A Philadelphia trial judge has ordered attorney Donald E. Haviland Jr. to pay his former firm, Kline & Specter, more than $210,000, plus interest, to cover referral fees and costs arbitrators found he failed to pay from products liability cases he took with him when he left in 2006.
On August 6, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Patricia A. McInerney confirmed a 2-1 arbitration panel's March 2 award to Kline & Specter of $210,220, plus 6 percent annual interest from the date Haviland received the attorney fees.
