Lawyers for Jerry Sandusky claim the defendant’s extensive correspondence with one of his accusers was likely a symptom of histrionic personality disorder, rather than an attempt to groom the boy…
A retired Pennsylvania judge who at last report was serving a 46-month federal prison sentence after being convicted in a $440,000 auto insurance fraud case has been disbarred.
Founded by two brothers in 1987, a small Maryland-based law firm known as Offit Kurman grew gradually over the years but still had only 10 attorneys in 2001.
As testimony continued Tuesday in the child sex-abuse case against Jerry Sandusky, witnesses for the prosecution offered details intended to bolster the accounts of young men who said they were…
Updated: A group of young men who have accused a former Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach of sexually abusing them as youths have a financial interest in the outcome…
A man who police say threatened to go get a firearm and blow the heads off of employees of a Pennsylvania law firm during a Thursday-afternoon visit is being held…
A former client of Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young sued the Philadelphia-based law firm on Monday, contending that errors in documenting some $200 million in loans to a subprime lender…
While major news organizations often opt not to name alleged victims of sex crimes, several of the witnesses in a high-profile case against former assistant Pennsylvania State University football coach…
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has relieved Justice Joan Orie Melvin of all judicial and administrative responsibilities, ordered her records secured and directed the court administrator…
A Pennsylvania appeals court has revived a bankruptcy trustee’s $500 million lawsuit against K&L Gates, finding that an Allegheny County trial court dismissed the malpractice case in error.
The former chief counsel for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia testified on Monday that church officials lied to him about a secret list of 35 priests suspected of abusing…
The law license of a Pennsylvania state senator has been suspended after her March conviction in a political corruption case, the Legal Profession Blog reports.
Updated: After class action lawyer Thomas Mellon Jr. was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he told staffers that the Doylestown, Pa., law firm he founded would cease to operate, according to…
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