By: Vasilios J. Kalogredis Special article to the Legal Intelligencer Printed 6/7/2016 It is worthwhile to understand some of what is being considered to attempt the difficult task of linking reimbursement and quality. In April 2015, President Obama signed into...
In the event you are given the job of managing the Estate of a family member or friend, do you know the steps to follow? An executor is the person named in a Will to settle the Estate when an individual...
On May 19, 2016, the United States Supreme Court clarified the circumstances under which a defendant can recover attorneys’ fees in a Title VII action. In CRST Van Expedited, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Court firmly established that...
The Obama Administration, through the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, announced new federal regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FSLA”) that will dramatically change the way in which payments for overtime will be calculated. As an employer,...
Vince Pompo, partner and chairman of Lamb McErlane’s municipal law department was quoted in The Pennsylvania Township News May 2016 publication. The article is on the Pipeline Infrastructure – Task Force Report. Vince serves on the Local Government Workgroup of...
Maureen McBride, partner at Lamb McErlane PC participated in a program entitled, “The Most Pressing Issues for Pennsylvania’s New Supreme Court” on April 6, 2016 at the Union League of Philadelphia. She presented to a group of over 100 lawyers...
April 5, 2016 Written by: Ben Seal While ethics attorneys are split over the precedent established by the Court of Judicial Discipline’s recent order sanctioning former Justice J. Michael Eakin with a $50,000 fine, the net effect of Eakin’s case...
Printed in The Legal Intelligencer – March 28, 2016 Author: Lizzy McLellan As local governments deal with more complex legal issues, they are increasingly looking to midsize law firms with deep municipal benches to meet their needs, municipal lawyers said....
Eakin, who lives in Elizabethtown with his wife, Heidi, a lawyer who assisted in his defense, started his career in the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office in Carlisle after graduating from Dickinson Law School in 1975. He was elected district...
On February 16, 2016, Governor Tom Wolf changed the way the public can learn of or gain access to certain prior convictions in Pennsylvania. The new law permits a person to request a Court to seal records of certain past...
In December of 2015, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided a landmark case, Gilbert v. Synagro Central LLC, in which it held that the land application of biosolids is a “normal agricultural operation” under the Pennsylvania Right to Farm Act (RTFA)...
Efforts at mediation in Justice J. Michael Eakin’s disciplinary case stalled early last week, according to key parties in the matter. The Court of Judicial Discipline appointed attorney Richard Sprague as a third-party mediator after Eakin and the Judicial Conduct...