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Question: One of my residents continues to violate our Community Rules, and another still refuses to pay rent. And now, I understand that I cannot evict them until after December. When will the madness end? Answer: As you may know, Governor Wolf’s ...

Despite expectations that the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) would release new Title IX regulations last fall, the final version of the new Title IX rule was not issued until half a year later on May 6, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A number of ...

The Parent Education Program is a mandatory program for litigants with children to attend. Both litigants are required, by statute, to attend the program, but are scheduled for different dates. It takes place at the courthouse, or via Zoom or ...

For their September legal minute in The NEXT Academy Podcast with Chad Jones and Cody Phillips, John Greenhall and Lisa Wampler highlight the importance of preserving rights on lien waivers, change order forms, and other payment documents. In this ...

First, the other party is served with the Complaint for Divorce or Acknowledges the Complaint for Divorce and files a responsive pleading; an Answer, an Appearance, or an Answer and Counterclaim for Divorce.  If they don’t answer, a default can ...

On September 4, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a temporary halt to residential evictions as an emergency order to prevent the further spread of COVID-19. The order is effective from September 4 through December ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in March, Cohen Seglias sought a way to support our local communities. Throughout the spring and summer, the firm donated over 1,000 face shields to the hospitals that were hit the hardest during the ...

Despite 18 attorneys general, including Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, and Washington, DC, vigorously challenging the substance of the new Title IX Regulations (the Final Rule) and its August 14 effective date by filing a Motion for Preliminary ...

We are pleased to announce that 12 Cohen Seglias attorneys are included in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, almost doubling the number of recognized attorneys from 2020. Lawyers are selected for inclusion based on an exhaustive ...

Last summer, we advised that the Pennsylvania legislature was considering a bill that would require all construction industry employers, on both public and private projects, to use the E-Verify program operated by the Department of Homeland Security ...

Paul Thaler spoke with The Michigan Daily about the imbalance of power between students and their research professors in regard to reporting misconduct and abuse. The University of Michigan prides itself on being one of the nation’s top public ...

Today’s construction projects are larger and more complex than ever before. If you look across the Philadelphia skyline, as in most major cities across the country and around the globe, you will see throngs of tower cranes leading the way for ...

No one would have bet that the Department of Education would have released the new Title IX regulations amid a pandemic. As colleges were scrambling to adjust to the new normal of virtual learning—and all of the challenges that brought—the ...

Ed Seglias spoke with Construction Dive about key elements contractors need to consider before signing onto a project. The article, “5 Red Flags That a Job Might Not Be Worth the Risk” outlines potential red flags for those taking on ...

The job of a Custody Evaluator is to make a determination regarding the best interests of the child. Depending on the facts of your case, an evaluator’s determination regarding the “best interests” may include whether a party should have sole ...

Question: My tenants keep telling me that they are not responsible to pay the rent that was due during the COVID-19 emergency that Governor Wolf declared. How does the Governor have the authority to tell my tenants that they do not have to pay their ...

Contractors who have been following COVID-19 safety requirements now have all the more reason to do so in New York City. Starting July 8, 2020, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) resumed issuing penalties for non-compliance with current ...

Cohen Seglias partners Julie Grohovsky and Shanlon Wu obtained an important civil settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and numerous state attorneys general’s offices against Universal Health Services, Inc. and UHS of Delaware, Inc. ...

Pennsylvania landlords’ ability to proceed with evictions against tenants who have not paid rent has been furthered delayed by two recent actions. First, on July 9, 2020, Governor Wolf issued a new Executive Order that extends his statewide ...

Since the pandemic began, the backlog of cases in the New Jersey court system has more than doubled. Case backlogs are growing fastest in the Family Part. According to the Administrative Office of the Courts, which monitors this data, the backlog in ...