Upon Further Review

Business Law

• Controlling Means and Methods of Construction May Subject Project Owner to Liability of Subcontractor’s Employees
• Are We Having Fun Yet? The Consumer Products Safety Improvements Act – A Year in Review
• The Economic Front Lines: Lessons for Philadelphia’s Business Lawyers Facing an Economy of Change

Criminal Justice

• Pennsylvania Superior Court Rules Probable Cause Required for Court Order Authorizing Consensual Interception of Oral Communications in Home in Commonwealth v. Kuder, 62 A.3d 1038 (Pa. Super. 2013)
• You Have the Right to . . . Give a DNA Sample
• Superior Court Reverses Grant of Suppression
• Superior Court Rules on Attachment of GPS Device as a Search

Evidence

• Should Rule 1311.1 Regarding the Entering of Documents into Evidence in Lieu of Witness Testimony be Amended?
• Trial Evidence of E-Messages Made Simple
• The All New Rule 502: Reducing the Costs and Risks of E-Discovery

Family Law

• Money for Injuries During Marriage Are Divisible After Marriage
• Application of Relocation
• Second-Parent Adoption in Pennsylvania Marks a Decade
• No Duress, Undue Influence or Lack of Financial Disclosure to Invalidate Prenuptial Agreement

Federal Litigation

• Supreme Court Spotlight: No “Cure” For Injuries Caused by Vaccines?
• Gross Decision (?)
• Lines Drawn Against First Amendment Rights in Public Schools
• Obama Signs the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009

Law Practice Management

• Google Owns That?
• The Latest on Internet Privacy

Personal Injury

• Hell’s Kitchen: Getting to the Meat of the Case
• Supreme Court Spotlight: No “Cure” For Injuries Caused by Vaccines?
• Philadelphia Jury Awards Plaintiff Nearly 1 Million in Slip and Fall Case
• Philadelphia Jury Awards Plaintiff $954,000 in Slip and Fall Case

Probate and Trust Law

Public Interest

• Public Interest Spotlight: Bar Leads in Fight Against Cuts to Services for the Poor
• Public Interest Spotlight: What is Public Interest Worth
• A. Leon Higginbotham Lecture: Life is a Public Interest Journey
• The Right to Counsel and the Right to Justice

Real Property

• Episcopalian Evicted and Vestry Vacated
• The Condemned: The Power of Eminent Domain
• Episcopalian In-fighting Spreads to Montgomery County Courthouse
• National Church v. Regional Diocese: Property Ownership by a Religious Institution

State Civil Litigation

• Divorce, Dead Men, and ERISA
• Abortion Access and Pending Pennsylvania Legislation
• What to Expect in Pennsylvania in 2011 on the Issue of Immigration
• Waiting with Bated Breath: The Jordan Brown Murder Trial Presents a Case of First Impression to the Pennsylvania Superior Court

Tax

• TAX ETHICS: Failure to Account for an Estate Asset or Improperly Depriving a Beneficiary of a Rightful Interest
• How Taxpayers Can Help Themselves
• Philadelphia’s Transfer Tax Ordinance Benefits All Families

Workers' Compensation

• The Month in Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation: April 2013 At-A-Glance
• The Month in Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation: March 2013 At-A-Glance
• The Month in Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation: December 2012 At-A-Glance
• The Month in Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation: November 2012 At-A-Glance

Young Lawyers

• Learn to Market Now: Why Young Lawyers Need to Hone Their Marketing Skills from Day One.
• So What Can You Do with a Law Degree?