Posted on 01/31/2012 7:08:36 PM PST by Miami Vice
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - Pennsylvania is known as the Quaker State and Philadelphia as the Quaker City because both were founded by William Penn, who was a member of the Society of Friends - also called Quakers.
Quakers hold to "a belief in the possibility of direct, unmediated communion with the Divine."
Some would suggest, however, that Philadelphia's courts are anything but divinely inspired.
The January edition ...
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Penn would be vastly disappointed in what Philadelphia has become. Pennsylvania as a whole, less so.
Oh, and there has to be some reason that “Philadelphia lawyer” is a synonym for shyster.
I live in Valley Forge and love when I see ads for personal injury lawyers that say in the fine print- Pennsylvania cases taken mainly in Philadelphia county, or close to that.
I wonder why?
Interesting I never noticed that before.
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