A Philadelphia traffic judge who sought campaign donations at a motorcycle club rally violated ethics rules by implying the cash would buy favorable treatment, an ethics board has found.
Philadelphia law firms have escaped the brunt of the economic downturn since they did not focus on securitization and real estate finance, the hardest-hit practice areas. But some firm leaders…
A retired judge in Pennsylvania was convicted today of mail fraud and money laundering in connection with the injuries he claimed to have suffered in a 2001 auto accident.
Richard Brown never seemed like a great candidate for a physician’s license. A lackluster student in high school and college, he attended several foreign institutions before getting a medical degree.
A proposal to put a 38-foot mural promoting the theme of American justice on the side of a building in an upscale neighborhood in Philadelphia has proven controversial.
An attorney who is also a former councilman in the Pennsylvania town of O’Hara has been disbarred, after admittedly setting his estranged wife’s house on fire because it was too…
Pennsylvania’s Court of Judicial Discipline has found that a county judge routinely belittled her staff, used court personnel to clean her home and created a “war”-like atmosphere with other judges.
A federal judge in Philadelphia questioned why a computer hacker was not charged with child pornography even though had had about 1,000 sexual images of children on his computer.
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