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  • Indicted Judge Seeks Info On His 'Disgruntled' Ex-Workers

    A Pennsylvania state judge accused of misusing COVID-19 unemployment relief money to pay his law firm's staff is seeking employment records from their other jobs to determine the credibility of who he calls "disgruntled employees" who made the claims about him to the government.

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    Flaster Greenberg Taps IP Expert To Lead New Tech Group

    Flaster Greenberg PC expanded its intellectual property team with the recent addition of a former Troutman Pepper Locke LLP partner who now leads the firm's newly launched cybersecurity practice group from offices in the Philadelphia area.

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    The ݮƵ 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

    A rebound in client work sent the nation’s largest law firms into growth mode last year, driving a wave of hiring, mergers and strategic moves that reshaped the top tier of the ݮƵ 400. Here's a preview of the 100 firms with the largest U.S. attorney headcounts.

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    Clark Hill Adds 3 Oil And Gas Attys In Pa., W.Va.

    Clark Hill PLC recently bolstered its resources for oil and gas industry clients in the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania and West Virginia by adding a trio of attorneys who moved their practices from Bernstein-Burkley PC.

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    Stevens & Lee Enters New England With RI Firm

    East Coast firm Stevens & Lee PC has expanded into New England by bringing Providence, Rhode Island, firm Duffy & Sweeney Ltd. into the fold, the firm announced Monday.

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    The Top In-House Hires Of May

    Legal department hires over the past month included high-profile appointments at Adobe, Takeda Pharmaceutical and Duke Energy. Here, ݮƵ Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from May.

  • ݮƵ Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work

    Susman Godfrey's selection as the head of multidistrict litigation against Microsoft and OpenAI and Benesch's work on an $800 million public offering on behalf of a longtime client lead this edition of ݮƵ Pulse's Spotlight on Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from May 16 to 30.

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    ݮƵ's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Clement & Murphy PLLC leads this week's edition of ݮƵ Legal Lions, after a D.C. federal judge struck down President Donald Trump's executive order targeting WilmerHale.

  • ABA Leader Says Silence 'Not An Alternative' On Trump EOs

    While American Bar Association President Bill Bay says he's seen no shortage of criticism and even threats for publicly opposing the Trump administration's executive orders targeting law firms, he told attendees at an ABA ethics conference that being silent was not a viable alternative.

  • Insurer Seeks Win In Margolis Edelstein Malpractice Dispute

    Margolis Edelstein should not be allowed to escape GMG Insurance Agency's legal malpractice suit, the agency told a Delaware Superior Court, saying the law firm admitted that it was not competent to handle an underlying noncompete dispute that resulted in a $1.2 million settlement.

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    Barley Snyder Names New Leaders For ADR Team

    Pennsylvania-based regional firm Barley Snyder has named two of its litigation partners as the leaders of its alternative dispute resolution service team.

  • Voir Dire: ݮƵ Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry ended May with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded practices and attorneys took on new roles. Test your legal news savvy here with ݮƵ Pulse’s weekly quiz.

  • Eisenberg Rothweiler Brings On Astor Weiss Partner

    A trial attorney seeking to focus his work more acutely on catastrophic injuries has moved his practice to Eisenberg Rothweiler Winkler Eisenberg & Jeck PC's Philadelphia office after more than 12 years with Astor Weiss Kaplan & Mandel LLP.

  • Montgomery McCracken Wins $680K Fees From Ch. 11 Client

    A group of property development companies that Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP represented through years of bankruptcy reorganization still owe the firm $680,000, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Wednesday.

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    Colleagues Mourn Ex-Pa. Justice Known For Rhymes, Scandal

    Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin, who raised eyebrows with his rhyming opinions and whose career on the bench ended after a scandal involving inappropriate emails, has died, according to his colleagues.

  • Law Firm Real Estate Report

    May was a month of new markets for several firms as they made their first entries into a handful of notable U.S. cities. They include Carlton Fields, which expanded into Minnesota with a new Minneapolis office staffed by attorneys formerly with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. And a merger with a Seattle-based firm gave Dickinson Wright PLLC its first office in the Pacific Northwest.

  • Car Dealership Settles Bias Case On Heels Of Recusal Bid

    A Philadelphia auto dealership has resolved a former manager's suit in Pennsylvania federal court claiming her boss made inappropriate sexual remarks and propositioned her nearly every day, days after the company said a magistrate judge was inappropriately pushing it to settle.

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    Robinson & Cole Leader On Finding Firm's 'Secret Sauce'

    After nearly 35 years at Robinson & Cole LLP, including the past four as managing partner, Rhonda Tobin has learned what makes the firm special — its people. Tobin recently told ݮƵ Pulse about how integral the firm's people are to its culture and her job, and the challenges of becoming a firm leader in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Agency Says Klehr Harrison Testimony Allowed In NFL Case

    A sports management company on Wednesday argued that a Pennsylvania federal court's previous sanction orders permit the testimony it is seeking from two Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP attorneys who represented defendants in a lawsuit over an alleged attempt to poach former Detroit Lions wide receiver Kenny Golladay as a client.

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    Klehr Harrison Adds Real Estate Partner In Philly

    A real estate attorney with expertise in the Philadelphia commercial property market has joined Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP after practicing for more than six years with boutique firm Vos-IP.

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    Trump Nominates Ex-Personal Atty Emil Bove For 3rd Circ.

    President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday he is nominating Emil Bove, his former criminal defense attorney who served as acting deputy attorney general, for the Third Circuit.

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    Rate Hikes May Be Masking BigLaw's Financial Vulnerabilities

    Revenue and profits have both been on a strong upward trajectory in recent years for large U.S. law firms, but those strides may not tell the whole story when considering factors like inflation and the role that aggressive rate hikes, which some say are unsustainable, have played in the increases.

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    Law Firms Slow To Adopt $225K Associate 1st-Year Salaries

    First-year associate salaries of $225,000 may make headlines, but they aren't yet the reality at most law firms surveyed for a new report by the National Association for Law Placement.

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    Gibson Dunn Helps 1st-Year Associates Connect With 'Pods'

    At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP launched a unique virtual program to connect first-year associates with other young attorneys in different U.S. offices. Five years later, the “New Associate Pods” program is still going strong.

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    Hamilton Miller Tops New Ranking Of Midsize Law Firms

    Miami-based Hamilton Miller & Birthisel LLP has topped the inaugural ranking of the leading 200 midsize law firms from legal software provider SurePoint Technologies, which scored firms based on factors such as gender and ethnic diversity, and attorney roster growth.

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