After graduating from Morehouse College with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1990, Ken Edelin Jr. went to work as a counselor in a Washington, D.C. community-based shelter for teens who got themselves into very serious trouble with the law. The shelter was a place for them to stay until the courts decided what to…

A classic example for why you need a lawyer to represent you when talking with insurance companies COURT RADIO ALERT: This case will be the topic of MyPhillyLawyer’s weekly Court Radio program tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. ET: Listen in to Court Radio with MyPhillyLawyer’s Dean Weitzman on 100.3 WRNB FM, Philadelphia or at RNBPHILLY.com…

As a boy, Saul Langsam was encouraged and inspired by his parents to do something good in the world, to make a mark, to help people. His parents, who were both born in Poland, were Holocaust survivors who were held in separate German prison camps during World War II. Somehow they survived, eventually ending up…

MyPhillyLawyer’s Dean Weitzman will host his weekly Court Radio show tomorrow morning, Sunday, at 7 a.m. on a very important topic — “What You Need to Know If You Are Involved in a Car Accident.” Court Radio is broadcast every Sunday at 7 a.m. on WRNB 100.3 FM in the Philadelphia metropolitan area or listen…

Errors by doctors, nurses, hospitals and other staff members happen regularly. The best protection for you and your loved ones is to know your rights. A 51-year-old Lehigh Valley nun was admitted into a hospital last Dec. 21 with flu-like symptoms. A little more than two weeks later, she was dead, with her death caused…

Last month, Georgia prison inmate Troy Davis was put to death by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request for a last-minute stay of execution. Davis had been convicted in the 1989 slaying of an off-duty police officer but right up until he was put to death, he insisted that he was…