Chief PA litigation reporter for @TheLegalIntel & @lawdotcom. Break news, analyze and investigate. Helplessly lost without spellcheck.
Philadelphia, PA
Joined August 2013
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Due to the global IT outage, the courts are closed today. If you were scheduled for jury duty today, you will be given full credit for your service.
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Pa. High Court Rejects 'Percentage of Revenue' Venue Defense law.com/thelegalintelligence…
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Make sure to check out the feature story in today’s edition of the @thelegalintel discussing the @BarristersPA x @PhilaBar forum on the aftermath of SCOTUS’s affirmative action decisions.
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If clicks on our Q&As are any indication (and they definitely are not!), so far Beck (D) & Battista (R) lead the Superior Court race, Wolf (D) & Martin (R) lead the Commonwealth Court race, & McCullough (R) & Kunselman (D) lead Supreme Court race:
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Huge victory today for reporters covering the Third Circuit who can now confidently make dinner plans
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The 3rd Circuit today dismissed Johnson & Johnson's Chapter 11 talc bankruptcy: "What counts to access the bankruptcy code's safe harbor is to meet its intend purposes. Only a putative debtor in financial distress can do so. LTL was not."
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NEW: @TheJusticeDept says they will appeal the grant of special master in Trump’s fight over classified documents taken from his Florida home.
The good and the bad of that idea via myself/@DavidLaufmanLaw and @NormEisen 👉 law.com/nationallawjournal/2…
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“Flo was a tremendous asset to the District Attorney’s Office when she came over,” said Judge Charles Ehrlich of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. He described Messier as “the kind of person who understood what needed to be done.”
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Two Transitions: Pa. Association of Justice President Takes Helm as She Opens Her New Firm at.law.com/zfBG99?cmp=share_… via @thelegalintel
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Chancellor McCormick just ruled the Twitter v. Musk case will go to trial in October. Dates are TBD, but it's much closer to the expedited schedule Twitter proposed than the one submitted by Musk.
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In other words, it's a Roundup roundup
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Judge Gallagher also did not pass up the opportunity to call the pace of the litigation (against Sherwin-Williams) "tantamount to watching paint dry"
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Mark Stewart To Step Down As Ballard Chair Next Year
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About 16% of the leadership roles in 2021 multidistrict litigation went to attorneys of color, up from 14% in 2020, according to Law.com stats. Five years ago, it was only 4%. Here's what's happening: at.law.com/KcFhiq?cmp=share_… via @lawdotcom
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We at @thelegalintel are following up on the February Pa. bar exam results, which saw the overall pass rates sink to 37%. If any bar applicants or educators have any insight, feel free to DM or reach out to [email protected]. Thank you!
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Prominent plaintiffs' attorneys Ben Crump and Fu Debrosse Zimmermann have launched Shades of Mass, an organization aimed at promoting the "next generation of lawyers of color" in mass tort litigation. at.law.com/b51wLQ?cmp=share_… via @lawdotcom
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Judge Rakoff clears the New York Times of defamation claims in Sarah Palin's lawsuit. The ruling comes as the jury continues it's deliberations in Manhattan. Rakoff says he will wait until a verdict is reached to dismiss the complaint.
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In Rare Move in Big Law, Reed Smith's Advisory Board to Guide Strategy ift.tt/3nZJORi
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (@AP) _ Pennsylvania's state Senate majority leader said Monday that a partisan stalemate remains unbroken on a new map of congressional district boundaries for the state, and she predicted that the state's highest court will end up settling the matter.