Balance and Communication Are Key When Name Partners Leave
The Legal Intelligencer
Monday, June 4, 2012
A number of small and midsized firms in Pennsylvania have been forced to rebrand recently after parting with name partners. In many cases, the partners who left were also co-founders.
Panel, Invoking Champerty, Says Purchase of Claims Derails Suits
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has thrown out two lawsuits against four personal injury attorneys through the rarely invoked legal avenue of champerty.
Class Action Firm Cohen Milstein Reopens in Phila. With Qui Tam Group
The Legal Intelligencer
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Washington, D.C.-based class action firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll has opened anew in Philadelphia and created a whistleblower practice through the hire of three Berger & Montague attorneys.
Bucks County Firm, Former Shareholder Sue Each Other Over Succession Plan
The Legal Intelligencer
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
The principals of the firm formerly known as Mellon Webster & Shelly are embroiled in litigation with each other over the firm's succession plan in the wake of its leader's diagnosis with a serious illness.
Conrad O'Brien Co-Founder, Trial Lawyer, Dies
The Legal Intelligencer
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
William J. "Billy" O'Brien's skill as a trial lawyer was inimitable. Many lawyers who knew O'Brien for many years said the defense lawyer was not one of the best trial lawyers in Philadelphia but a lawyer whose humility and ethics should be mimicked by other members of the bar.
