A retired Pennsylvania judge has been put on probation after pleading no contest to carrying a concealed firearm without a permit during a fray with his father-in-law in November 2006.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court hears arguments today on whether a municipal court judge should be removed from office because of her guilty plea 24 years ago to using a fake…
U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno of Philadelphia has tallied the number of times a litigant dropped the F-word or a variant in a deposition—it was 73 times—and…
Updated: After notifying 13 real estate and finance associates last week that they were being laid off, apparently because of a slowing economy, Dechert has reportedly changed its mind.
Federal prosecutors claim in court documents that several plaintiffs class action law firms secretly paid an expert witness on a contingency basis, giving him an incentive to inflate shareholders’ damages.
After spending about 20 years in prison for shooting a Philadelphia police officer responding to a break-in call in 1966, William Barnes seemingly had paid his debt to society.
Duane Morris has won a $1.6 million malpractice suit that accused it of failing to provide security in a settlement agreement negotiated for a former client.
Lawyers for Duane Morris and a former client differed in closing arguments yesterday on who should be blamed for his inability to collect money promised in a settlement agreement.
For 17 years, a Philadelphia man has trekked to traffic court almost annually to explain that he is not his twin brother, after receiving threats that his Pennsylvania driver’s license…
Duane Morris maintained in opening statements this week that it didn’t commit malpractice by failing to include a security guarantee in a settlement agreement it drafted for a client, the…
Morgan Lewis & Bockius has won a $20 million breach of contract case that claimed the law firm gave clients bad advice about sales to Cuba in violation of a…
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