Of the five states that lowered the minimum score required for passing the bar last year, four of them had increases in their February 2024 bar passage rates, according to the latest data compiled by the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
Hackers posing as a client persuaded law firm Clark Hill to send $1.1 million from a lawsuit settlement to the wrong bank account, according to an April 22 suit.
A professor at the William & Mary Law School was acting as a “friendly gentile” when he helped draft contracts to purchase unused leavened foodstuffs and lease its storage locations from members of another law professor’s synagogue in suburban Philadelphia.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in a challenge to a Pennsylvania ethics rule that bars lawyers from knowingly engaging in conduct that constitutes discrimination and harassment in the practice of law.
A former partner at the now-closed law firm Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis is facing an amended lawsuit claiming that he made secret recordings with hidden cameras in bathrooms or guest rooms at his residences in New Jersey.
A Philadelphia municipal judge who ruled on 95 traffic citations one day before the hearing date violated just one ethics rule requiring diligent and competent performance of duties, the Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline has ruled.
A federal judge did not abuse his discretion when he imposed “mild and fitting” sanctions on lawyers in the Philadelphia district attorney’s office for misleading statements made when they sought to vacate the death penalty in a double murder case.
A lawyer in Dunnellon, Florida, has filed a lawsuit alleging that attorneys at Blank Rome filed an “utterly baseless” suit against her in a bid to exact financial ruin, destroy her reputation and send a warning to lawyers who switch sides in litigation involving its aviation clients.
The defunct law firm Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis is accused in a lawsuit of commingling contributions to the firm’s 401(k) plan with the firm’s general assets for months at a time and using the money to make distributions to equity partners.
Youths who are 18 to 20 years old are among the people protected by the Second Amendment, and they can’t be barred from carrying guns during a state of emergency, a federal appeals court has ruled in a 2-1 decision.
A Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer who once worked as a prosecutor has been sentenced to four to 23 months in prison for providing legal services in exchange for sexual acts and materials.
Updated: A now-former assistant public defender who was accused of using cocaine before his client’s hearing is in drug rehab and seeking disciplinary probation, rather than a suspension of his law license.
In our final story of the year for our Children & the Law series, we are focusing on the needs of older foster youths about to transition out of care and what supports and services make a difference in their lives. Here are three ways that organizations around the country are helping with this essential work.
Courts in Georgia and Pennsylvania are named as top "judicial hellholes" for their friendliness to tort plaintiffs in a report by the American Tort Reform Foundation.
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