Aleeza Furman

September 12, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Judge Joshua Robert suggested lawyers who handle mass torts in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas try "resetting the dialogue," saying, "the more pedantic details or the more little things that we're going to be asked to decide are just going to bog us down."

By Aleeza Furman

5 minute read

September 11, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Plaintiffs in the action claimed that Bayada failed to pay nurses for time they spent giving or receiving reports on patients' status at the beginning and end of shifts and for time they spent completing company-mandated trainings.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

September 10, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

After the parties spent more than a year conducting venue discovery, the defendants failed to convince the court that the companies being sued did not conduct sufficient business in Philadelphia for the lawsuits to be situated there.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

September 09, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

The 10 cases slated to go before the justices touch on issues including the scope of prosecutorial immunity, parentage of children conceived through assistive reproductive technology, and a transit system's claim to sovereign immunity.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

September 05, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"The sort of systemic issues we have right now are new, and that's bringing a lot of legal firepower into it," said Dechert partner Martin Black.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

September 04, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

And alongside making determinations on liability and damages, the jury also answered what plaintiffs counsel said was an unusual question to find on a verdict sheet in a personal injury case: whether one of the defendants was the decedent's employer.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

September 03, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Jubelirer's report comes more than a year after the state Supreme Court sanctioned Fulton County and attorney Thomas Carroll for "dilatory, obdurate, and vexatious conduct, as well as conduct in bad faith" in the county's challenge to the secretary of state's authority to decertify voting machines.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

August 30, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

The EEOC alleged that the Defender Association wrongfully terminated and failed to accommodate a public defender diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

August 29, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"A lawyer's job is to do the best you can with whatever the facts are," Mitts said, "but you can't skew the game by failing to respond to requests."

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

August 28, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"This was the clearest statement to date that Section 230 does not provide this catch-all immunity that the social media companies have been claiming it does," Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky partner Jeffrey Goodman, who represents the plaintiff, said.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read