The office in the news:  We are happy to report a successful result in a major Pennsylvania appellate decision, which has been described as “the first time an appellate court in Pennsylvania has put all the law together in one place at one time and talked about the kind of evidence a debt buyer needs to prove an alleged debt,” as reported in The Allentown Morning Call. The Superior Court of Pennsylvania, decided in Commonwealth Financial v. Smith, 2011 Pa.Super. 30, a case it described as one of “first impression,” that debt buyers indeed have their limits, and cannot dictate to the courts or the public that they have the right to an easy judgment because, “that’s the way it’s done in the industry.”  The case is one of the first times that the courts in Pennsylvania have decisively struck back at debt buyers.  For more on the topic, go here.