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December 13, 2004 |

Apartment Building Owner, Manager To Pay $5M to Tenants in Burn Case

Large settlements and verdicts in New Jersey.
4 minute read
February 21, 2005 |

Justices Seem Disinclined To Allow Direct Citizen Access to Grand Juries

State and local prosecutors pleaded to a visibly sympathetic state Supreme Court last Tuesday that letting private citizens present cases to grand juries, as an appeals court has said they can, would throw the criminal justice system into havoc.
12 minute read
April 26, 2004 |

No Delay Damages Unless High-Low Accord Says So

A plaintiff who enters into a high-low agreement and later wins a jury verdict within the range is not entitled to seek delay damages if the arrangement is silent on that issue, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
3 minute read
May 17, 2007 |

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

AuthoredWendy Beetlestone, an education law and litigation shareholder at Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, authored a commentary titled "No Child Left Behind's Accountability and Access Provisions: An Inherent Tension Within Supplemental Educational Services Programs," which was published in the April 19 issue of the West's Education Law Reporter.
2 minute read
September 23, 2005 |

Baseball Fan Hit by Foul Allowed to Sue Park Owner for Negligence

Sports-injury litigation took on a new dimension in New Jersey last week as the state Supreme Court ruled that a ballpark patron hit by a foul ball while buying a beer can sue the park owner for negligence. The ruling alters the long-standing "baseball rule" -- a limited-duty-of-care doctrine that for more than a century has shielded stadium owners from litigation.
7 minute read
June 08, 2001 |

Numbers of Minorities, Women on the Rise on Philadelphia

There are more African-Americans and women but fewer summer associates overall visiting Philadelphia law firms this summer. And after a year of robust salary increases, firms held the line in 2001.
7 minute read
February 07, 2007 |

$8M Settlement Reached in Fatal Pa. Paper Mill Case

An $8 million settlement has been reached in a Philadelphia workplace death case that sparked a hard-fought dispute over the identities of various corporate defendants named in the action. Steven Green died in July 2002 after apparently falling into a high-temperature pulping pit at the paper mill at which he was employed. The dispute arose over which corporate entity was considered Green's employer, as that entity would not be held liable under Pennsylvania workers' compensation laws.
6 minute read
April 03, 2007 |

Is Mentoring the Cure for Minority Attorney Woes?

At a diversity conference held last week at Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, associates said their identity as minority members has led to false perceptions of skill sets and a diminished caseload. One black associate said she was working at her second firm after the only work generated from the first was the overseeing of contract attorneys as they handled document review. But it's not much better at the second firm, she said. Panelists increasingly pointed to the importance of mentors as a solution.
6 minute read
January 25, 2002 |

Key to Title IX Claims: Principal's Knowledge, Indifference

Overturning a $400,000 verdict, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that juries can't hold school districts liable for sexual misconduct by elementary school teachers unless there's proof that the principal had "actual knowledge" of the problem and was "deliberately indifferent." It was unclear whether the jury based its original verdict on the principal's or the guidance counselor's knowledge of alleged inappropriate behavior.
7 minute read
September 24, 2003 |

Burn Victims to Get $5.8 Million From Energy Firms

Mobile Dredging Pumping Co. has agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle lawsuits filed in the wake of a fire in a Philadelphia steam plant -- one brought by the estate of a man who was burned over 96 percent of his body and died 18 hours later, the other by a man who survived burns over 30 percent of his body.
4 minute read

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