The unprecedented current climate has raised unique and challenging issues for litigation. With the widespread quarantine orders and subsequent impact on commerce, everyone needs to prepare for the resultant effects on lives and businesses. Contractual…
In 2013, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission decided that the charter for the Community Academy of Philadelphia, Philadelphia’s oldest charter school, should not be renewed, citing the school’s financial and academic struggles. Bochetto, Lentz &…
Bochetto, Lentz & Heim attorney Kiersty DeGroote was interviewed by Hearst National Television for “Silent No More: The Reckoning,” the final installment of a three-part investigation of the Jehovah’s Witness religious organization. The story focuses…
An age discrimination lawsuit against Manheim Township could be headed to trial this fall if pending settlement talks fail. A settlement conference is scheduled for Aug. 5, according to the court docket. If both sides…
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Ralph Cipriano, NewsWeek It took a near-death experience to convince retired Philadelphia police detective Joe Walsh that he couldn’t keep quiet anymore about what he knew. It was June 11, 2015, just another sunny day…
Law360, Philadelphia (September 12, 2017) — Members of Pennsylvania’s highest court questioned Tuesday whether Barrack Rodos & Bacine should be able to rely on state legal ethics rules to avoid claims from a non-attorney consultant…
Max Mitchell, The Legal Intelligencer A recently published book about Kermit Gosnell, the infamous abortion doctor convicted of murder in 2013, is now the object of a court action by the judge who presided over…
On April 26, 2017, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Villani v. Seibert, upholding the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s Dragonetti Act, which had been struck down as unconstitutional by two lower courts. In…
Law360, Philadelphia (March 20, 2017, 7:13 PM EDT) — Pennsylvania’s highest court has been urged to bar Barrack Rodos & Bacine from using state legal ethics rules to get out from under an oral fee-sharing…