An unemployed immigration attorney living with his parents in the Pittsburgh suburbs apparently snapped in April 2000, shooting six people he reportedly targeted because of their racial, ethnic or religious…
A New York lawyer who has until now worked in high-level managerial roles at well-known financial institutions has accepted her first law firm job: as head of a new practice…
An attorney whose attendance record as a Pennsylvania magisterial district judge was “beyond egregious” violated both the rules for district judges and the state constitution, the Pennsylvania Court of Judicial…
Faced with the potential expense and inconvenience of having to look far afield for potential jurors unfamiliar with a high-profile child-murder case, a Pennsylvania judge came up with an innovative…
A Pennsylvania lawyer who is currently a Republican state senator and is the sister of a state supreme court justice has been criminally charged for allegedly faking evidence in an…
Corrected: An admittedly angry criminal defense attorney has been charged with a misdemeanor concerning an altercation he had with a female prosecutor outside a Pennsylvania district judge’s courtroom.
After 30 years at the University of Pittsburgh, longtime tenured tax law professor William Brown moved to Duquesne University in 2000, where he served as director of the business school’s…
Nixing a 55-month fraud sentence for a powerful former Pennsylvania senator and attorney that sparked public outrage, an appeals court today found a federal district judge had abused his discretion…
Five-month-old Ryan Baurley’s death in 1992 was originally attributed to sudden infant death syndrome, despite alcohol in the child’s blood and bruising to his brain and larynx.
An angry juvenile court judge yesterday told two teenagers and an 11-year-old boy that their “actions, behavior, and attitude” concerning a July 29 flash mob attack by a large group…
Updated: A Pennsylvania magisterial judge who handed out condom-stuffed acorns to two women he encountered near the site of a continuing education class he was attending will not be disciplined…
Otherwise a competent and respected lawyer, Matthew Eshelman had one major Achilles heel, according to a disciplinary panel report: He loved to play video games.
A venerable Pennsylvania-based business law firm has opened a new office in Wilmington, Del. It is expected to have a bankruptcy focus, a law firm press release…
A Duane Morris partner who served on the board of governors for the U.S. Postal Service is defending his conduct after being accused of improperly pushing postal officials to consider…
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