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Compliance Specialist Joins Tucker Arensberg In Pittsburgh
Tucker Arensberg PC expanded its Pittsburgh office with this week's addition of a former Hogan Lovells attorney who specializes in corporate and compliance law.
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Eckert Seamans Names Former DLA Piper Exec As Firm COO
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC has added a chief operating officer who was previously in a senior business position at DLA Piper, the firm announced on Monday.
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White And Williams Promotes Two To Lead Employment Group
White and Williams LLP has prepared for the spring retirement of one of its practice leaders with the promotion this month of two partners to co-chair the labor and employment group.
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Judge Sidelines Early Release Bid By Disbarred NJ Atty
A New Jersey federal judge has rejected a former attorney's bid to shorten his four-year sentence for wire fraud in order to care for his elderly mother, ruling that he wasn't able to show that his mother is incapacitated or that he is the only available caregiver.
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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2024 Editorial Boards
Law360 is looking for avid readers of its publications to serve as members of its 2024 editorial advisory boards.
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Partners Take the Lead as Law Firm Rates Continue to Rise
Law firms have continued to raise billing rates in 2023, according to a report released Friday that broke down average billable rates across timekeeper roles, including partners, associates and paralegals.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, as a New York federal judge ruled in favor of a pair of photographers who launched separate but related copyright infringement suits alleging that well-known appropriation artist Richard Prince stole their work.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Wiggin and Dana handling a $1.8 billion aerospace acquisition and Morgan & Morgan winning an interim lead counsel battle lead off this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Jan. 12 to 26.
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How Clients Are Contributing To Law Firm Well-Being
Outside counsel are often trained to respond to email at all hours and deliver on requests from corporate clients posthaste, a culture of on-demand service that has played a part in mental health challenges in the profession. In recent years, though, some clients have begun to push for a paradigm shift.
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Ballard Spahr Litigation Leader Moves To Morgan Lewis
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP continued the expansion of its Philadelphia office this week with the addition of a former Ballard Spahr partner who moved her litigation practice to the firm.
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How To Climb From Acting To Permanent GC
Lawyers who were recently interim general counsel say that successfully serving in the role meant finding ways to make their mark and build their own brand — and doing so in a subtle manner — to land the job permanently.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry’s busy January continued this week as BigLaw firms elevated attorneys and expanded their reach into growing markets. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
January saw a string of notable office moves by national and regional firms across the country as outfits including Blank Rome LLP, Duane Morris LLP and others announced changes to their footprints.
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Pa. Atty Suspended For Conduct In Cat Food Case
A Philadelphia-area attorney has been suspended from practicing law for a year and a day, after the state's disciplinary board concluded he repeatedly and publicly misrepresented facts in a case against J.M. Smucker Co. over a cat food recall, and in three other cases as well.
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Armstrong Teasdale Adds Trademark Partner In Philly
Armstrong Teasdale LLP has added the chair of the intellectual property practice at Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP to its Philadelphia office, the firm announced Thursday.
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Littler Adds 5 Board Members In US And Europe
Management-side labor and employment firm Littler Mendelson PC announced five additions to its board of directors, elevating three women and two men in four U.S. offices and one European location.
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Why Lawyers Would Benefit From Honing Their 'Rest Ethic'
The legal field is brimming with people who are intimately familiar with work ethic, but often don't know how to adequately and effectively rest in order to be their most effective selves, according to a Thursday presentation at the Institute for Well-Being in Law's 2024 Virtual Annual Conference.
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Law Firms Expanded Recruiting Reach Even As Hiring Slowed
As overall lateral hiring slowed in 2023, a new report from Leopard Solutions found that the top 200 U.S. law firms have continued to extend their recruitment efforts beyond their usual networks, bringing in attorneys from smaller firms at the same rate as their BigLaw counterparts.
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How 6 States Are Addressing Lawyer Well-Being
In the years since a groundbreaking 2016 study on lawyer well-being found alarming rates of mental health problems in the legal profession, state bars and supreme courts have amped up efforts to improve lawyer mental health. Well-being leaders in six states shared details of their work at the IWIL 2024 Virtual Annual Conference on Wednesday.
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Is A Boom In Remote Work Tempering Virtual Firms' Growth?
Following a period of rapid expansion, the headcount growth at some virtual-oriented law firms has leveled off in recent years, a shift some attribute to the widespread adoption of remote work policies by traditional brick-and-mortar law firms and increased productivity fueled by integrating new technologies.
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Former Judge Andrew F. Szefi Joins Knox Law's ADR Practice
A former Allegheny County judge will continue to preside over civil disputes as a mediator after recently joining Knox McLaughlin Gornall & Sennett P.C.'s Pittsburgh office.
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Mullen Coughlin Expands To UK With London Partner Hire
Pennsylvania-based cybersecurity firm Mullen Coughlin LLC announced its expansion into the U.K. with the hire of a London-based cybersecurity partner who's spent over a decade working on data security and incident response matters.
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Nelson Mullins Names New Leaders Of Bankruptcy Group
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP tapped partners Shane Ramsey and Dylan Trache to co-chair the bankruptcy and financial restructuring practice group, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Pa. Debt Relief Firms Settle AG's Deception Claims
A pair of law firms advertising debt settlement services will pay a total of at least $75,000 to their former clients as part of a settlement with the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office to end allegations of deceptive advertising and telemarketing, the office announced Wednesday.
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Dilworth Paxson Absorbs Philly-Area Trust And Estate Firm
Philadelphia-based Dilworth Paxson LLP announced Tuesday that it's absorbing the small firm Yorkway Law Group, a step that expands the firm's trust and estate practice and bolsters its presence in Bucks County and Montgomery County, areas outside Philadelphia with large numbers of wealthy estate planning clients.