The Legal Staff

March 26, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

Dechert Partner Was `First Amendment Champion`

By Jeff Blumenthal Of the Legal Staff

5 minute read

July 25, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

Many already view the 170-attorney labor and employment practice at Morgan Lewis Bockius as one of the top practices of its kind in the country. Now it hopes to leverage that profit center by offering its first-ever centrally organized employment training service with the addition of former Seyfarth Shaw partner Carol Merchasin.

By Jeff BlumenthalOf the Legal Staff

4 minute read

February 05, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Philadelphia jury has awarded $4.25 million to the survivors of an infant killed in an August 2004 accident involving a tractor-trailer.

By Asher Hawkins Of the Legal Staff

6 minute read

February 21, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

Considering the entire inheritance as income available for support is contrary to the purposes of the support guidelines, Justice Sandra Schultz Newman wrote for the majority in Humphreys v. DeRoss.

By Laurie StewartOf the Legal staff

6 minute read

August 14, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Luzerne County man injured while riding his motorcycle cannot seek underinsured motorist coverage from the insurance policy issued solely for his automobile, a three-judge panel of the Superior Court has ruled.

By Asher HawkinsOf the Legal Staff

6 minute read

July 25, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Property Casualty Insurance Guaranty Association can be liable for claims from multiple beneficiaries rather than solely for a single aggregate claim in a wrongful death case, a majority of the state Supreme Court has ruled.

By Danielle N. RodierOf the Legal Staff

7 minute read

January 31, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

She walks to the witness stand and begins questioning the doctor about the care he gave her injured client. The flustered witness stammers and begins to contradict his previous statements, and the advocate then knows the jury will decide in her client`s favor.

By Laurie Stewart Of the Legal Staff

6 minute read

January 10, 2008 | Law.com

The perennial blockade to securing a new building for the First Judicial District's Family Court has been marshaling the political will to pony up tens of millions of public dollars to fund a new site.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff

7 minute read

May 02, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

U.S. Circuit Judge Jane R. Roth has announced that she will take senior status effective May 31, creating a third vacancy on the 14-member 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

By Shannon P. Duffy and Elizabeth Bennett Of the Legal Staff

3 minute read

July 18, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

In the words of one of its attorneys, Goldbeck McCafferty McKeever is getting a class act in Edward Sparkman, who served for 15 years as the Chapter 13 standing trustee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

By Asher HawkinsOf the Legal Staff

4 minute read