The Pennsylvania Superior Court on Friday sided with Kline & Specter in the firm’s 15-year dispute with its former class action department leader, Donald Haviland, affirming a trial court ruling that the attorney must pay his share of the arbitration fees in his protracted break-up with the personal injury firm.

Haviland had sought to avoid paying $20,730 in fees based on his allegation of bias against one of the arbitrators, retired Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas of Judge Mark Bernstein, who has been subject to repeated recusal attempts by Haviland.

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