There is an ethical cloud hanging over the Pennsylvania Supreme Court involving referral fees received from law firms by Lise Rapaport, Justice Seamus McCaffery's wife and chief aide and clerk. The existence of the fees has been public since this paper exposed it several years ago. Recently, The Philadelphia Inquirer published additional information about the referral fees. No one in any official capacity has taken any action. The facts are troubling and places the Supreme Court in a bad light. It must be put to rest.
McCaffery's wife, Rapaport, is a lawyer who is employed as his chief aide and clerk, at a salary of $75,395. While employed by him, she has received 18 referral fees from at least eight different law firms.
