The Legal Staff

July 16, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

There has been a leadership change in Wolf Block Schorr Solis-Cohen's once mighty bankruptcy group, as former practice chairman Paul Brenman has left for Connecticut-based General Electric Capital Commercial Equipment Financing.

By Jeff BlumenthalOf the Legal Staff

4 minute read

February 06, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

When evaluating the due process considerations of a tax, a court must examine the fiscal relation of the tax to the protection, opportunities and benefits given in return, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.

By Ruth Bryna Cohen Of the Legal Staff

5 minute read

August 15, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

Things can get hot when lawyers get together, but how often do they get thermal? That's exactly what happened when 15 Reed Smith staff members from both sides of the Atlantic, including a partner and a legal secretary from the firm's Philadelphia office, met in Iceland last month for a three-day hiking trip to raise money for an international charity.

By Asher HawkinsOf the Legal Staff

6 minute read

November 21, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

Although Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Russell M. Nigro has lost the battle to keep his job for another 10 years, it seems that few battles loom ahead for the next phase of his professional life.

By Gina Passarella And Asher Hawkins Of the Legal Staff

5 minute read

July 24, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pepper Hamilton has seemingly found a go-to source for its lateral attorney needs: Dechert.

By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff

4 minute read

April 05, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Our goal in picking the "Diverse Attorneys of the Year" was to recognize those minority lawyers who made significant contributions to the practice of law between our last Diversity supplement in 2009 and this year.

By The Legal Staff

23 minute read

August 18, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

Philadelphia got lucky Thursday afternoon, enjoying normal electric service even as surrounding areas of the Northeast were in a blackout. But what would happen to local courts if a similar power outage were to strike here?

By Asher HawkinsOf the Legal Staff

4 minute read

August 08, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

Philadelphia employers and city officials have long bemoaned the brain drain of local university graduates to larger, flashier cities, not to mention the lack of attraction the city holds for recent degree recipients who completed their studies in other parts of the country.

By Asher HawkinsOf the Legal Staff

8 minute read

March 14, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Commonwealth Court has ruled that a man who refused chemical blood-alcohol testing will lose his driver`s license even though the airport police officer who stopped the driver arrested him outside the officer`s territorial jurisdiction.

By Lori litchman Of the Legal Staff

4 minute read

July 14, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

What does a large-firm trusts and estates partner do if his client base begins to balk at increasingly high billing rates? If you are 19-year Dechert veteran Kevin Gilboy, you leave the firm and join two old friends at a venerable trusts and estates boutique.

By Jeff BlumenthalOf the Legal Staff

4 minute read