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First Posted: 8/19/2014 The Wilkes-Barre Law and Library Association, the bar association of Luzerne County, and the Lackawanna Bar Association recently sponsored a continuing legal education seminar on Pennsylvania federal and state practice at the Mohegan Sun Hotel and Conference Center. The seminar was hosted by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and featured Justice Correale F. Stevens and a panel of other judges. Judge Jack Panella, from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, was one of the speakers. At the state trial level, the President Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna and Luzerne County spoke about civil and criminal trial procedures and judicial administration. Judge John E. Jones III of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania spoke on recent federal case law developments. Some of the participants, from left: attorney Joseph P.J. Burke III, executive director, Luzerne County Bar; Panella; Jones; Lee Ann Munley, executive director, Lackawanna County Bar; Stevens; and Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas President Judge Thomas F. Burke Jr.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court hosts seminar