http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics RSS Feed for Inq Col Chris Mondics en-us Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:00:00 GMT 2012-03-16T07:00:00Z en-us http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics/20120316_Judge_refuses_to_reinstate_Saudi_Arabia_as_defendant_in_9_11_lawsuit.html 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. Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics/20120316_Judge_refuses_to_reinstate_Saudi_Arabia_as_defendant_in_9_11_lawsuit.html 2012-03-16T07:00:00Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics/20111228_Law_Review__Office_of_Attorney_Ethics_acted_slowly_in_Kwasnik_case.html It has been almost two months since Philadelphia lawyer Michael Kwasnik was charged with stealing more than $1 million from an elderly Cherry Hill widow and accused in a lawsuit by New Jersey Attorney General Paula Dow of running a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors of many millions more. Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:08:29 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics/20111228_Law_Review__Office_of_Attorney_Ethics_acted_slowly_in_Kwasnik_case.html 2011-12-28T21:08:29Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics/20110902_Law_Review__Lawyer_Jerome_J__Shestack_inspired_many_others.html As a Washington reporter for The Inquirer during the tumultuous years of the President Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings and, later, the 9/11 attacks and the war in Iraq, I certainly knew of Jerome J. Shestack, the prominent Philadelphia lawyer who died Aug. 18 at age 88. Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:36:55 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics/20110902_Law_Review__Lawyer_Jerome_J__Shestack_inspired_many_others.html 2011-09-02T19:36:55Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics/20110724_Law_Review__Former_U_S__prosecutor_now_on_the_defense_side_in_federal_probe.html 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. Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:35:57 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics/20110724_Law_Review__Former_U_S__prosecutor_now_on_the_defense_side_in_federal_probe.html 2011-07-24T16:35:57Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics/20110612_Law_Review__Villanova_s_unseemly_silence_over_law-school_scandal.html 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. Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:01:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics/20110612_Law_Review__Villanova_s_unseemly_silence_over_law-school_scandal.html 2011-06-12T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics/20110517_Law_Review__The_ins_and_outs_of_law-firm_mergers.html 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. Tue, 17 May 2011 09:58:22 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics/20110517_Law_Review__The_ins_and_outs_of_law-firm_mergers.html 2011-05-17T09:58:22Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics/20110428_Law_Review__Why_so_many_financial_crimes_against_elderly_go_unpunished.html Gladys Willard died at 97, leaving her estate to Emmanuel United Methodist Church of Penns Grove, N.J., where she and her husband, who had passed away a few years before, had long been members. Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:50:24 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics/20110428_Law_Review__Why_so_many_financial_crimes_against_elderly_go_unpunished.html 2011-06-06T20:50:24Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics/20090623_Law_Review__As_scams_target_elderly__a_legal_niche_also_booms.html For a little while, at least until the police arrived with an arrest warrant, it must have seemed like the perfect crime. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:46:53 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/chris-mondics/20090623_Law_Review__As_scams_target_elderly__a_legal_niche_also_booms.html 2011-11-30T15:46:53Z