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…
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has imposed a 30-month suspension on a former associate at Cozen O’Connor accused of false billing while at the law firm and continuing to practice law…
Jury selection took place Monday and opening arguments began Tuesday in the trial of a 16-year-old being prosecuted as an adult in Pennsylvania in the slaying of a 28-year-old law…
A lawyer who obtained a $25,000 loan from a matrimonial client has been disbarred after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court determined that he failed to reveal a number of pertinent issues…
A prominent lawyer in Pennsylvania is reportedly under investigation for running an alleged Ponzi scheme that victimized possibly dozens of people after his son, a Luzerne County judge, told authorities…
Sentenced today to five years in federal prison for fleecing at least 10 victims, including his clients, then-law partner and family members of $2.1 million between 2005 and 2008, a…
A federal investigation of a former Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach appears to be taking a different tack than the state probe that has already resulted in a long…
After 20 years in practice as a physician, a Pennsylvania doctor turned to a new career as an attorney after his arrest five years ago on a prescription drug charge.
A witness in the latest political corruption trial of a former Pennsylvania state representative testified today that his law firm got a $132,000 no-bid contract, representing about $4,000 per month…
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