A Judge Angered a Politically Connected Law Firm, Then Quickly Lost Her Job
Lawyers at Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano had a beef with a Philadelphia workers compensation judge who ruled against them, so they told a member of the governor’s staff that the judge was romantically involved with a local workers’ comp lawyer.
Three months later, Judge Andrea McCormick was out of a job, reports The Inquirer of Philadelphia.
“State investigators say they responded to Pond Lehocky’s complaint by pulling eight years of McCormick emails and determined that she had violated multiple policies: using her work computer to make online purchases and exchange personal photos, and sharing court decisions before they were officially posted online, among other alleged offenses,” writes the Inquirer‘s William Bender.
“We never asked for anyone to be terminated,” Pond Lehocky partner David Stern said in an email.
