Daily Report Online | Commentary
By Shari L. Klevens and Alanna Clair | June 18, 2018
Information that is protected as “confidential” is generally broader than what is considered “privileged.” As confirmed by the opinion, confidential information can include the client's identity.
The Legal Intelligencer | Filing Fanatics|News
By Max Mitchell | June 18, 2018
The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office is seeking to file an amicus brief supporting Frank Fina in the ex-prosecutor's fight against disciplinary charges.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Ellen C. Brotman | June 15, 2018
As lawyers watching the spectacle of the investigations surrounding the Trump administration, we get to sit in the good seats. We understand the rules of the game and we can follow the action.
By Samantha Joseph | June 14, 2018
"I had never seen a case as simple as a bounced-check case go as weirdly and badly as this one," said attorney George Gaskell, who helped a client win a malpractice suit against a Coral Springs lawyer.
The Legal Intelligencer | Expert Opinion
By Samuel C. Stretton | June 14, 2018
Is there a concern with judicial independence in Pennsylvania? I see articles constantly about problems with the judiciary because of elections. What has the organized bar done?
By Greg Land | June 14, 2018
Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young partner H. Lane Young built a reputation as a tireless litigator and trial lawyer defending legal malpractice, toxic tort and catastrophic injury cases during his 42 years with the firm.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Matthew B. Weisberg | June 14, 2018
Attorney-client and work-product privileges are commonly viewed as sacrosanct. Whether as a matter of ethics, contract, or common law, these privileges—if violated—may inure to both attorney and client even collateral damage (for example, see the current Sandusky attorney disciplinary prosecutions).
By R. Robin McDonald | June 13, 2018
A three-judge panel of the Georgia Court of Appeals overturned a Fulton County trial judge's dismissal of a lawsuit against Dentons that claimed the firm unjustly enriched itself by accepting more than $1.3 million in legal fees from the trusts of Atlanta industrialist and philanthropist Walter Bunzl to defend the embattled trustee against a suit by Bunzl heirs.
By Dan Packel | June 11, 2018
The global firm and its Brazilian affiliate stand accused of putting a $3.18 billion settlement in jeopardy by adding a lawyer still employed as a federal prosecutor to a conglomerate's defense team.
By Charles Toutant | June 11, 2018
A New Jersey appeals court has ordered further proceedings for one plaintiff who claimed in a legal malpractice suit that the firm of Leeds, Morelli & Brown accepted bonuses for steering its clients into arbitration of an employment dispute with the Prudential Insurance Co.
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