On February 26, 2025, Law360 published an Expert Analysis authored by Kang Haggerty senior counsel Aaron Peskin, on How DOGE’s Severance Plan May Affect Federal Employees. To say that President Donald Trump’s administration is off to a fast start would be quite the understatement. The administration, working through Elon Musk’s…
Kang Haggerty member Kyle Garabedian is quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer article by reporter Abraham Gutman, on a federal lawsuit claiming that notices of traffic violations captured on speed and red-light cameras in Philadelphia mislead car owners, and that the programs offer little-to-no path for drivers to dispute the tickets.…
Kang Haggerty LLC recently announced the addition of attorneys from the Marlton, New Jersey-based Ferrara Law Group, including its founding partners, Ralph Ferrara and Aaron Peskin, along with associate Joshua Hirshey. “We are thrilled to welcome Ralph, Aaron, and Josh to the firm,” said Edward T. Kang, Managing Member of…
Two doctrines frequently arise in Pennsylvania jurisprudence when addressing disputes between the parties to a contract: the parol evidence rule and the gist of the action doctrine. While each serves a distinct purpose, their application often overlaps, especially in fraud cases between the parties to a contract. Understanding both rules…
Federal Rule of Evidence 502 governs the treatment of inadvertent disclosures of privileged attorney-client communications or work-product materials. While Rule 502 is an evidence rule, the cases interpreting and applying it focus on its impact on the scope of discovery. Enacted by Congress in 2008, it was designed to address…
Each country has its own business sensibilities, many of which are more focused on interpersonal relationships or norms that do not always line up with the United States’ more formalistic business practices. In the February 6, 2025 edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Kyle Garabedian writes, “EB-5 Immigration Investor Program: a…
On Monday, January 6, 2025, Kandis Kovalsky joins Dave Jochnowitz of Outten & Golden and TAF’s Grace Swindler to present a webinar for TAF members on how to stay involved as a whistleblower attorney. The Anti-Fraud Coaltiion (“TAF”) is a public interest, non-profit organization dedicated to defending and empowering whistleblowers…
While vigorous efforts have been made to push the courts to interpret the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) with an increasingly broad preemptive scope, effectively overriding state laws designed to regulate arbitration, recent decisions underscore that courts are not willing to uphold arbitration agreements when fairness and justice might be compromised.…
The U.S. Constitution, which remains the bedrock of American civil rights, serves to establish a minimum level of protection that states are bound to uphold. Some state constitutions provide more expansive and detailed protections for state residents—meaning that rather than treating state constitutional claims as an afterthought, litigants can center…
Kang Haggerty has once again received national and regional recognition in the 15th edition of the United States Best Law Firms® rankings. The firm’s construction law practice received a national ranking in Tier 2 for Construction Law, and Litigation – Construction. In the rankings for the Philadelphia metro region, Kang…