Pennsylvania Associations Code Amendments to Change Corporate Filings Beginning on July 1, 2015.

As July 1 approaches, you’ll be hearing a lot more about this statute. Also known as the Entity Transactions Act or Law, it substantially modernizes and rearranges Title 15.

Signs of the Times: Laying Down the Law at the Butler County Courthouse.

This sign was posted outside a courtroom in the Butler County Court House. Justice is not blind in all cases.

Supreme Court Amends Rules to Permit Minors to Sue and Be Sued in Magistrate’s Court Without Appointment of a Guardian

No. 1,140 IN RE; ORDER AMENDING RULES 801-816 AND 820 AND RESCINDING RULE 817 OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE GOVERNING ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS BEFORE MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT JUDGES. Magisterial Rules Docket No. 382, March 13, 2015 It is now possible for a minor (defined as a person under age 18) to sue and be […]

The Apple Watch as a Productivity Tool.

No. 1,139 The first Apple Watches are scheduled to ship on or about April 24. Like children anticipating Christmas, many can hardly wait. But the Apple Watch is not an expensive toy. It is a tool, a valuable one for people who are out and about, including busy lawyers. Time Management Ninja, a blog by […]

Internet Explorer and On-line Filing in the Allegheny County Department of Court Records

No. 1,138 Back in the day, Internet Explorer (IE) was the overwhelming favorite web browser, attaining its peak of about a 95% usage share in 2002 and 2003, according to Wikipedia. The article stated: “Its usage share has since declined with the launch of Firefox (2004) and Google Chrome (2008), and with the growing popularity of operating systems such […]

A Parable of the Persistent Robin.

No. 1,137 While I was on the telephone today, I noticed a robin in a garden plot. She had taken hold of a thick string about 3 feet long, fastened to a post. Nesting material, I presume. I say “she” because, according to information acquired in elementary school, males have a bright orange breast while […]

Robotic Lawyers and Other Science Fiction About the Future.

No. 1,136 A filler article in USA Today recently listed “small-time” lawyers as a professional group that will not exist in 15 years. It states that computers will take over the services presently being performed by these lawyers. Such predictions are not new. The age of artificial intelligence is dawning. The IBM Watson computer, which beat […]

Old Dogs/New Tricks and Other Bunk We Tell Ourselves.

No. 1,135 It is hard to think of an old adage that is more disempowering than this one. It is a negative idea, intended to discourage old dogs from even trying to learn something. In a rapidly changing world, this leads to the marginalization of some of our most experienced and capable people. As a […]

Consumer Complaint Update: You Can Write a Narrative But CFPB Probably Won’t Read It.

No. 1,134 DS News, a newsletter for home loan mortgage servicers and lenders, reports on an industry study of the federal Consumer Finance Protection Bureau’s consumer complaint database. CFPB has been taking consumer complaints against lenders and their minions for several years and storing them in a publicly available data base. But they reportedly never […]

Brevity is the Soul of What?

No. 1,133 The Federal judiciary is proposing to limit briefs to 12,500 words. The current limit is 14,000. The advocates of the Rule change are mostly judges.The opponents are primarily appellate lawyers who worry that they might commit malpractice if they fail to cite a case or state every argument they can invent. Of course, […]

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