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OBERMAYER: Colton and Bertin to Speak on PBA Family Law Section Winter Meeting
Obermayer Partners Julie R. Colton and Michael E. Bertin will both be speaking at the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s 2019 Winter Meeting for the Family Law Section. -
Pa. civil litigation reform groups, Philly Bar spar over ATRA's 'Judicial Hellholes' report
PHILADELPHIA – With Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania once again being featured on the American Tort Reform Association’s annual “Judicial Hellholes” and “Watch List," reactions among civil litigation reform groups and Philadelphia's Bar remain adversarial. -
MONTGOMERY MCCRACKEN WALKER & RHOADS: Ernest D. Holtzheimer Elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Business Law Section and Treasurer of the Young Lawyers Division of the Philadelphia Bar Association
Montgomery McCracken is pleased to announce Ernest D. Holtzheimer was elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Business Law Section and Treasurer of the Young Lawyers Division (YLD) of the Philadelphia Bar Association and will serve a one-year term (effective January 1, 2019). -
ECKERT SEAMANS: Eckert Seamans welcomes Brittany Stepp to Philadelphia office and Litigation Division
Eckert Seamans is pleased to welcome associate Brittany L. Stepp to its Philadelphia office and Litigation Division. A recent graduate of Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Stepp is focusing her practice on labor and employment matters. -
ECKERT SEAMAN CHERIN & MELLOT: Eckert Seamans welcomes Anita Murray to Philadelphia office and Litigation Division
Eckert Seamans is pleased to welcome member Anita J. Murray to its Philadelphia office and Litigation Division. -
Philadelphia's 'Hellhole' status up for debate, but group points at huge Xarelto verdict
HARRISBURG – A recent, massive Philadelphia verdict that bucked a small national trend shows the city's court isn't treating businesses fairly, Pennsylvania's legal reform group says. -
New common pleas judge on public service: Do it for the right reasons
PHILADELPHIA – Up-and-coming attorneys considering a career that includes public service should do it for all the right reasons, one of the newest judges on the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas said during a recent interview. -
City of Philadelphia directed to pay auto accident funds to escrow account
PHILADELPHIA – A local court has directed the City of Philadelphia to deliver settlement funds to an escrow account for future distribution to a woman allegedly injured in an auto accident in order to resolve the related litigation. -
Philly lawyer receives Women of Distinction award
A personal injury attorney at a Philadelphia law firm has earned one of the city's top -
Supreme Court appoints family court administrative judge
The naming of Judge Kevin M. Dougherty to administrative judge of the Philadelphia -
Former Phila. mass tort judge named '14 Sandra Day O'Connor Award winner by Phila. Bar Assoc.
Sandra Mazer Moss, the former Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge -
Pa. Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearing on bill to establish center to aid indigent criminal defendants
A bill circulating in the General Assembly that would establish the -
Former Phila. Bar Assoc. chancellor awarded during Conference of County Bar Leaders
Former Philadelphia Bar Association Chancellor Kathleen D. Wilkinson was -
Phila. Bar Assoc. public interest coordinator to be honored by Pa. Legal Aid Network
The Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network will be honoring attorney Merril L. -
Former Phila. Bar Assoc. Chancellor Donald C. Marino, 74, dies from congestive heart failure
Donald C. Marino, a former chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association who created -
Temple Law dean given '14 Justice Sonia Sotomayor Diversity Award
JoAnne Epps, the dean of Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, has -
Public hearing scheduled for Senator’s proposed anti-SLAPP legislation
A lawmaker from southeastern Pennsylvania announced Tuesday that a -
Pa. Supreme Court revises Code of Judicial Conduct; nepotism now expressly prohibited in judiciary
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court updated its Code of Judicial Conduct this -
Susan Peikes Gantman elected to five-year term as Superior Court president judge
After a brief stint as interim president judge of Pennsylvania’s Superior Court, John T. -
Former Phila. mass tort judge named exec. director of Temple's social justice center
Sandra Mazer Moss, who recently retired from her seat on the Philadelphia