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Chris Mondics covers legal affairs for The Inquirer as a member of the business news staff. Before joining the business department in April 2007, he was a Washington correspondent for The Inquirer, covering the impeachment of President Clinton, the collapse of Enron and Arthur Andersen, the 9/11 attacks and the 9/11 Commission investigation. He also has covered the global pharmaceuticals industry, and was The Inquirer’s investigative reporter on the 2000 presidential race.

Before joining the Washington bureau, Mondics was The Inquirer’s bureau chief in Trenton, where he covered Gov. Christie Whitman and other political leaders.

 

 

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Judge won't reinstate Saudi Arabia in 9/11 lawsuit
Chris Mondics, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Posted 03/15/2012
A federal district court judge has turned down a motion by lawyers for thousands of 9/11 victims and commercial insurers that Saudi Arabia be reinstated as a defendant in their lawsuit seeking compensation.
Michael Kwasnik was accused of running a scheme that bilked investors of millions.
Ethics office slow to act in Kwasnik case
By Chris Mondics, Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted 12/28/2011
Law Review: A N.J. office supervising attorney ethics says it knew of a lawyer's alleged misdeeds since 2006.
 
More coverage of financial crimes against the elderly, plus resources to help
Lawyer Shestack was great inspiration - 09/02/2011
By Chris Mondics, Inquirer Staff Writer
Law Review: This leading human-rights activist advised presidents and inspired many in life.
Former U.S. prosecutor now on the defense side in federal probe - 07/24/2011
By Chris Mondics, Inquirer Staff Writer
As a former assistant U.S. attorney in Philadelphia, Michael A. Schwartz was acutely aware of the enormous power a prosecutor wields. But it wasn't until he left the Justice Department and became a white-collar defense lawyer that he truly grasped how a government case can take a terribly wrong turn.
Villanova's unseemly silence over law-school scandal - 06/12/2011
By Chris Mondics, Inquirer Staff Writer
Four months nearly to the day after Villanova University disclosed its law school had inflated grade-point averages and other admissions data, seemingly to improve its ranking in the pernicious yet all-too-closely followed U.S. News & World Report survey, the university appears to have settled on a communications strategy.
As scams target elderly, legal niche booms - 06/23/2009
By Chris Mondics, Inquirer Staff Writer
For a little while, at least until the police arrived with an arrest warrant, it must have seemed like the perfect crime.
The ins and outs of law-firm mergers - 05/17/2011
By Chris Mondics, Inquirer Staff Writer
It took the Haddonfield law firm of Archer & Greiner P.C. nearly five years of painstaking research and negotiation before landing a long-desired merger partner in North Jersey, a deal completed May 2 when the two firms officially combined.
How an estate was pilfered - 04/28/2011
By Chris Mondics, Inquirer Staff Writer
Law Review: Lawyer John D. Jordan was asked to find out what happened to an estate once worth almost a half-million dollars. What he found shocked him and the church that was expected to get the proceeds. Even more surprising? The case was prosecuted in court.


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