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New guidance for judges handling insurance issues finally passes after resistance
WASHINGTON – New guidance for judges handling insurance issues finally passes after resistance -
'Wacko': Insurance law project puts spotlight on American Law Institute's direction
PHILADELPHIA - The American Law Institute (ALI) is as powerful as any society with a membership of 3,000 of the nation’s leading lawyers could be. And since its founding in 1923, the Philadelphia-based group of judges and academic and practicing lawyers has been as obscure as a group with so much power would want to be. -
ALI's Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance the subject of strong debate at group's annual meeting
ALI's Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance the subject of strong debate at group's annual meeting -
Attorney expresses insurers' concerns with third council draft of ALI liability insurance law restatement
Subsequent to an American Law Institute conference held in October, the group recently issued its third council draft for its Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance. -
Princeton Review says Penn Law graduates have best prospects
PHILADELPHIA - The combination of cross-disciplinary offerings, collaboration and superb schooling adds up to a job and paycheck for University of Pennsylvania law graduates. -
ALI restating liability insurance law, final product on schedule for May meeting
PHILADELPHIA – A reporter chosen by the American Law Institute to re-interpret liability insurance law says he was encouraged by feedback at a meeting earlier this month. -
Former Philly solicitor to grow Chamberlain Hrdlicka's office
PHILADELPHIA – Complex litigation and business attorney Ken Trujillo has moved to Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry from Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis. -
Judge says defendants couldn't prove plaintiff intended to destroy electronic data
PHILADELPHIA - Years in the making, an updated Rule 37 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure met one of its first tests recently before a federal judge in Philadelphia. -
District judge nominated to Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo has been nominated by President Barack Obama to serve in -
Juvenile Law Center attorney wins child advocacy award from PBA
Juvenile Law CenterThe Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Children’s Rights Committee recently presented its 2014 Child Advocate of the Year Award to Jennifer Pokempner, a supervising attorney at the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia. -
Experienced defamation attorney joins Higher Ed and Commercial Litigation practices at Saul Ewing’s Phila. office
An experienced litigator who has represented media companies in -
Northampton Co. judge and Raynes McCarty lawyer confirmed to federal bench in Philadelphia
The United States Senate on Wednesday confirmed two judges for seats on -
Duane Morris partner Nolan Atkinson to be given lifetime achievement award during PBA’s Minority Attorney Conference
The Pennsylvania Bar Association will honor Philadelphia lawyer Nolan N. -
Penn Law Dean Michael Fitts tapped to lead Tulane University in New Orleans
The dean of the University of Pennsylvania’s Law School is heading down -
Obama nominates Dechert attorney Cheryl Ann Krause to Third Circuit
President Obama this week nominated Cheryl Ann Krause, an attorney who -
Schnader Harrison & Lewis welcomes attorneys from Trujillo Rodriguez & Richards
The Philadelphia law firm of Schnader Harrison & Lewis announced this -
Former Ballard Spahr chairman Arthur Makadon dies at 70
A former chairman of Ballard Spahr who helped the Philadelphia-based law firm branch -
ACLU files two more suits over arrests for observing PPD activity
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University of Pennsylvania Law School receives $15 million gift to establish center studying justice fairness
The University of Pennsylvania Law School announced this week that it plans to establish a national research and policy center designed to study the fair administration of justice, -
U.S. Senate confirms Magistrate Judge Patty Shwartz for Third Circuit
United States Magistrate Judge Patty Shwartz this week was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a 64-34 vote to serve on the Philadelphia-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals.