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  • Allied World Ins. Co. v. Lamb McErlane, P.C.

    Publication Date: 2018-03-20
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Insurance | Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0292

    Insurer was entitled to judgment on the pleadings in action over legal malpractice insurance because law firm, acting for an estate, had written notice of the claim against it before it was insured by insurer where beneficiaries of estate provided written notice that they were seeking to make the law firm return payments for improperly performed legal services more than a year before insurer agreed to insure law firm.

  • Roverano v. John Crane

    Publication Date: 2018-01-23
    Practice Area: Toxic Torts
    Industry: Energy | Manufacturing
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-0072

    Trial court did not err in defining factual cause in the jury instructions in appellees action asserting exposure to appellants asbestos products cause his lung cancer but did err in holding that the fair share act did not apply to the case because the act explicitly applied to actions for strict liability. Reversed in part and affirmed in part

  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Kovalcin

    Publication Date: 2017-12-19
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 17-1835

    Respondent was suspended for a year and a day for failing to cooperate with his prior firm partner in dissolving the firm and in abandoning the firm, for his inability to account for $10,000 of client funds owed to clients in his cases in the firms IOLTA account and neglect of client matters by failure to respond to preliminary objections in one case and by failing to respond to motions before the bankruptcy court in another case, by failing to obtain admission to practice before the bankruptcy court or secure local counsel, failing

  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Barkley

    Publication Date: 2017-12-05
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 17-1773

    Respondent was suspended for two years because he was transferred to inactive status in 2002 and administratively suspended in 2010 but offered to provide legal services in immigration matters in Utah, where he was not licensed to practice, and engaged in the unauthorized practice of law in Utah, misrepresented to clients that he was an attorney who could handle immigration issues, accepted payment for legal services, failed to provide those services and failed to contact his clients or refund their fees.

  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Crawford

    Publication Date: 2017-12-05
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: 17-1774

    Respondent was disbarred for charging excessive fees, failing to deposit those fees into a trust or IOLTA account; neglecting clients matters, failing to refund unearned or unused fees, making direct and blatant misrepresentations to his clients about expenditures; for inadequate and unprofessional representation by not filing his appearance in a timely fashion and failing to file a pre-trial statement, attend the pre-trial con-ference or make any effort to obtain reports or depose witnesses for trial; failing to file a brief after f

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  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Kotsopoulos

    Publication Date: 2017-11-21
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: 17-1716

    Respondent was suspended for one year for filing an action that had no basis in law and in which he was not acting on behalf of a specific client when he filed a petition for appointment of plenary guardian for someone who had been committed to a state hospital and was incapacitated and falsely alleged that a social worker at the hospital was the petitioner and that he was the attorney for the petitioner but there was no social worker by that name and no one from the hospital authorized respondent to file the petition and respondent a

  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2017-11-14
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: 17-1693

    Respondent filed a verified statement of resignation and was disbarred on consent after he pled guilty to one count of travel and use of interstate facilities to promote and facilitate bribery and admitted to accepting bribes in violation of the Hobbs Act and honest services wire fraud, scheming to defraud the nursing home where his mother resided, scheming to defraud a political action committee (wire fraud) and the city of Philadelphia and the HIDTA program (wire fraud and mail fraud).

  • In the Matter of Doherty

    Publication Date: 2017-11-14
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 17-1689

    Respondents petition for reinstatement was granted after the court accepted his resignation and disbarred him on consent based on his criminal conviction for mail fraud, bankruptcy fraud and money laundering arising from a program of real property sales and lease-back transactions intended to assist homeowners facing foreclosure because he fully acknowledged his wrongdoing, demonstrated genuine re-morse and sorrow, underwent significant rehabilitation during his disbarment, set aside funds for restitution, worked as a paralegal and e

  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. McKee

    Publication Date: 2017-11-07
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Aerospace | Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 171671

    Respondent was suspended for two years for professional misconduct in ten separate matters.

  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Pellegrino

    Publication Date: 2017-10-31
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 17-1622

    Respondent was suspended for six months for the unauthorized practice of law by providing advice concerning Federal securities regulation and compliance to her employer after she registered as voluntarily inactive in 1998.