The Legal Intelligencer

07/11/2025

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07/11/2025

Pa. Joins Growing Number of States Adopting NextGen Bar Exam

Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Alabama are the most recent states to adopt the NextGen bar exam, beginning in July 2028.

07/11/2025

ICYMI. Zane Memeger, Former US Attorney, Leaves Morgan Lewis to Lead Pennsylvania Innocence Project
https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2025/07/09/zane-memeger-former-us-attorney-leaves-morgan-lewis-to-lead-pennsylvania-innocence-project/

07/11/2025

ICYMI. Two Sides of the Same Coin: Risks and Rewards of Using AI in the Workplace
By Jessica L. Mazzeo and Jason Kaner of Jackson Lewis
https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2025/07/09/two-sides-of-the-same-coin-risks-and-rewards-of-using-ai-in-the-workplace/

07/11/2025

ICYMI. Infant formula plaintiffs targeted Pennsylvania hospitals solely for state court jurisdiction, says U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, and they will stay in federal court. She declined to remand the cases to the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas as the plaintiffs requested.
https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2025/07/09/infant-formula-plaintiffs-targeted-pa-hospitals-solely-for-state-court-jurisdiction-federal-judge-rules/

07/11/2025

Stevens & Lee Acquires North Jersey Boutique to Build Out Corporate Practice

Brian Satz and his team are Stevens & Lee’s latest corporate additions, after it added on nine corporate attorneys from Rhode Island's Duffy & Sweeney earlier this year.

07/11/2025

Third Time's the Charm? Both Sides Seek New Trial Following $5.6M Birth Injury Verdict

The defendants claimed in their respective post-trial motions that inflammatory behavior from plaintiffs' counsel Thomas Bosworth, of Bosworth DeAngelo, prejudiced the trial's outcome. The plaintiffs, meanwhile, contended in their post-trial motion that the court improperly blocked them from seeking...

07/11/2025

Arbitration: A Faster, Cheaper Alternative—or Just a Courtroom in Disguise?

Arbitration emerged from a healthy skepticism of the court system, its lengthy timelines, procedural complexity, rigidity and high costs. So, why is it that, nearly a century after the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) provided arbitration with a firm legal foundation in the United States, modern arbitr...

07/11/2025

A Less Effective IRS Is Not Necessarily a Better IRS

Looking past the inevitability that reduced tax enforcement will depress the government’s revenue collection ability (producing even larger budget deficits), an understandable reaction might be that that less aggressive tax enforcement by the IRS can only be considered a good thing. Taxpayers whos...

07/11/2025

People in the News—July 11, 2025—Pietragallo Gordon, Chartwell

Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti announced the addition of two new associates to the firm's Pittsburgh office: Latia R. J. Hubbard and Aaron M. McDonough.

07/10/2025

It Is Time to Rethink Parties’ 'Right' to Attend Depositions

By Ben Present of Kline & Specter

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2025/07/10/it-is-time-to-rethink-parties-right-to-attend-depositions/

07/10/2025

Superior Court Upholds $207.6M Birth Injury Judgment Against Penn Hospital

"We continue to believe that the verdict against the hospital is legally unsupported because Pennsylvania law does not recognize 'team liability' and instead requires that vicarious liability be based on the negligent acts of a specifically identified agent," Maureen McBride, representing HUP, asser...