Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of MyPhillyLawyer: Our Thanks to You, Our Clients

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the creation of the MyPhillyLawyer brand in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. From the streets of Philadelphia's incredible neighborhoods to the Jersey Shore, to Delaware, Maryland and north to Allentown, Easton and Bethlehem, the attorneys and staff of MyPhillyLawyer work hard every day to serve a diverse range of clients who are involved in a myriad of legal cases. From personal injury cases to automobile, motorcycle, truck and other...

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Big Brother Car Insurance Companies: Should You Let Your Insurance Company Track Your Driving Habits to Earn a Discount?

Maybe it sounds like a great idea – plug a device into your car that let's your insurance company see that you are a good driver so that you can get an additional discount of up to 30 percent on your insurance rates. But before you sign up, think again. Maybe it's a deal with the devil that you are considering. That's the concern we have with the Snapshot Pay-As-You-Drive program from Progressive Insurance. Progressive,...

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Occupy Philly: What Do You Think About It? Listen to Court Radio at 7 a.m. Sunday

The headline-grabbing, controversial Occupy Wall Street movement, and its local offshoot, Occupy Philly, will be the topics of discussion on Sunday morning's Court Radio show with MyPhillyLawyer’s managing partner, Dean Weitzman. The show, which will air live tomorrow, Nov. 20, at 7 a.m. on WRNB 100.3 FM, will include special guest Everett Gillison, who is the newly-appointed chief of staff for Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter. Gillison previously served as Nutter's Deputy Mayor for Public...

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MyPhillyLawyer Attorney Profile: Kenneth C. Edelin Jr. Brings Criminal Defense Experience and Respect for His Clients to His Work

After graduating from Morehouse College with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1990, Ken Edelin Jr. went to work as a counselor in a Washington, D.C. community-based shelter for teens who got themselves into very serious trouble with the law. The shelter was a place for them to stay until the courts decided what to do with them, including options from probation to prison. [caption id="attachment_1472" align="alignright" width="161" caption="Kenneth C. Edelin Jr. "][/caption] It was...

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Injured on the job when a massive tornado leveled Joplin, Mo., Mark Lindquist’s worker’s comp claims were denied – until a public outcry finally brought justice

A classic example for why you need a lawyer to represent you when talking with insurance companies COURT RADIO ALERT: This case will be the topic of MyPhillyLawyer's weekly Court Radio program tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. ET: Listen in to Court Radio with MyPhillyLawyer's Dean Weitzman on 100.3 WRNB FM, Philadelphia or at RNBPHILLY.com and join the discussion live on the air. When a massive EF-5 tornado hit Joplin, Mo., last May 22, 51-year-old...

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MyPhillyLawyer Attorney Profile: Saul L. Langsam, Founding Partner and Compassionate Advocate for His Clients

As a boy, Saul Langsam was encouraged and inspired by his parents to do something good in the world, to make a mark, to help people. His parents, who were both born in Poland, were Holocaust survivors who were held in separate German prison camps during World War II. Somehow they survived, eventually ending up in Sweden after the war, where they met and later married. Langsam was born in Falun, Sweden, and lived there...

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The Death Penalty in the United States: Is It Time To Rethink Our Views?

Last month, Georgia prison inmate Troy Davis was put to death by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request for a last-minute stay of execution. Davis had been convicted in the 1989 slaying of an off-duty police officer but right up until he was put to death, he insisted that he was innocent of the crime. Sure, that's what suspects usually say after they are apprehended, but in this case, many thousands...

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Is It Time To Rethink the Death Penalty? Listen In Sunday at 7 AM on MyPhillyLawyer Court Radio

MyPhillyLawyer's Dean Weitzman will host his weekly Court Radio show tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. on a very important topic -- "Is It Time To Rethink The Death Penalty?" Weitzman's special guest on the program will be Phil Harris, an associate professor of criminal justice at Temple University. His teaching and research have focused primarily on the areas of juvenile justice, juvenile correctional strategies, and organizational and system development. He received his Ph.D. from the...

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Truck driver in deadly train-truck crash was using a cell phone just before impact

Such incidents are behind a federal effort that's underway to ban truckers, bus drivers from using cell phones while driving It's dangerous enough when drivers of automobiles and SUVs operate their vehicles on our roadways while using hand-held cell phones to talk or text. It's even worse when the driver using the cell phone is operating a huge, 80,000-pound tractor-trailer, which takes longer to stop and is much less nimble or controllable than a much...

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