Criminally charged with allowing their disabled 14-year-old daughter to die from neglect, a Pennsylvania couple have sued child welfare agencies and workers for damages over her death.
A settlement requiring a bankruptcy trustee in Pittsburgh to refrain from criticizing Countrywide Financial Corp. is being criticized by the U.S. Justice Department.
A Pennsylvania nonprofit that claims it was overbilled by Reed Smith in a routine employment discrimination defense that was originally estimated at $50,000 and eventually racked up…
A Pennsylvania lawyer who got media attention for helping companies fight off labor unions has resigned from the bar after accusations that he submitted false expense reports to his law…
A former suburban Philadelphia prosecutor whose girlfriend died last year as he drove away during a drunken argument has been acquitted of vehicular homicide, but found guilty of lesser charges.
The neighbors had been more or less tolerating 100 or so bronze fountains, mermaids and other figures, centered around a 12-foot Neptune, in Gerald and John Hubbs’ 50-foot-wide all-concrete front…
An “obsessed” former colleague of a Philadelphia television news anchor who allegedly illegally hacked into her e-mail and helped get her fired from her job by revealing personal information to…
It’s still not official. But Philadelphia-based WolfBlock and Miami’s Akerman Senterfitt are reportedly about to merge, creating an 800-plus attorney firm.
The Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association is seeking a change in a state law that allowed a defense lawyer to obtain prosecutors’ cell phone records.
In a major political corruption case that is still being investigated, the Pennsylvania attorney general has announced charges against 12 Democratic insiders in the state’s capital of Harrisburg, including a…
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