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Will Increase in Number of Grand Juries Raise Conflicts?
Two major child sex-abuse scandals in Pennsylvania have highlighted the conflicts in attorney-client representation that can arise during grand jury proceedings between the interests of organizations under investigation by law enforcement and the interests of organizational employees, officers and agents also under investigation.Minority Recruitment: Progress Slow
It has been 11 years since Andre Dennis initiated a challenge as chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association to improve minority recruitment and retention numbers at the city's law firms. And there is some progress to report, but not much, according to a survey conducted earlier this summer by The Legal Intelligencer.Archdiocese Let Out of Abuse Suit
A Superior Court panel has affirmed the dismissal of a sex abuse lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church but refused to open a default judgment of $450,000 entered against the accused priest.View more book results for the query "*"
Justices Send Voter ID Case Back to Commonwealth Court
Challengers to Pennsylvania's new voter ID law won a round in the state Supreme Court when the justices sent the case - via a per curiam order - back to the Commonwealth Court, vacating that court's decision not to issue a preliminary injunction last month.3rd Circuit Sheds Further Light on Federal Pleading Standards
Last week the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals further clarified pleading standards under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8 in West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc. v. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.Berks Co. Housing Excavation Case Settles for $5 Mil.
The estate of an undocumented worker who was crushed to death under a collapsing housing excavation has settled for $5 million with the construction company that was excavating the land, one of the estate's attorneys has reported.Haines Asks Firm Leaders if They Represented Greene
Clifford E. Haines, attorney for former Philadelphia Housing Authority Executive Director Carl Greene, sent letters to five area law firm leaders Friday asking whether they have ever represented Greene in his individual capacity.Injured Worker Denied Full Reimbursement for Van Purchase
Even a claimant rendered quadriplegic in a workplace accident may not be fully reimbursed for the full costs of purchasing and retrofitting a wheelchair-accessible van, an en banc panel of the Commonwealth Court has ruled in a 5-2 decision.Trending Stories
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