Dougherty Leventhal & Price LLP–DLP-is proud to announce that partner Brian Price who is fluent in Spanish and heads the firm’s Latino Client Unit has once again been named a Super Lawyer by Philadelphia Magazine. Attorney Price is one of a few Super Lawyers fluent in Spanish and the ONLY Super Lawyer in NEPA with… Read more »
Dougherty Leventhal & Price LLP—DLP–is proud to announce that Partners Cal Leventhal and Tom Cummings who head the firm’s worker compensation unit along with John Finnerty, have been named Pennsylvania Super Lawyers by Philadelphia Magazine. It is believed that Attorney Leventhal is the only resident attorney from Wayne County who received the Super Lawyer honor…. Read more »
Issues surrounding the natural gas boom in Pennsylvania continue to make the news. In NEPA, UGI announced that due to increased natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale Region it will be LOWERING home heating gas prices in 2013. This reduction is similar to price reductions last year. The price of natural gas is at… Read more »
The Fair Labor Standards Act provides employees with valuable wage and hour rights. These include the right to full pay for all time spent working and the right to time and one half overtime pay for hours worked over 40 hours in a work week. Some common FLSA violations are where companies fail to give… Read more »
On Tuesday, I conducted depositions in the case of one of our Spanish speaking clients. She was quite nervous about giving testimony. However, I was able to speak to her in her native language before the deposition and my Spanish speaking staff also put her at ease. By the time that the testimony started, she was… Read more »
Mary was working as a clerk and had the choice of either eating her lunch on her employer’s premises or going out of the office to eat her lunch. There was a strip mall across the road from Mary’s employer that included a food store and a doughnut shop. One day while on lunch break,… Read more »
Reports today note that Democratic Legislators in Harrisburg have filed a “friends of the court ” brief in Commonwealth Court. The brief was filed in the case challenging the zoning portions of Act 34. Several local municipalities challenged the new law over zoning provisions that give the state and natural gas drillers control over gas… Read more »
Mary’s husband Todd was killed as a result of his attempt to repair an airbrake line on a trailer that his truck was pulling. Todd’s employer, Wrong Way Trucking Company, took the position that Todd was an independent contractor since Todd had signed an agreement stating that he was in fact an independent contractor… Read more »
The Mediation began at 1:30 PM. At 7:30 PM, the parties were still working to hammer out a settlement in a product liability claim where DLP’s client was hurt at work and suffered a serious arm injury. Using an experienced former Judge, myself and Attorney Brian J. Walsh were able to argue the law of product… Read more »
Question- I was hurt on the job last summer. I returned to light duty work in the fall and was earning the same pay as when I got hurt. For years now, I’ve been having issues with the owner of the company. He and I never got along. At the company Christmas party, I told him… Read more »
