Barbin & O’Connell and Howland Hess Guinan Torpey & Cassidy merged their firms, renamed Howland Hess Guinan Torpey Cassidy & O’Connell, and maintain offices in Huntingdon Valley, Pa.

The Duquesne University School of Law and the Supreme Court of Justice of the Republic of Costa Rica entered into an academic agreement that includes faculty and judge exchanges between the two organizations.