Allegheny County Deed Registry Has Improved Real Estate Practice.

After six months, some still don’t like having to submit deeds for pre-approval before recording. But despite protests, the experiment with deed screening has clearly proved that the new system is worth keeping.

Rendell: “A Nation of Wussies”! Quick, Call Bartlett’s.

Excuse me, Governor, it seems to us that some other officials, not you, exercised leadership in keeping vehicles off the highways while road crews cleared the in-hindsight less than a blizzard snowfall.

Great name for a team, though: the Philadelphia Wussies.

Don’t Be Bitter, Young Lawyer.

No. 548 Dear colleague: Sometime when I wasn’t looking, a blog called Bitter Lawyer made it to the No. 2 spot on the AVVO Blogs — moving ahead of that blonde law professor from Wisconsin, Althouse. It was inevitable. Althouse has been gravitating to shorter and shorter posts for years, until she will eventually have […]

Nutmeg Lawyer is the Best Legal Blog in America, no kidding!

Just check out the testimonials. ABA Best 100 Blawgs for 2010!

But don’t take their word for it — read the blog yourself. Its more entertaining than anything you are going to find on television. And its free! Unless, of course, you want to read it on your Kindle. Then its $1.98. The new layout makes it even better than before.

Maintaining Personal Secrecy in an Age of Transparency.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, is the Time Magazine 2010 Person of the Year. From Time’s account, Julian Assange of Wikileaks was not far behind. Both represent a trend toward disclosure of information which would have been considered out of bounds by just about everybody not long ago.

Of course, people who post on Facebook presumably know that information shared with friends could end up in the hands of enemies. And we have all been warned that what is posted on the internet stays there forever. But beware of another electronic threat to your privacy: email.

What the Internet Got For Christmas

This week alone noticed MASSIVE hacking activity.

Canonsburg: Equal Opportunity Offender.

It has become a holiday tradition, just like the Macy’s Parade. This year this exercise in Yuletide legal hairsplitting is occurring in Canonsburg, PA, the place where they pay homage all-year-round to native crooners Perry Como and Bobby Vinton.

Obamacare and the Courts.

Despite what they tell you on Fox News, the decision by US District Judge Hudson in Richmond means little concerning the final resolution of the issues relating to the constitutionality of the requirement that everyone acquire health care insurance by — did someone say 2013?

Do You Know Who Sancho Panza’s Master Is? To #Amazing Race Producers and Contestants, its Trivia.

No. 541 None of the six contestants (three teams of two) did on the season finale of the Amazing Race. All of them had to ask someone along the way to retrieve the answer (which was a clue) from the internet. This included the two young female doctors who won the race. Amazing Race is […]

WETTICK PARTIALLY SUSTAINS PRELIMINARY OBJECTIONS BY J P MORGAN COMPANIES AND RATING AGENCIES IN MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES LITIGATION. FOUR MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR CASES PROCEED TO DISCOVERY PHASE.

The securities suit brought by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh against a group of J P Morgan companies and the rating agencies they used, filed last year in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, is being closely watched as a bellweather for similar cases filed by others in the FHLB system. One commentator saw the ruling in Pittsburgh as a positive sign for FHLB plaintiffs in San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago and Indianapolis, whose cases have not yet advanced to this point, since the Pittsburgh FHLB’s case survived preliminary objections on general allegations of fraud.

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