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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.
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
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.
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.
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.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.TRENDING STORIES
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