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Rankings: Pennsylvania Powerhouses

  • July 26, 2016

    5 Small(er) But Mighty Litigation Shops

    Five relatively small but fearsome law firms landed a spot on Law360's 2016 list of 50 Litigation Powerhouses after they laced up their gloves and brought the pain in their fights for clients, winning some of the biggest cases over the past year.

  • July 26, 2016

    Law360 Names Top 50 Firms For Litigation

    Historic, precedent-setting wins in class action litigation. Jaw-dropping jury verdicts in courts across the country. Victories in the smartphone wars. Dramatic upsets on appeal. Law360's Litigation Powerhouses leveraged their deep legal talent to score remarkable wins for their clients over the past year, landing them a spot on our inaugural ranking of the top firms for litigation.

  • June 23, 2015

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Reed Smith

    With one of the city's tallest towers bearing the Highmark Inc. logo, one need look no further than Pittsburgh's skyline to understand the insurer's prominent status in Pennsylvania's business community. To understand Reed Smith LLP's status in the state's legal community, meanwhile, one need look no further than its longtime representation of the company, including a major win before the U.S. Supreme Court last year.

  • June 22, 2015

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Pepper Hamilton

    Now in its 125th year, Pepper Hamilton LLP has grown its presence across Pennsylvania and expanded nationally, all while thriving alongside Philadelphia's evolution from a manufacturing-based economy to a hotbed of life sciences and health care innovation.

  • June 19, 2015

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Saul Ewing

    Saul Ewing LLP prides itself on its history, but the firm has also grown and expanded along with Pennsylvania's shifting economy, leveraging its experience with established industries into its more recent role as a driver of Pittsburgh's take on Silicon Valley.

  • June 18, 2015

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Morgan Lewis

    When Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP — whose roots in Philadelphia date to the firm's 1873 founding — added more than 750 attorneys from Bingham McCutchen LLP in November, nothing changed on paper for the firm's two Pennsylvania offices. Bingham, after all, didn't have a single attorney in the state.

  • June 17, 2015

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Duane Morris

    When the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was facing almost daily headlines in 2014 about a then-justice who shared pornographic emails with staffers at the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, the court turned to a firm deeply rooted in the state's legal community to get to the bottom of things: Duane Morris LLP.

  • June 16, 2015

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Buchanan Ingersoll

    Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC's deep roots in Pennsylvania date back to 1850, when the Pittsburgh-based firm first opened its doors to commercial clients seeking a full roster of transactional and litigation services. Today, with the help of offices in Philadelphia and Harrisburg, the firm runs Pennsylvania's largest government relations practice, which recently helped Uber Technologies Inc. secure a foothold in the state.

  • June 15, 2015

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Blank Rome

    A Philadelphia mainstay in corporate law, real estate and litigation since its founding in 1946, Blank Rome LLP embarked on a pattern of impressive national growth in the late 1990s. That expansion, particularly a booming Houston-based energy practice, has finally drawn the firm across the Allegheny range, where it opened a brand new Pittsburgh office in January.

  • June 12, 2015

    Pa. Powerhouses Adapt And Thrive Amid Fierce Competition

    In a state well-known for top-notch legal talent, the veteran firms making up Law360’s list of Pennsylvania Powerhouses for 2015 have capitalized on an ongoing energy and medical boom to fuel growth while expanding their reach in the region and beyond.

  • July 01, 2014

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Stradley Ronon

    At around 3 one morning last May, a new $150 million rail depot along the Delaware River outside Philadelphia received its first shipment of crude from North Dakota's Bakken oil fields, bringing to fruition one of the latest major deals in the region guided by Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP, a longtime go-to firm for businesses in the state. 

  • June 30, 2014

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Saul Ewing

    Few century-old law firms can still lay claim to a client they landed in their first year of existence, but as Saul Ewing LLP approaches its hundred-year mark and its attorneys point to the firm's recent growth into new practice areas, they take pride in representing the venerable Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts — a relationship nearly as old as the firm itself.

  • June 27, 2014

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Reed Smith

    The United States Steel Corp. has undoubtedly seen its share of changes since its inception in 1901, when Carnegie Steel Co. merged with Federal Steel Co. and National Steel Co., becoming the world's first billion-dollar corporation. What hasn't changed is its place among the clientele of Reed Smith LLP, one of few Pennsylvania firms with a history and track record to match it.

  • June 26, 2014

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Morgan Lewis & Bockius

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's more than 140-year history starts in Pennsylvania, and while the firm today has 25 offices from London to Tokyo, it's still the go-to counsel for clients in both the Keystone State's traditional industries and its emerging fields like renewable energy and e-commerce.

  • June 25, 2014

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Hangley Aronchick

    Many firms can boast major victories for their clients, but few wins result in the type of public celebration seen in Philadelphia in May after a federal judge — ruling on a motion filed by attorneys with Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller — struck down Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage.

  • June 24, 2014

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Fox Rothschild

    From its roots in Philadelphia more than a century ago, Fox Rothschild LLP has grown to five offices across Pennsylvania, and thrives through a focus — unusual for a firm of its magnitude — on cultivating an exceptionally broad client base.

  • June 23, 2014

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Duane Morris

    Duane Morris LLP has been a fixture in Pennsylvania since 1904 and boasts a list of corporate and public-sector clients that reflect its historic Keystone State pedigree. The firm also is known as a pipeline for lawyers who seek to become judges and, in some cases, a place where judges returning to private work can find a solid landing spot.

  • June 20, 2014

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Drinker Biddle & Reath

    On the north plaza of Philadelphia City Hall you'll find a tall, bronze statue of prominent 19th century city attorney John Christian Bullitt. And while you won't find Bullitt's name on the marquees of any of Philadelphia's many old-line law offices, the firm he founded in 1849 — Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP — remains a major player in Pennsylvania's legal arena.

  • June 19, 2014

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Dechert

    Unlike many of its other homegrown rivals in Pennsylvania's competitive legal market, Dechert LLP has only one location in the state. That location, in the gracefully soaring Cira Centre, adjacent to the city's 30th Street Station, affords many of the 174 lawyers based there easy Amtrak access to New York, Washington, D.C., and beyond, and it symbolizes the firm's outward orientation. 

  • June 18, 2014

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Cozen O'Connor

    To understand Cozen O'Connor's prominence in Pennsylvania's legal market, one will soon need to look no further than the Philadelphia skyline, as Comcast Corp. and Liberty Property Trust move forward on a 59-story, $1.2 billion tower set to become the tallest building in the city.

  • June 17, 2014

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Buchanan Ingersoll

    The Pennsylvania Railroad first linked Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, via the state capital of Harrisburg, in 1852. Two years earlier, the law firm that eventually became Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC opened its doors in Pittsburgh, and went on to cultivate a statewide presence that made it one of only three firms on Law360's Pennsylvania Powerhouses list with outposts in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and Philadelphia.

  • June 16, 2014

    Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Ballard Spahr

    A fixture in the Philadelphia area since 1885, Ballard Spahr LLP has thrived despite challenges like the passing of firm giant and one-man-Rolodex Arthur Makadon last summer, thanks to the firm's famed culture of collegiality and commitment to legacy clients in the City of Brotherly Love, and to its lawyers' competitive desire to delve into new areas of the law. 

  • June 13, 2014

    Pa. Powerhouses Dominate In Competitive Regional Market

    As competition from national firms heats up, the 12 firms on Law360's Pennsylvania Powerhouse list have held their own, capitalizing on new energy work in the western part of the state and taking advantage of the strong local talent pool and competitive rates that have long made Philadelphia a lawyers' town.

  • June 10, 2013

    FCPA Powerhouse: WilmerHale

    With decades of experience tackling Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases and a deep bench of attorneys who each handle both counseling and investigation, WilmerHale has become a go-to firm for foreign bribery matters.

  • June 07, 2013

    FCPA Powerhouse: Willkie Farr

    Over the past year, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has helped Tyco International Ltd. escape brutal punishment for bribing government officials abroad, and on the flip side, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act scandal surrounding Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has laid bare the potential consequences of not heeding the firm's advice.