Zack Needles

December 08, 2010 | Law.com

The Legal Intelligencer's fourth annual diversity survey of Pennsylvania's 24 largest plaintiffs firms showed no improvement in the number of female attorneys they employ and only a slight improvement regarding minority attorneys, but firm leaders say they're trying for improvement.

By Zack Needles

7 minute read

April 13, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Geographic growth may not be at the forefront of firm leaders' minds right now, but that doesn't mean they've stopped thinking about it.

By Zack Needles

5 minute read

April 13, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

The provisions of a written will can be amended by the creation of a joint bank account, in which the right of survivorship is inherent, the state Supreme Court has unanimously ruled.

By Zack Needles

8 minute read

July 09, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

Women helping women. That was a recurring theme of the panel titled "Best Practices for the Retention and Promotion of Women Lawyers: What You Can Learn from Corporate Diversity Efforts" that closed out the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's first Women in the Profession Summit in June.

By Zack Needles

4 minute read

May 06, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Law schools across the country may soon feel the push toward making their curricula more real world oriented, according to one panel of law school deans.

By Zack Needles

6 minute read

March 18, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

A divided en banc Commonwealth Court panel skirted a complex civil rights issue in deciding that a woman in an unmarried same-sex couple was ineligible to receive unemployment compensation benefits after she quit her job to follow her partner to Florida.

By Zack Needles

6 minute read

February 22, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

A pipe-layer whose genital area and lower extremities were impaled when he was crushed between the arm of an excavator machine and a cement manhole has settled with the owner and developer of the construction site and an engineering company responsible for safety on the site for $8.2 million in Philadelphia.

By Zack Needles

5 minute read

July 08, 2008 | Law.com

Pittsburgh-based Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti has named a CPA as its first chief administrative officer. And according to consultant Joel A. Rose, hiring a nonlawyer to manage a firm is nothing new for midsize and small firms. He says letting lawyers practice law while management professionals handle day-to-day firm administration makes financial sense because the typical administrator's salary is easily offset by the amount of revenue generated by an extra partner who is free to bill.

By Zack Needles

4 minute read

December 28, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

In November, according to media reports, former defense attorney Mark F. Morrison was wheeled into a Fayette County courtroom on a gurney wearing a surgical mask for his competency hearing.

By By Zack Needles

6 minute read

May 19, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office announced Monday that a former paralegal of Norristown, Pa.-based firm High Swartz was arrested for allegedly stealing more than $100,000 from the firm and using the money to pay restitution in a case where she has been found guilty of stealing $285,000 from a New York law firm.

By Zack Needles

4 minute read