If so, then you may wish to listen to this podcast of an excellent panel discussion, Making Private Practice Leap, sponsored by the Philadelphia Bar Association on June 4, 2014, as part of its Law Firm Laboratory Series. The panelists were Steve Harvey of Steve...
Year: 2014
Litigating Life … or Death—One Year Later
On June 5, 2013, federal judge Michael Baylson in Philadelphia made national news when he issued a temporary restraining order directing Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and the federal organ allocation system to disregard the age of Sarah...
Dr. Strangelaw or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Deposition Disputes
A courtroom trial is the law at its most glamorous. Hollywood has made it so. Think Spencer Tracy, Gregory Peck, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise, Paul Newman, Denzel Washington, Joe Pesci, and many others. We all know the roles and the scenes: the cross exams, courtroom...
Supreme Court in Town of Greece v. Galloway Approves Overtly Sectarian Prayer Chosen by Local Majority for Public Town Meetings
The Supreme Court disappoints with its decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway. The case concerned the constitutionality under the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause of government-sponsored prayer at public town meetings, where over a period of nine years the town...
Auernheimer Case Leaves Unsettled Key Issues of Internet Freedom
Celebrate Freedom. Support a free and open Internet. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (federal appellate court for New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware) in April 2014 decided to duck, that is, not decide, whether the U.S. Department of Justice had...
Irish Elk, Anyone?
Fossil of Irish Elk, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA. We are approaching the ten-year anniversary of the events that set into motion the “modern day Scopes monkey trial,” the 2005 landmark intelligent design case of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School...
Auernheimer Case Will Define Extent of Internet Freedom
“He had to do all kinds of things I don’t even understand.” That was a quote from the government’s attorney on March 19, 2014, at the Third Circuit oral argument in U.S. v. Auernheimer. He was referring to the alleged criminal activity of the defendant, 28-year-old...
New Law Firm Experiences Strong Growth; Doubles Size in Just Three Months
The trial and litigation boutique law firm known as Steve Harvey Law LLC is celebrating its three-month anniversary by announcing the hiring of David V. Dzara as Counsel. David is a terrific trial lawyer/litigator who formerly worked in the commercial litigation...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Predictive Coding But Were Afraid to Ask
When I was a lawyer at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, in the early 1990s, I worked on this crazy case in federal court involving electronic records preserved in the last days of the Reagan White House, following the Iran Contra Affair. The lead counsel...
More Inspiration from 11-Year-Old Sarah Murnaghan
Former client Sarah Murnaghan continues to inspire not just children and adults fighting disease but anyone facing difficulty. In June 2013, Steve Harvey filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of Sarah asking that she not be discriminated against based on her age...