On December 8, 2008, the new Uniform Municipal Deed Registration Act took effect in Pennsylvania, providing a more timely process for recording deeds in counties and also for registering deeds in local municipalities.
Its purpose is to counteract land fraud by requiring prompt public recording of land transfer documents and by allowing municipalities to set additional [...]
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Stealing Houses by Words and Deeds
Billing Rates Continue to Rise
The economy may be slowing, but billing rates continued to rise, according to information provided by 127 legal firms that responded to billing questions submitted as part of the NLJ 250, The National Law Journal’s annual survey of the nation’s largest legal firms.
Billings climbed by an average of 4.3%, 70.6% of firms increased billings this [...]
