ABA Journal

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 23, 2021

A federal appeals court has ordered a Pennsylvania lawyer to pay his opponents’ appellate legal fees for filing a “frivolous” appeal and submitting a brief…

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ABA Journal

JULY 15, 2024

The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 4, 2022

Attorneys should never think of their clients as merchandise. The attorney-client relationship is personal and confidential, and the client’s choice of attorneys in civil cases is near absolute.” 489, it should have written policies to help facilitate the departure of lawyers and the transition of clients. Rule of Prof.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Lawyer flat fee billing can be tricky. ANSWER: While most lawyers and clients are accustomed to the traditional billable hour, other pricing options do exist. Table of contents What Are Lawyer Flat Fees? What Are Lawyer Flat Fees? These include fixed fees, alternative fee structures, and contingency fees, among others.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 14, 2023

appeals court weighs free speech challenge to attorney conduct rule” appeared first on How Appealing. “U.S. ” You can access via this link the audio of yesterday’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. “U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The post “U.S.

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Law 360

JANUARY 10, 2025

A lawyer who lost her malicious litigation case against Blank Rome LLP attorneys and an aviation company in Philadelphia last month has moved for a new trial in Pennsylvania federal court, citing what she called "numerous errors committed by the district court" in her first trial.

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MyCase

JANUARY 12, 2021

If you’re anything like most lawyers, you’ve undoubtedly been working remotely a lot more over the past year than ever before. That’s why it’s so important to have a full understanding of the ethical implications when lawyers and other law firm employees work remotely. The ethics of running a virtual law firm.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The pandemic has raised a number of ethical issues for lawyers and resulted in the issuance of several ethics opinions addressing those issues. Pennsylvania Bar Association Formal Opinion 2020-300 (April 10, 2020). In addition, lawyers working remotely must consider the security and confidentiality of their procedures and systems.

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MyCase

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The Report offers timely statistics regarding the technologies that lawyers are using and how they are being implemented in law firms. The rate of adoption was so dramatic that I would argue that the rate of cloud-based software adoption by lawyers since the survey concluded is most likely much higher than that reflected in the Report.

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ABA Journal

JUNE 7, 2021

A Pennsylvania district attorney has reversed course after he directed his office to stop offering plea deals to clients of a Black attorney who claimed…

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Above The Law

MAY 10, 2021

* A lawyer for an accused Capitol riot claims his client had "Foxitis." Hill ] * Melinda Gates was apparently meeting with divorce lawyers for the past few years before announcing her divorce from Bill Gates. NBC News ] * A Pennsylvania district attorney has resigned after he allegedly pressured women into prostitution.

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ALPS

JUNE 8, 2023

The chatbot tool was able to pass four exams at the law school of the University of Minnesota and one exam at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. The attorney in question admitted to using ChatGPT to prepare a brief, and he told the court that he was unaware that the AI tool could produce false content.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

You’d be surprised at the number of times that people in child custody battles ignore and violate court orders.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The Pennsylvania attorney became something of a sensation after his 3½-minute video featured his tag line “Trust me, I may have a law degree, but I think like a criminal.” Muessig then announced that he was the lawyer “Pittsburgh criminals hire when they commit crimes.”. YouTube screenshot. Thanks Dan!”

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Following a $50 million gift to Drexel University’s law school in 2014, Philadelphia trial lawyer Thomas R. Kline has committed to give the same amount…

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 19, 2022

You will need to act fast as you only have 90 days to file a claim against a government institution.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 17, 2022

Attorney at Work’s “Women in Law” series honors Women’s History Month with a focus on successful women lawyers who have carved a path for themselves in the legal industry and beyond. Tetenbaum is a top immigration lawyer turned women’s advocate and therapist who specializes in life transitions affecting millennials and young women.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2021

This year’s group of honorees is composed of a diverse array of lawyers, legal technologists, law librarians, judges, legal researchers, innovators, and people who are committed to reforming and automating the law. Al Hounsell , Senior Innovation Lawyer, Norton Rose Fulbright. Brad Stern , County Attorney, Washington County, Wisconsin.

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Above The Law

MAY 13, 2021

People ] * An Orlando lawyer allegedly left her kids at home to run an SUV into their father's house. Miami Herald ] * A Central Pennsylvania lawyer, who is accused of threatening to kill United States Senators and shoot his wife, has been disbarred. Time to order some Texas-sized cocktails to go.

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Law 360

JANUARY 24, 2025

A team of Blank Rome LLP attorneys accused another attorney in Pennsylvania federal court of "seeking another bite at the apple" by moving for a new trial after a jury rejected her malicious litigation claims against the team and an aviation company.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A trio of Blank Rome LLP attorneys have asked a federal judge in Pennsylvania to bifurcate a lawsuit against them from another attorney alleging they facilitated a client's retaliation against her for switching to plaintiffs work, asking the judge to split punitive damages into a separate case.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 19, 2022

The three officers were on patrol as crowds were leaving the football game, and when gunshots errupted, the officers “discharged their service weapons in the direction of the Academy Park football field,” Delaware County district attorney Jack Stollsteimer said in a statement, NBC News details.

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Above The Law

JUNE 1, 2021

* A Michigan lawyer, who allegedly gave his adversary the middle finger during a virtual court hearing, has purportedly been fined $3,000. Washington Post ] * A Philadelphia-area attorney passed away last week hours after he was pulled from a bay in Longport, New Jersey. [ That's one expensive bird. Chicago Tribune ].

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ABA Journal

APRIL 14, 2021

A deadlocked Pennsylvania Supreme Court was unable to decide last week whether trust beneficiaries are entitled to legal billing statements and other lawyer communications with…

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LegalReader

MARCH 18, 2022

As soon as you get a lawyer, the burden of dealing with the insurance people will be off your shoulders.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 14, 2022

An accident attorney can explain Pennsylvania’s "modified comparative negligence" rule, where an individual can still recover damages in a personal injury lawsuit.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Susman Godfrey LLP lawyers have objected to three firms' requests for $36.9 million in attorney fees in a life insurance class action, saying they spent millions pressing similar New York and Pennsylvania claims being swept into an allegedly undervalued $147.5 million global settlement in Connecticut.

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Law 360

JUNE 10, 2024

A dispute over deposition scheduling in a sanctions case filed in Pennsylvania federal court by a lawyer who formerly represented an aircraft company has led to accusations of attorneys acting in bad faith to obstruct the case and complaints of a lack of professional courtesy.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The use of paraprofessionals to provide individualized information about defendants that could guide judges’ decisions about granting bail could reduce racial disparities in pretrial detention, argues Paul Heaton , the director of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A Pennsylvania couple have filed a malpractice suit accusing a lawyer of helping a steel distribution company induce them into investing about $800,000 and defrauding them, saying the attorney didn't disclose his relationship with the company's owners and "father-son"-like bond with one of them.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 8, 2024

An attorney suing three Blank Rome LLP lawyers as well as an aircraft motor manufacturer and its parent company was unable to persuade a Pennsylvania federal court to stop a former judge from testifying for the defense as an expert witness in a retaliation case stemming from her decision to switch from representing companies to doing plaintiffs' work. (..)

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ALPS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Catapulted by the leadership of original National Task Force on Lawyer-Well Being member Chief Justice Donald W. Hello and welcome to episode six of the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being Podcast Series. Lemons and his colleague Justice William C. Episode Transcript: Chris Newbold: . The Path to Well-Being in Law. Absolutely.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It is possible to receive a higher award from a jury compared to a settlement behind closed doors with an insurance company. .

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LegalReader

JUNE 15, 2022

Most debtors keep all their property when they file for bankruptcy relief, even under a Chapter 7 case. .

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. Guide & File is designed for parties who are not represented by an attorney at: [link] These services are being rolled out statewide. There is a lot of information there.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 24, 2022

After a car accident, determining negligence could be like peeling layers from an onion.

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