Rising Concern about little-known cause for lung disease
Accidents related to workplace safety violations happen every day across America. However, some workplace risks are more subtle and lack adequate attention. Silicosis, a little-known but deadly cause of lung disease, is one such risk that has been overlooked yet impacts thousands of workers. A recent opinion piece in The Atlantic, bylined by former OSHA […]
IARC’s Latest Evaluation: Automotive Gasoline Causes Cancer
In Feb-March 2025, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a division of the World Health Organization, published a groundbreaking study concluding that exposure to automotive gasoline can cause cancer in humans. This key development confirms what Andrew DuPont and Locks Law Firm’s benzene exposure team have been arguing before juries for years: That […]
How Personal Technology Can Help You Navigate Legal Matters
IntroductionTechnology plays a big role in our everyday lives. It helps us stay organized, communicate better, and make complicated tasks easier. Did you know that personal technology can also make handling legal matters a little less overwhelming? In this article, we’ll explore how simple tools like smartphones, tablets, video services, and apps can make it […]
Dacthal Pesticide Ban: EPA Falls Short Again, Inaction Fails to Protect the Unborn
Locks Law Firm is accepting birth defect cases on behalf of children suffering from low birth weight, decreased IQ, and impaired brain development and motor skills due to exposure to the herbicide Dacthal (“DCPA” or “dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate”).
Paraquat and Parkinsons
Paraquat is an herbicide marketed for use in the United States by Syngenta under the brand name Gramoxene. American Farmworkers and those in commercial agricultural settings are most highly affected by exposure to Paraquat. It is highly toxic to humans and animals who are exposed to the chemical. Despite Paraquat being banned in more than […]
Impella Heart Pump Device Recall
Impella left-sided heart pumps are used to support the blood-pumping ventricles of the heart during surgery for opening a blocked artery or clearing blockages after a heart attack. They may also be used during open heart surgery, post-heart attack, when an individual’s heart has been damaged to the extent that it can no longer supply […]
My Career at Locks Law Firm
As I approach a forty-one year career working for Locks Law Firm (Greitzer and Locks when I started), and thirty-nine years as an attorney for the firm, I find myself thinking about the eighth and final stage of Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development (that’s what happens when you are married to a psychoanalyst). To simplify, […]
Partner Andrew DuPont along with colleagues at Justice for our Neighbors – Delaware Valley, to host CLE on Humanitarian Relief Available to Afghan Nationals Under the U.S. Immigration & Nationality Act
Locks Law Firm partner Andrew DuPont and his colleagues at JFON-DV are hosting a CLE on Humanitarian Relief Available to Afghan Nationals Under the U.S. Immigration & Nationality Act. The CLE will take place on September 29th at 12:30 pm. Proceeds benefit JFON-DV’s pro bono and low bono representation of immigrants in PA, NJ, DE […]
“Significant levels of toxic heavy metals” found in popular baby foods: report
On Thursday, February 4, 2021 the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy for the House of Representatives published a staff report titled “Baby Foods are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium, and Mercury.” The Subcommittee, relying on internal company test results from Nurture, Beech-Nut, Hain and Gerber found that all tested baby foods […]
Looking to the Future: American Law in 2021
Respect has been on my mind throughout my almost 50 years as a lawyer, but never more so than over the last four. A recurring thought: How are we, who honor our profession and its goals, to expect respect from the public, our clients, when an outgoing President gives out pardons to convicted felons like […]
Partner Jennifer Emmons’ $4 Million Award for Birth Injury Case
Partner Jennifer L. Emmons represented a little girl, now 7 years old, whose arm was injured during her birth. During the delivery and after the baby’s head came out, her shoulder got stuck. This is referred to in obstetrics as a shoulder dystocia. There was evidence that the nurse midwife, who was the only obstetrical provider […]
RBG, A Father, & Daughters
As a law student in 1970, the upheaval of the 60’s was a part of my thinking as I sat in my first class in Civil Procedure. As I looked around the classroom in what was an old repurposed factory building, I noticed many women about to take on law school with me. I confess […]