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Visa, Con Ed Among Leaders In Political Disclosure Rankings
Despite geopolitical pressures — or perhaps because of them — more companies than ever are agreeing to follow robust transparency policies related to their political spending, according to a new study.
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Mid-Law's Big Leap: The Rise Of The 'Super Mid-Market' Firm
As consolidation pressure mounts, some Mid-Law firms have bulked up to BigLaw scale without moving away from their focus on midsized clients, with this so-called "super mid-market" tier of firms likely to keep expanding.
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After Spending Blitz, Pa. Judicial Election Turnout Booms
Months of focused campaigning and an unprecedented blitz of spending on television ads helped serve to double the number of Pennsylvania voters who turned out on Tuesday to cast ballots over whether to grant new 10-year terms to three Democratic members of the state's Supreme Court.
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Pa. Dem Justices Survive GOP Retention-Denial Campaign
Three Democratic Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices will remain on the bench after surviving a Republican-led campaign to oust them via a retention vote, according to preliminary election results Tuesday.
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Philly DA Krasner Defeats Judge Challenger To Win 3rd Term
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner fended off former Municipal Court Judge Patrick Dugan Tuesday in his bid for a third term as the city's top prosecutor.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds 6 More Partners In US, London
Fast-growing Pierson Ferdinand LLP has announced that the firm added six new partners in five U.S. markets and in its London office during the month of October.
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End Payors Seek $66M In Atty Fees In Generic Drug MDL
End payors in a generic drug price-fixing multidistrict litigation are seeking a Pennsylvania federal court's approval for a $66 million award of attorney fees, representing one-third of the $200 million settlement between the classes and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. and Taro Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.
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Hall Booth Making Arrival In Philadelphia In New Year
Hall Booth Smith PC will officially open an office in Philadelphia on Jan. 1 under the leadership of two attorneys, marking the Atlanta-based firm's first outpost in Pennsylvania and its 29th overall.
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Pond Lehocky Expands In South NJ With Veteran Litigator
Pond Lehocky Giordano is expanding in South Jersey with a new Haddonfield office to be led by a litigator who comes aboard from Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC with experience handling high-profile employment cases.
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Ex-DLA Piper Atty Joins Optimal Dispute Resolutions In Philly
Optimal Dispute Resolutions, a subsidiary of Pennsylvania-based law firm Saxton & Stump, has expanded its bench of mediators with a litigator who joins the company after more than 30 years with DLA Piper.
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Barley Snyder Launches Manufacturing Industry Group
Five years of mounting issues facing the manufacturing industry, from supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic to the increased use of tariffs, has led Pennsylvania-based Barley Snyder to launch a practice group dedicated to providing advice and resources to manufacturing clients.
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Dechert Requiring 4 Days In Office For Some Attys, All Staff
Dechert LLP joined a growing list of BigLaw firms increasing their office attendance requirements, rolling out a new policy requiring rising second-year associates and all nonattorney business professionals to work in person four days a week beginning next year.
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'Frankly, They're Irrelevant:' ABA Ratings In Trump's 2nd Term
The American Bar Association, long considered the gold standard for rating judicial nominees, no longer gets to interview them as Trump officials claim the group's "not qualified" rating for some nominees during Trump's first term shows it is a biased and "leftist" organization. Ironically though, ABA ratings for President Donald Trump's second-term picks are mostly positive so far.
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New Loan Forgiveness Rule Targets Trump Critics, States Say
Two lawsuits filed Monday, one by a coalition of states and the other by a group of cities, unions and advocacy organizations, are challenging a new Trump administration rule imposing "intentionally vague" and allegedly illegal restrictions on student loan forgiveness for public employees intended to stifle dissent.
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Leech Tishman Adds Labor Partner In Erie, Pittsburgh Offices
Leech Tishman announced Monday the firm has expanded its employment law resources in Pennsylvania with the addition of an attorney who moved his practice to the firm's Erie and Pittsburgh offices following more than 30 years with Quinn Buseck Leemhuis Toohey & Kroto Inc.
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Goodwin Requiring 4 Days In Office, But Removes Tracker
Goodwin Procter LLP will stop using certain technology to monitor in-office attendance while joining a growing list of BigLaw firms requiring U.S. attorneys to work in person at least four days a week, according to a memo obtained by Law360 Pulse.
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Law Firms Cite 'Value' In Staffing Up On AI Expertise
Law firms are creating more internal roles to bring on professionals to lead their artificial intelligence implementation, including a push to develop AI agents. But the competition to secure such skilled personnel is stiff.
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Cozen O'Connor Inks Merger Deal With Minneapolis Shop
Cozen O'Connor LLP is bringing on more than 50 attorneys via a combination with longtime Minneapolis law firm Moss & Barnett, nudging the law firm's headcount above 1,000 and continuing its expansion in the Midwest, according to a Monday announcement.
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Morgan Lewis Latest Firm To Open Office In 'Hot' Saudi Market
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced Monday that it has grown its Middle East presence by launching an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the help of three new attorneys, including a mergers and acquisitions and capital markets duo from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling.
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Insurer Not Liable For Crypto Settlement Row, Judge Says
An insurer for an attorney and his practice does not owe $275,000 to an investment company over a soured cryptocurrency deal that ended in a $700,000 settlement, a Pennsylvania federal court ruled, finding that a contractual liability exclusion in the attorney's policy applies.
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Corporate Counsel Group's CEO Talks Career, 'Refirement'
On her last day Friday as CEO of the Association of Corporate Counsel, Veta Richardson cleaned up last-minute tasks such as updating a contract for an ACC consultant as she prepared to move into what she calls "refirement."
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AccessLex, Southwestern Law Join Up To Study Admissions
Legal education nonprofit AccessLex Institute has announced that Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles will be the first school to go through its Admission Innovation Project, which supports and funds efforts by universities to implement and assess new approaches to selecting first-year law students.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC, Motley Rice LLC and Powell & Majestro PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Fourth Circuit overturned a key ruling by a West Virginia federal judge in the first federal bellwether in multidistrict opioid litigation.
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Students Defend Law School Application Fee Antitrust Suit
Plaintiffs in a proposed class action accusing the Law School Admission Council of fixing application fees with its member schools claim in a new filing their complaint is strong enough to survive a motion to dismiss.
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Immigrant Says Ogletree Botched Work Authorization
A Pittsburgh-based Meta employee and Carnegie Mellon University graduate claims mishandled paperwork by attorneys at Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC forced him to temporarily leave the U.S. after an extension of his legal status was denied.