Legal Services
Low Interest Rates Equal Legal Aid Woes
By Amaris Elliott-Engel
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Pennsylvania legal services organizations are facing dramatic shortfalls in their budgets because of the national drop in interest rates.
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Judiciary
Senate Confirms Replacements for Appeals Courts
By Peter Hall
Nearly five months to the day after Gov. Edward G. Rendell named his first slate of nominees for temporary positions on the state's appellate courts, the state Senate unanimously approved an entirely different list forged in a showdown between Rendell and Senate Republicans over separation of powers and diversity.
Pennsylvania Bar Association
McClain Appoints 70 to Leadership Postions
By Peter Hall
More than 70 Pennsylvania lawyers will serve as 2008-09 chairs of Pennsylvania Bar Association's committees and sections. PBA President C. Dale McClain made the following appointments:
Design Firms Settle With Airport Worker For Boom Collapse
A US Airways employee fell 30 feet to the ground and suffered several spinal fractures when the support structure for the deicing equipment he was using broke due to structural defects.
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6/11/2008
McClain's Message to PBA: Folksy and Focused on Members
As laid back as his attire, incoming Pennsylvania Bar Association President C. Dale McClain’s address to the group’s House of Delegates last Friday merely touched upon his agenda for the year, focusing instead on the importance of individual members’ participation and his grandchildren.
5/16/2008
CourtWatch
Free ArticleIn the wake of his impassioned soliloquy on victims’ rights during an April 15 argument in a pair of death penalty cases, Justice Seamus P. McCaffery seemed subdued during this week’s arguments in Harrisburg.
3/6/2008
The New New Hampshire
That's what they're calling our state now, in the wake of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's comeback victories in Ohio and Texas , which prevented Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's drive to ensure the Democratic presidential nomination.
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