Legal Insights

Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court accepted jurisdiction to consider whether confirmation of an “upset tax sale” was proper where the property, nearly 53 acres of land located in Tioga County and valued at $465,000, sold for $83,000, about 18% of its fair market value. Ostapowicz v. Tioga Cty. Tax Claim Bureau (In re Upset Sale), 349 A.3d 933, 936 (Pa. 2026). Martin J. Ostapowicz, the property owner (“Owner”), raised due process violations for lack of notice an

Earlier this month the Illinois Supreme Court adopted a new rule, Rule 300, pertaining to petitions for the recovery of attorneys’ fees, made minor revisions to Rule 795, pertaining to continuing legal education, and made significant amendments to two Rules of Professional Conduct, Rules 1.6 and 7.2, to define and address the relatively recent development of “intermediary connecting services” (ICS) used by attorneys to generate new business.