by Taylor Trusky | Jul 12, 2024 | Advice for Attorneys
There are unique challenges that we experience as young professionals regardless of our gender or the industry we work in. It is hard to ignore the fact, however, that young female professionals tend to face an additional level of adversity. After I personally faced...
by Daniel Pierson | Jul 3, 2024 | Advice for Attorneys
When they begin their legal careers, many attorneys believe that because their clients hired them to advise them on their legal or business issues, those clients will promptly respond to every communication those attorneys send, will do what the attorneys ask of them,...
by Samuel H. Pond | Jun 7, 2024 | Advice for Attorneys
In light of two Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court decisions, Neves v. Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (Am. Airlines), 232 A.3d 996 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2020), and Williams v. City of Phila. (Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd.), 2024 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 89, workers’ compensation...
by Samuel H. Pond | Apr 23, 2024 | Advice for Attorneys, News
I have written in the past about the failure of punitive damages to have the deterrent effect they were designed to have. Rather than deter intentional harm or egregious behavior, the threat punitive damages pose is seemingly ignored by corporations and employers who...
by Dylan Pond | Mar 18, 2024 | Advice for Attorneys
Standing 19,341 feet above sea level, Mount Kilimanjaro is both the highest mountain in Africa and the highest single free-standing mountain above sea level on Earth. A few years ago, I traveled to Tanzania to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. When I did, I was required to...
by Jerry Lehocky | Dec 19, 2023 | Advice for Attorneys
The holiday season is already a bad time of year for recipients of workers’ compensation benefits, but many workers’ compensation insurance carriers engage in troubling conduct that makes it unbearable. Workers’ compensation benefits provide a critical financial...
