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  • Commonwealth v. Pimentel-Caban

    Publication Date: 2018-11-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Steinberg
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-1352

    There was no abuse of discretion in proceeding with defendant's trial on charges arising from the shooting death of a victim and denying him a mistrial based on counsel's alleged "ethical dilemma" since defendant consented to counsel's continued representation. The court recommended affirmance of its order denying defendant post-conviction relief.

  • Burns v. Silverang, Donohoe, Rosenzweig & Haltzman, LLC

    Publication Date: 2018-11-20
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Legal Services | Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Glazer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-1349

    The discovery rule did not apply to plaintiff's tort claims where he was aware of his injuries as of the closing date of a real estate transaction. State trade practices law only applied to matters involving family, personal or household purposes, so it was not applicable to this commercial transaction.

  • Commonwealth v. Velazquez

    Publication Date: 2018-11-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Immigration Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Adams County
    Judge: Judge Wagner
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-1340

    Where the record clearly demonstrated that the course of action chosen by defense counsel had no reasonable basis to effectuate defendant's interest, including avoiding deportation, defendant's plea entered upon counsel's advice was not knowing and voluntary. The court granted defendant's petition for post-conviction relief.

  • Yablonski v. Keevican Weiss Bauerle & Hirsch LLC

    Publication Date: 2018-10-30
    Practice Area: Attorney Rates and Arrangements | Wage and Hour Litigation
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Strassburger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-1298

    Trial court did not err in awarding past due salary and liquidated damages under the WPCL to attorney who had an agreement with law firm for a salary which firm failed to pay because despite firm's allegation that attorney violated his duties of loyalty, diligence, good faith and promptness, attorney's days out of the office did not impact firm's revenue, there was no policy prohibiting working from home and firm's attempt to renegotiate the terms of plaintiff's contract belied the claim that firm believed he had constructively termin

  • Phinisee v. Friewald

    Publication Date: 2018-10-16
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Legal Services | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Rufe
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-1244

    Mother's motion for summary judgment was denied in her action against five attorneys stemming from her dissatisfaction with the settlement of a medical malpractice case based on harm to her daughter because mother, as a non-attorney proceeding pro se, could not represent her minor daughter or raise claims on her daughter's behalf, the attorneys were not state actors subject to §1983 liability and claim preclusion barred her legal malpractice claims but she was granted leave to amend if she could state a basis for subject matter jurisd

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  • Mozingo v. Oil States Energy Serv., LLC et al

    Publication Date: 2018-10-02
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation
    Industry: Energy | Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
    Judge: District Judge Kearney
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-1177

    The district court based the reasonableness of hourly rates for attorneys who litigated this wage dispute case on a blended rate for attorneys from the western district of Pennsylvania, refusing to find the hourly billing rates for attorneys from Washington, D.C. helpful. The court granted plaintiffs' application for attorney fees.

  • Perez v. Mathis et al

    Publication Date: 2018-10-02
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-1118

    The court allowed plaintiff to present a claim for lost punitive damages in this legal malpractice suit where he was successful in an underlying lawsuit with substitute counsel and may have recovered on a bad faith claim in that suit but for counsel's alleged negligence in withdrawing it. The court denied defendants' preliminary objections.

  • Grezak v. Ropes & Gray LLP

    Publication Date: 2018-09-25
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Government | Litigation
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
    Judge: District Judge Mannion
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-1148

    Plaintiff objected to the magistrate judge's report in response to defendants' motions to dismiss plaintiff's pro se action asserting defendants conducted secret ex parte communication with a New York state judge, tampered with evidence, conspired to kidnap plaintiff, violated her fourth amendment privacy rights and infringed her familial association rights in violation of the fourteenth amendment but the court was unable to ascertain any legally sufficient objections to the magistrate's judge's recommendations that defendants' motion

  • Clemens v. N.Y. Central Mut. Fire Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2018-09-25
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Fee Disputes | Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Insurance | Legal Services
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Greenaway
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-1130

    In this precedential case, the appellate court concluded that district courts have the discretion to deny a fee request in its entirety where the request amount is "outrageously excessive" under the circumstances; thus, the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying plaintiffs $950,000 in fees on their $100,000 in punitive damages award. The appellate court affirmed an order denying plaintiffs' request for attorney fees.

  • Commonwealth v. Durrett King

    Publication Date: 2018-09-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-1072

    Defendant raised a meritorious ineffective assistance of counsel claim where counsel failed to seek a jury instruction on a defense to the crime of fleeing or attempt to elude police relating to unmarked police cars where the police car involved, and driven by plain clothes detectives, did not display any identifying decals or graphics. The appellate court vacated an order denying defendant Post Conviction Relief Act relief and remanded for a hearing.