Philadelphia-area residents will have the opportunity to get free legal advice via telephone next month, the Philadelphia Bar Association announced late last week.
A plaintiff’s attorney from South Jersey has filed an asbestos mass tort claim in Philadelphia’s Common Pleas Court on behalf of an elderly Florida couple who alleges that the husband’s lung cancer was a direct result of his exposure to asbestos during his working years.
The sister of Lower Merion School District student Blake Robbins, who secured a $175,000 settlement from the ritzy suburban Philadelphia school district last year over its so-called webcam spying scandal, has had her own lawsuit dismissed in federal court.
A settlement has been reached in one of the lawsuits filed against the Lower Merion School District over the institution’s webcam controversy, in which it was alleged that the cameras in laptop computers issued to students snapped images of the youngsters without their knowledge.
The attorney for a Lower Merion high school graduate who is suing her former district amid allegations that she was spied on by a take-home laptop computer’s webcam has filed a motion to be replaced as counsel.
WASHINGTON – Philadelphia's civil courts system has been named the nation's worst by the American Tort Reform Foundation for a second consecutive year.
There have been two new developments in the ongoing litigation of the allegations of sexual abuse involving priests from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Lawyers for the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority have filed a motion seeking to dismiss a lawsuit that was initiated last month by former Chief Financial Officer Madeline Apollo, who alleges she was wrongfully terminated from her position.
A federal lawsuit against the Lower Merion School District alleging discrimination on the part of a former long-term substitute teacher has been settled.
