After working for a little less than a year as the top lawyer for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, general counsel Roosevelt Hairston Jr. was terminated last month.
A Pennsylvania lawyer who lost an envelope stuffed with more than $1,400 in cash wants to personally thank the homeless man who found the money and gave it to police.
Convicted on only 12 of the 39 federal criminal counts he faced, a former Pennsylvania judge and his lawyers stepped outside a Scranton courthouse on Friday and proclaimed victory in…
A former president judge in Pennsylvania who was accused of pocketing millions in job-related payments and putting juveniles in jail for his own financial benefit has been convicted on 12…
A Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer was quick to intervene when he saw a woman who appeared ready to jump from the sixth floor of a York courthouse on Thursday.
Admitted fudging of the LSAT and GPA data provided by Villanova University to U.S. News & World Report won’t change its place in the magazine’s prior law school rankings.
A 78-year old dementia patient has been charged with aggravated assault in the death of another resident at the Pennsylvania nursing home where they lived.
Philadelphia jurors have acquitted a former Temple third-year law student who shot a onetime Villanova lacrosse star six times in a January 2010 confrontation that was caught on videotape.
An assistant public defender has been granted a temporary protective order against a Pennsylvania judge with whom she works at the York County Judicial Center.
A barroom brawl between two partners of the Beasley Firm—witnessed by two other partners, including the firm’s managing partner—was the impetus for a recent announcement that one of the partners…
Rejecting a Pennsylvania judge’s argument that the state’s highest court lacked the power to suspend her with pay prior to a hearing on the merits of its case against her,…
Injured during a wrestling practice last month, a 16-year-old boy in Pennsylvania needs surgery on his spine that his parents have nixed, a state-court jurist has decided.
At first, then-Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. and a senior colleague in Luzerne County, Pa., allegedly laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks they received for sending juveniles to jail…
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