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No City Council Hearings on Slashed Budget

Posted on August 24, 2009
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Philadelphia City Council will not hold hearings on a revised budget plan that will slash city services from cops on the street to the city courthouses being open. Much of city government will...

Movie Studios See Red

Posted on August 20, 2009
Several years ago, I moved into a new home and I set out for a walk. I quickly discovered, just two blocks away, a large self-service vending machine on a street corner. The machine seemed to have everything I could...

City's Criminal Justice Leaders Push for Budget Action in Harrisburg

Posted on August 19, 2009
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff In an effort to ratchet up the sense of urgency in Harrisburg on a sales tax and pension recalculation bill that would let the city close a yawning budget gap, Mayor Michael A....

U.S. Supreme Court Imposes Tougher Hurdle for ADEA Plaintiffs

Posted on August 19, 2009
In an opinion issued near the end of its most recent term, the U.S. Supreme Court continued its move to the right, increasing the evidentiary burden on age discrimination plaintiffs seeking recovery from their employers. Gross v. FBL Financial Services...

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City Still Must Prepare Worst-Case Budget By End of Month

Posted on August 18, 2009
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff The city must still prepare a new five-year balanced budget involving severe cuts in spending by the end of August. State Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Delaware, asked the state authority that approves...

Federal Western District Court Dismisses Bad Faith Case on Statute of Limitations Grounds

Posted on August 17, 2009
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania has recently ruled that the two-year statute of limitations applicable to first-party bad faith actions under 42 Pa.C.S.A. � 8371 barred claims by bad faith plaintiffs bringing a claim more...

City Budget Delay in Harrisburg Costs Law Department $1.3 Million

Posted on August 17, 2009
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Without approval from Harrisburg for a city sales tax and pension recalculation bill, Mayor Michael A. Nutter said City Hall is going forward with $20 million in spending cuts because it expects to...

Top Vote-Getters in Phila. Primary Get Judicial Nominations

Posted on August 14, 2009
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Gov. Edward G. Rendell has nominated two judicial candidates running for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas to fill vacancies on the same court. Robert P. Coleman, an associate with Segal McCambridge Singer...

'Strong Basis In Evidence' ? Supreme Court Establishes New Standard For Discard Of Administered Promotional Examinations Part 2

Posted on August 12, 2009
In Ricci, the U.S. Supreme Court similarly rejected New Haven?s argument that its ?good faith? belief in disparate impact liability should be sufficient to justify its disparate treatment of the white firefighters. The court noted that this approach would ?encourage...

Federal Judge Upholds $14 Mil. Award for Wrongfully Convicted Man

Posted on August 11, 2009
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a $14 million jury award to a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death.The ruling marks the latest chapter in a...

Best Firms to Work for Women List Released

Posted on August 11, 2009
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff With all eyes on cost-saving possibilities, Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers are advocating now as the time to push through work-life balance initiatives as a way to retain talent and save through...

?Strong Basis In Evidence' ? High Court Establishes New Standard For Discard Of Administered Promotional Examinations

Posted on August 10, 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court?s recent decision in Ricci v. DeStefano generated significant headlines and interest as a result of its subject matter (white firefighters alleging discrimination in promotional testing) as well as its impact on the confirmation hearings of U...

Carlson Resigns as U.S. Attorney, Interim Named

Posted on August 10, 2009
By Leo Strupczewski Of the Legal Staff Martin C. Carlson, the acting U.S. attorney who has overseen the federal corruption probe in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties, has resigned. Carlson, whose last day was Aug. 8, was succeeded by Dennis C....

Reed Smith Settles Into New Digs

Posted on August 10, 2009
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff After an intense weekend move, George Stewart, managing partner of Reed Smith?s Pittsburgh office, was hoping for only three things come Monday morning -- workable phones, computers and plumbing. He said he got...

Bar Association Demands City Pay Lawyers Their Fees

Posted on August 07, 2009
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Philadelphia Bar Association Chancellor Sayde Ladov called upon Mayor Michael Nutter earlier this week to immediately resume payments to lawyers who sit as civil arbitrators and take court-appointed counsel cases in the First...

Vanaskie Tapped for Final 3rd Circuit Seat

Posted on August 07, 2009
By Shannon P. Duffy U.S. Courthouse Correspondent The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals may soon have its full compliment of 14 active judges now that President Obama has nominated U.S. District Judge Thomas I. Vanaskie, a 15-year veteran of...

Watch What You Tweet

Posted on August 06, 2009
My mother, like most every mother, used to say, ?If you can?t say anything nice, don?t say anything at all.? When she said that, she was thinking about what I said in person or over the phone, not electronically. And...

Will the Senate Wait on the Employee Free Choice Act until 2010?

Posted on August 05, 2009
With Twitter and several blogs buzzing, The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the U.S. Senate may not hold a vote until 2010 on one of the most lobbied bills of all time, the controversial Employee Free Choice Act....

Merck, Schering-Plough Settle Vytorin Suits

Posted on August 05, 2009
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff Pharmaceutical companies Merck and Schering-Plough said Wednesday the two companies agreed to pay $41.5 million to settle suits that the companies? marketing of cholesterol-lowering drugs Vytorin and Zetia was misleading...

Philadelphia's Budget Measures Must Wait for State Budget Passage, Senate Insiders Say

Posted on August 03, 2009
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff The city's budget process remains in suspended animation. And, if the Senate holds to a timetable described by key aides to the leadership, it may be there for quite some time. Even though...

Shorter Law Firm Names ? The Debate Continues

Posted on July 31, 2009
By Gina F. Rubel Just recently, the issue about shorter law firm names came up in a listserv discussion hosted by the Legal Marketing Association. The interesting thing is that this issue has been coming up for years. In fact,...

Will the Department of Justice Help You Get an iPhone?

Posted on July 31, 2009
On July 6, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department?s Antitrust Division is investigating the wireless telephone industry, looking at least in part at the agreements that give certain wireless carriers exclusive rights to certain devices...

Criminals I Have Known

Posted on July 27, 2009
Not the high-class kind with a mask and a gun, but the financial type. Much has been written about the psychology of people like Bernard Madoff, who apparently can invite people to invest with them in the knowledge that their...

Dickie McCamey Hosts CLE Webinar on Bad Faith

Posted on July 24, 2009
On July 15, I participated in a panel webinar presentation broadcast from our Pittsburgh office covering recent developments in Pennsylvania bad faith law. Attorney Robert Marino, chairman of the firm?s insurance law practice group, and David Cole, executive director of...

Court Halts Payment of Counsel and Arbitrator Fees

Posted on July 23, 2009
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff Te First Judicial District has announced that it will be delaying payment to its vendors, including attorneys who take court-appointed counsel cases and serve as arbitrators in the arbitration center. The FJD's announcement...

City Halts Payment of Counsel and Arbitrator Fees

Posted on July 23, 2009
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff The First Judicial District has issued a notice to the bar that the city of Philadelphia has begun to delay payment to its vendors, including attorneys who take court-appointed counsel cases and serve...

Change is Predicted in Census Prisoner Count

Posted on July 22, 2009
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff The 2010 census will be the last to count inmates at their place of incarceration instead of their home communities, an advocate for changing where the U.S. census counts the incarcerated predicted at...

Cozen O'Connor Re-elects Decker to CEO Post

Posted on July 22, 2009
By Gina Passarella Of the Legal Staff Cozen O'Connor President and CEO Thomas A. "Tad" Decker will serve a second term in the post. The firm's board unanimously re-elected him to the role, Cozen O'Connor said in a statement. The...

Keeping It Organized in Jury Selection Part 2: Juror Questionnaires

Posted on July 22, 2009
As discussed in the last post, keeping yourself organized is the first priority in any jury selection process. It is critical to keep your mind clear and focused on the key information you need about potential jurors. Today, I will...

Ships Passing in the Night

Posted on July 21, 2009
When a U.S. Supreme Court opinion is not unanimous, the majority and dissenting justices often disagree over the meaning and effect of relevant precedent. Indeed, the justices sometimes engage in a debate right in their respective opinions, with the dissent...

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