PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Corporate Counsel
Gina Passarella and Shannon Green
Corporate Counsel
March 20, 2012
This article was written in collaboration with The Legal Intelligencer, a sibling publication of CorpCounsel.com.
The decision by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to place its general counsel on administrative leave appears to be the latest move in an effort by the new archbishop to bring in new outside and in-house legal counsel.
The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported Saturday that Archdiocese General Counsel Timothy Coyne was placed on administrative leave.
A source with knowledge of the decision told The Legal Intelligencer Monday that the parameters of the administrative leave are unclear even to the source, but said the expectation is that Coyne will not be returning.
Coyne has been with the archdiocese for six years, and prior to that was with Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, which had served for several decades as outside counsel for the Philadelphia church.
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