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Allison Dunn is a reporter on ALM's Rapid Response desk based in Ohio, covering impactful litigation filings and rulings, emerging legal trends, controversies in the industry, and everything in between. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @AllisonDWrites.
March 25, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal
The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed with a majority of the state's Disciplinary Review Board, issuing reciprocal discipline to a Pennsylvania attorney for falsely telling clients that he successfully resolved their cases and paying them more than $500,000 from his personal funds to perpetrate those falsehoods.
By Allison Dunn
4 minute read
March 14, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal
The attorney was convicted of unlawful sexual contact with a minor and criminal use of a communication facility after contacting an undercover agent, who was posing online as a 14-year-old girl.
By Allison Dunn
2 minute read
March 11, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
Despite finding that Pennsylvania's statutory damages cap is "profoundly unfair if not unconscionable" to a plaintiff who suffered extensive injuries in a SEPTA bus crash, a Philadelphia judge rejected a post-trial motion challenging the cap's constitutionality.
By Allison Dunn
5 minute read
March 2, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
"Sometimes you get more emotionally invested in a case because you want to help someone as your friend," the respondent, family law attorney Thomas J. Dancison Jr., told Law.com. "They're not your child—they're your client. ... Sometimes you have to temper how you approach things. I think that would be an approach for any attorney to learn."
By Allison Dunn
6 minute read
February 23, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
The plaintiff, Gerald Bellan, filed his appeal on May 26, after Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge James C. Crumlish III sided with PPMC in dismissing the complaint with prejudice, finding Bellan failed to serve the hospital within a 30-day period.
By Allison Dunn
4 minute read
January 28, 2022 | Law.com
"I didn't have the energy to prepare anything and was living off of coffee and Red Bull until I fainted during finals season," said one Reddit user. "Big wake up call."
By Allison Dunn
5 minute read
January 27, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
Willie Stokes, 60—the state's longest incarcerated exoneree—was released from the Chester State Correctional Institution on Jan. 4 after serving 37 years for the 1980 murder of Leslie Campbell, which he did not commit, said his attorneys Joshua Van Naarden and Julia Ronnebaum of Van Naarden Spizer Chase and Pinto.
By Allison Dunn
4 minute read
January 24, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
A former Pennsylvania attorney was disbarred from practicing in New Jersey last week after he was convicted of stealing approximately $400,000 from an estate to pay for his personal use.
By Allison Dunn
4 minute read
January 7, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
A hearing committee initially recommended the attorney be suspended for one year and one day, retroactive to his temporary suspension July 13, 2020.
By Allison Dunn
5 minute read
December 23, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer
The Supreme Court majority said nothing about the question defense counsel posed to its musculoskeletal radiology expert—asking whether he was aware that the plaintiff "couldn't find" an expert of his own in that field—warranted a new trial.
By Allison Dunn
6 minute read
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