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Computergate, corporate tax, Gordon & Rees, Highmark, Jane Orie, Joan Orie Melvin, K&L, reassessment, UPMC
- Justice Joan Orie Melvin has been recusing herself from Allegheny cases ever since her sister Jane was indicted, and it’s led to a deadlock in a couple of cases. Various law professors speculate about what it all means. [Post-Gazette]
- More than 21,000 property owners had challenged their property assessments by the 6:00 pm deadline today. [Post-Gazette]
- K&L Gates moves to dismiss a legal malpractice case stemming from the “Computergate” scandal. [Legal Intelligencer]
- A plan that’d make corporations pay higher taxes has advanced through the state house. Somehow I think it’s doomed during an election year, but what do I know. [PA Indy]
- San Francisco’s tenth biggest law firm, Gordon & Rees, is opening an office here. [Pittsburgh Business Times]
- This is a couple days old but interesting: WSJ examines the Highmark-UPMC conflict and decides that “Pittsburgh is the canary in the coal mine” of the health care industry. We just can’t get away from the coal mines, can we? [WSJ]
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