http://www.post-gazette.com/businessnews Business Legal News en-us Copyright 2012, post-gazette.com. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 01:07:30 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/images/144x39pgtoplogo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1282573-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP co-partner Bruce Fox has been named president of the University of Pittsburgh Law Alumni Assoc. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1282574-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml K&L Gates will head into Australia in a big way when it officially merges with Middletons on Jan. 1, but the market isn't for everyone. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1282575-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml A Pennsylvania mother can take time off under FMLA in order to make day care arrangements for her autistic child, a federal judge says. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1282576-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml The Commonwealth Court won't refund the $100,000 that Peter DePaul paid to the state for violating a state ban on political contributions. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1282577-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml The family of a 20-year-old college student who died after a frat house fall has settled with the fraternity and a beer distributor. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12345/1282578-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml A faculty member wanted to know just how those costs would be paid. So, he asked Penn State president Rodney Erickson. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12338/1280745-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml A Lackawanna County judge has tossed out a suit filed by a former train conductor who claims he suffered from prolonged coal dust exposure. Mon, 3 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12338/1280746-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml Attorneys would have to report suspected child abuse to authorities if recommendations from the state's child abuse task force become law. Mon, 3 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12338/1280747-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml The CIA is implicated in the murder of one of its own military scientists in a lawsuit filed by the scientists sons last week. Mon, 3 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12338/1280749-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml Patricia Dodge, managing partner, Meyer, Unkovic & Scott, was honored with the Civil Litigation Professionalism Award Mon, 3 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12338/1280750-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml Law enforcement officials, as well as criminal defense attorneys, are concerned about "false confessions" and the integrity of convictions. Mon, 3 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12338/1280751-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml Popular Pittsburgh cafes Point Brugge and Park Bruges learn the hard way about the ins and out of federal labor law and tipping regulations. Mon, 3 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12332/1279848-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml A judge Monday put the brakes on a proposed settlement between class action plaintiffs and Highmark. Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12331/1279133-28.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml The state's corporate community says Pennsylvania's lawsuit climate -- particularly the practice of "venue shopping" -- scares businesses. Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12331/1279134-28.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml Entrepreneurs who use their own products are likely to stay in business longer. Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12331/1279135-28.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml Goehring, Rutter & Boehm announced the addition of Leigha Coon as an attorney in its litigation group, focusing primarily in Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12331/1279136-28.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml The upstream neighbor of Jeanette's F.C. Meyer Packaging Co. was partly to blame for the packing company's flooding during a 2009 storm. Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12331/1279137-28.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml Estates-planning lawyers have seen an uptick in inquiries from landowners with oil and gas interests. Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12331/1279138-28.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml The state Superior Court has some choice words for a Washington County judge, calling him a "bully" following a contentious custody case. Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12331/1279618-84.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml Judges and lawmakers across the country are wrangling over whether and when law enforcement authorities can peer into suspects' cell phones Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12331/1279705-53.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml But 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges wrote U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab may not have allotted the two sides enough time. Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12324/1277596-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml Beck & Thomas P.C. announced that Charles H. (Chip) Dougherty Jr., Richard T. Ting and Regina Petruzzi Neumann have joined the firm. Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12324/1277597-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml This is the first in three-part series examining the ways in which firms are managing e-discovery work and whether there is profit to be had Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12324/1277598-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml The Pennsylvania Supreme Court takes a step into the information age as electronic filing becomes an option. Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12324/1277600-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml The parents of a 19-year-old who died after a snowboarding accident settled with the hospital and organ donation center. Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12324/1277601-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml Jerry Pappert, former Pennsylvania attorney general and current chairman of the new Banking and Securities Commission, joins Cozen O'Connor. Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12324/1277602-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml Six judges have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the requirement that all Pennsylvania judges retire at age 70. Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12324/1278097-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml U.S. Steel says it spent more than $6.9 million in connection with the July 14, 2010 explosion in a section of the works called "B battery." Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12321/1277361-54.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml In 2010, Lawrence County Children and Youth Services took Elizabeth Mort's baby following a drug test done by Jameson Health System. Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12317/1275798-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml A Pennsylvania woman who became pregnant and had an abortion despite having had a sterilization procedure may move her case forward. Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12317/1275799-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml When Martha Yablonsky began her Ph.D. program in 2003 there was no time limit in place. Now the university says she's run out of time. Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12317/1275800-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml Two insurers are freed from indemnifying Trumbull Corp., which has been sued by J.C. Penney for faulty construction in Washington County. Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12317/1275802-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml David M. Landay has been elected to the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County. Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12317/1275803-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml How will the first Democrat, and the first woman, elected to the state's Attorney General post run the office? Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12317/1275804-499.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sent a warning to businesses: Conduct criminal background checks at your own risk. Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12317/1276356-54.stm?cmpid=legalnews.xml The Fox Chapel Area School District subjected the student to ridicule by seating him alone in the cafeteria, according to the lawsuit. Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500