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Recent News About Pennsylvania Bar Association
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Abington Heights High School in Lackawanna County won the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Statewide High School Mock Trial Competition, which took place March 22-23 at the Dauphin County Courthouse in Harrisburg.
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The Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) presented County Bar Recognition Awards to 24 local bar associations during the 58th Annual Conference of County Bar Leaders on March 1 in Gettysburg.
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Eric L. Brossman, partner at Bybel Rutledge LLP, Lemoyne, received the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) W. Edward Sell/William H. Clark Jr. Business Lawyer Award during the 2023 Business Law Institute on Oct. 17 in Philadelphia.
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The PBA is proud to again join with the American Bar Association in 2023 to encourage you to plan and participate in the celebration.
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Karen Romano is Chief Deputy Attorney General in charge of the Civil Litigation Section of the Office of Attorney General (OAG) where she oversees a team of 27 litigators.
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Speaker: Justice Christine Donohue, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Topic: Project LITIGATE - Making Room for Young Lawyers Justice Christine Donohue will discuss Project LITIGATE, mentoring younger lawyers and looking forward.
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Together with the Allegheny County Bar Foundation (ACBF), Duquesne University Kline School of Law Tribone Center for Clinical Education and LIFE Pittsburgh, the PBA Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section is participating in a virtual pro bono clinic for low-income clients on Friday, September 29, 2023, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
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The plurality opinion in Robinson Township, written by Chief Justice Ron Castille, together with the concurrence of Justice Max Baer, struck down Act 13, in which the Pennsylvania Legislature had overridden local zoning to permit fracking of natural gas throughout the Commonwealth. In so doing the Supreme Court had brought back to life Article I, Section 27 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, Pennsylvania’s powerful Environmental Bill of Rights (the “ERA”), which had been approved by referendum in 1971, four to one.
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PHILADELPHIA – Both the Pennsylvania Bar Association and Philadelphia Bar Association recently released a concurring ethics opinion discussing how attorneys and their new clients should approach the concept of legal fees.
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WILKES-BARRE – The president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association has resigned from his post, following publicity from his arrest and misdemeanor criminal charges for patronizing a prostitute who police allege tried to extort him.
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HARRISBURG – For J. Paul Helvy, the chairman of the Family
Law Practice Group at McNees Wallace & Nurick LLS and the immediate past
chairman of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Family Law Section, the fight
for a reduction in the divorce waiting period in the state was primarily
about children and the overall well-being of families.
