Associate Catelyn McDonough joined fellow female attorneys in Philadelphia today for a Women’s Roundtable Discussion hosted by The Legal Intelligencer. Attorneys from leading Philadelphia firms such as Cozen O’Connor, Fox Rothschild and Anapol Weiss participated in a virtual roundtable to discuss topics applicable to women in law today, with the goal of raising visibility, generating solutions, and connecting with community. Applicants...

Colleen M. Swiers, Litigation Fellow at Anapol Weiss and the first recipient of the Anapol Weiss Fellowship Program with Villanova University Law School, has been admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar on a provisional basis. Colleen is now admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under a limited license as she waits to take the Pennsylvania Bar examination, which...

Jury Trials in Philadelphia are Postponed to 2021 The First Judicial District of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, due to ongoing concerns relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, will not schedule a civil jury trial until Monday, January 4, 2021. What does this mean for you? If you had a trial scheduled before January 4, 2021, we will make sure...

Anapol Weiss Shareholders Tom Anapol and Tracy Finken, along with Partner Shayna Slater, hosted the firm’s first client-facing informational webinar this week. Tracy Finken has been named co-lead counsel in the Zantac multi-district litigation, and Tom and Shayna are both nationwide leaders in mass tort pharmaceutical and product liability litigation. The firm’s mass tort department represents clients in a variety...

Anapol Weiss Shareholder Gregory Spizer was recently featured in The Legal Intelligencer discussing the timely news of business interruption claims. In his article, Insurers Refuse to Pay Business Interruption Claims Caused by Pandemic, Spizer discusses the currently widespread recent trend of insurance companies denying businesses’ interruption claims due to the coronavirus, and what businesses can do to fight back. What...

In his recent editorial contribution to The Legal Intelligencer, Anapol Weiss Associate Joshua C. Cohan discusses what legal counsel should be aware of when courts reopen from the coronavirus pandemic. In his article How the Pandemic Could Change Jurors' Attitudes and Biases, Cohan argues that juror opinion will likely shift as a result of the global crisis, and this is...