Venue is the legal term meaning the county within the state where a lawsuit is filed. Pennsylvania’s longstanding venue rule permits a lawsuit to be filed in any county where the defendant lives, regularly conducts business, or where the events giving rise to the lawsuit occurred. Following years of lobbying by those seeking to limit […]
Tim Lawn was invited by the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts to lecture at the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges 2022 educational conference. Mr. Lawn, along with noted civil defense attorney Peter Hoffman, were asked to provide the CIVIL LAW UPDATE to the judges, discussing the most significant recent appellate decisions in civil litigation […]
Our partner and friend, Amber Racine, was posthumously honored at the Philadelphia Bar Association Annual Meeting in December 2021 with the Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Award. The O’Connor Award, which honors outstanding women in the legal profession, recognized the late Amber Racine, a past chair of the Association’s Board of Governors and past president of […]
Regina M. Foley was reappointed co-chair of the Philadelphia Bar’s Mentoring and Professional Development Committee for the 2022 year. The committee pairs mentors and mentees and provides resources and programming in professional development. This continues a long history of service to the Bar Association for Foley who has previously served as chair of the Board […]
Spastic cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common type of CP and affects around 80% of people who are diagnosed with cerebral palsy. This type of cerebral palsy is characterized by overly stiff, tight muscles that cause problems with movement or result in jerky, stiff movements. Children with spastic CP can’t relax muscles, leaving them […]