Law Firm Breakups

Law firm breakups are fraught with the potential for attorney misconduct. Attorneys who determine they can no longer work together will often take the additional step of accusing one another of inappropriate conduct. Legal Update for Lawyers’ Professional Liability – May 2024 is prepared by Marshall Dennehey to provide information on recent legal developments of in

Under Section 440 of the Act, an unreasonable contest will always result in an award of attorney’s fees and a reasonable contest may result in an attorney’s fee award.

In this case, a workers’ compensation judge granted a Claim Petition and ordered payment of benefits for a September 17, 2020, work injury, but only through June 24, 2021, at which time, the judge found that the claimant had fully recovered from t What’s Hot in Workers’ Comp, Vol. 28, No.