A woman allegedly held captive and abused for a decade by an aunt who is a convicted killer has filed a civil rights suit against the city of Philadelphia and…
As congressional support builds for a federal internet sales tax law, online shoppers in Pennsylvania and California will pony up to the taxman next month.
Despite widespread publicity about law firms targeted in Internet and email scams that have siphoned five- and six-figure sums out of their bank accounts, some are still falling victim to…
A July hiring surge among Pennsylvania law firms featured an unusual trend–lateral lawyers moving back into private practice from in-house counsel positions.
There’s a potential legal battle brewing in Philadelphia, where a state-court judge, as a Philadelphia Daily News columnist puts it, recently issued an unusual order that…
An attorney representing a Pennsylvania lawyer in a federal racketeering case concerning the claimed takeover and looting of a Texas-based mortgage company is seeking to sever his client’s trial from…
Former Penn State president Graham Spanier defended his response to allegations against Jerry Sandusky in a letter to university trustees that criticized the school’s then-general counsel for failing to hire…
The governing body of college sports declined to impose a so-called “death penalty” on Pennsylvania State University by shutting down its entire football program as a punishment for the institution’s…
Sadly, institutional cover-ups concerning suspected or actual sexual abuse of minors are not a rarity. But what is unusual is the scathing internal report made to Pennsylvania State University’s board…
Seeking to determine whether defense counsel for a former Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach leaked material covered by a gag order, the out-of-county judge who oversaw the high-profile trial…
With violent crimes on the increase this year in Philadelphia and other major cities, the so-called stop-and-frisk is seen by many as a standard tool to use to crack down…
When attorney Mikel D. Jones, obtained a multimillion-dollar credit line from a New York venture capital firm in 2006, he agreed to use the money on legitimate law firm expenses.
In the wake of convictions Friday in two separate high-profile child sex-abuse cases in a single state involving powerful and revered institutions, observers are suggesting that a new era of…
Despite being found guilty by a Pennsylvania jury Friday night on 45 of the 48 counts he was facing in a child sex-abuse case, Jerry Sandusky isn’t admitting any wrongdoing.
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