Max Mitchell

October 24, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A partial title search was not enough for an energy company to meet its due diligence burden to overcome a bad-faith trespass claim, the state Superior Court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

October 23, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Superior Court has reversed a $210,000 award a Philadelphia trial judge ordered attorney Donald E. Haviland Jr. to pay his former firm, Kline & Specter, over failure to pay referral fees from cases he took with him when he left the firm in 2006.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

October 22, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

While the Pennsylvania Supreme Court expects the state's Judicial Conduct Board to investigate and determine whether to charge Justice Seamus P. McCaffery within 30 days, lawyers said meeting the deadline might be an unrealistic goal for the modestly-staffed disciplinary body.

By P.J. D'Annunzio 
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6 minute read

October 21, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus P. McCaffery has been suspended by his peers on the court based on the recent pornographic email scandal as well as other allegations of wrongdoing involving referral fees paid to his wife and attempts to "exert influence" over judicial assignments.

By P.J. D'Annunzio and Max Mitchell

9 minute read

October 21, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A split between state and federal courts has begun to emerge over the authority of the mortgage registry company MERS, according to several attorneys who work in the field.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

October 21, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Business for law firms in Harrisburg and Lancaster has been improving at a steady pace, but an additional opportunity has presented itself for those willing to venture south.

By Lizzy McLellan and Max Mitchell

6 minute read

October 21, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

According to the pretrial memorandum of plaintiff Joseph W. Consonery Jr., he was incarcerated on Feb. 6, 2009, at the Washington County Correctional Facility. On that day, he told a nurse he had an infected tooth and he needed to see a dentist, the memo said. Days later, Consonery's tooth "snapped," which led to ongoing bleeding, the memo said.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

October 21, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Commonwealth Court has reinstated a personal injury suit against a school because the record lacked sufficient information about how an accordian-style partition was secured to school property to justify the application of governmental immunity.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

October 21, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

With new incentives for whistleblowers and high-profile awards making headlines, an increasing number of plaintiffs attorneys are looking to expand into the often-difficult qui tam arena.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

October 21, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on whether juries should be able to determine if spreading a fertilizer made from recycled sewage sludge, known as biosolids, constitutes a "normal agricultural practice."

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read