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July 06, 2000 |

Movers & Shakers

Follow lawyers' career moves and law firms' transformations each week with "Movers & Shakers." This week, Philadelphia's Mesirov Gelaman Jaffe Cramer & Jamieson and Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis have officially agreed to merge; Gail S. Port, manager of the environmental practice group at Proskauer Rose, has been reappointed by New York Gov. George Pataki to the New York State Environmental Board.
4 minute read
July 06, 2007 |

For Better or Worse: Pa. Firms Stand Out in Pro Bono Rankings

When The American Lawyer ranked AmLaw 200 firms by their pro bono performance, Pennsylvania firms had a presence in all the notable categories -- some good, some not.
3 minute read
April 16, 2003 |

Klett Rooney Raises Starting Salary

In hopes of increasing its name recognition in the marketplace and jumping ahead of the competition, Pittsburgh-based Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling will raise first-year associate salaries from $105,000 to $110,000. "I think this will indicate that we are a player with top law students because it shows that we are financially sound enough to handle making such a change," said partner and board member Bill Schorling.
3 minute read
September 09, 2005 |

Lending a Hand to Displaced Law Students

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Philadelphia-area law school deans were among those nationally who devised a strategy to help the two New Orleans-based law schools place their students for the fall semester. As a result, local law schools will take dozens of students from both Tulane University Law School and Loyola University New Orleans School of Law. "Every law school in the country was prepared to do this," said Villanova Law Dean Mark Sargent.
9 minute read
Ben Ezra, Weinstein, and Co., Inc. v. America Online Inc.
Publication Date: 2000-03-14
Practice Area: civil practice : federal | computer law
Industry:
Court: 10th Cir.
Judge: BALDOCK, BRORBY, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: Shannon L. Donahue, et. al.
For defendant: Patrick J. Carome, et. al.
Case number: No. 99-2068

The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion.BALDOCK, Circuit Judge. Section 509 of the Communications Decency Privacy Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 1

January 27, 2005 |

Reed Smith Disputes Claims of Growing Pains

Within just five years, Reed Smith has nearly doubled in size and profitability while making splashes in the California and London markets with large mergers. The firm is led by the dynamic Gregory Jordan, a 45-year-old Reed Smith lifer who has accepted the mission of taking the firm to the next level. But with the changes have come rumblings that the Philadelphia office has been ignored and partners de-equitized while Reed Smith changes focus and tries to become more like a New York firm.
7 minute read
June 21, 2011 |

4th Circuit Rules Computer Oversight Not 'Excusable Neglect'

The federal rules provide a mechanism that enables tardy litigants to seek an extension of an expired deadline provided the delay was the result of "excusable neglect." The 4th Circuit analyzed the excusable neglect standard in the context of a notice of appeal from a district court judgment filed one day late as a result of a technical error by counsel's computer calendaring system.
5 minute read
June 01, 2007 |

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

New Additions Thomas A. Boulden has joined the Fort Washington law firm of Timoney Knox. Boulden focuses his practice in trusts and estate and Orphans' Court litigation.
2 minute read
March 15, 2004 |

Code of Ethics for City Employees Recommended

A Philadelphia ethics committee is urging city government to adopt a new ethics code and give a board the teeth to properly enforce it, as part of efforts to combat a "pay-to-play" system. While not advocating "city-focused campaign finance reform," committee members did recommend that government leaders pursue a statewide finance reform measure, potentially modeled after a statute currently before New Jersey's state Assembly.
6 minute read
March 04, 2004 |

Judge Refuses to OK Settlement in Legal Malpractice Suit

A Philadelphia judge refused Tuesday to approve a $4.5 million settlement proposed by the law firm Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll and limited partners of the Keystone Venture V capital fund in an attempt to resolve a legal malpractice suit alleging that lawyers failed to keep public pension funds in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts from losing money. The law firm has denied any wrongdoing or liability.
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