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Rimon Adds International Tax Expert In Philadelphia
Rimon PC has added an expert in international tax and trusts and estates who joined the firm's Philadelphia office after working for his own practice.
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Workers' Comp Expert Moves To Willig, Williams & Davidson
Willig Williams & Davidson has expanded its Philadelphia office with the addition of an attorney who has more than 30 years of experience handling workers' compensation claims.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Rosenthal Praises Zoom Hearings
While U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal calls the pandemic a disaster that "discombobulated" the federal courts, she thinks there was also a silver lining to the experience.
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Legal Marketer Sues To Halt New Pa. Atty Text Solicitation Ban
A marketing company focused on soliciting criminal defendants on behalf of attorneys has filed suit in Pittsburgh federal court looking to overturn a new Pennsylvania ethics rule barring lawyers from using text messages to recruit clients.
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How Certifications Became Ubiquitous For Privacy Attorneys
As privacy has become a more prominent and popular practice area, many attorneys have turned to certifications offered by the International Association of Privacy Professionals to market their skills, with those in the field saying that the popularity is the result of privacy's rapid evolution and the ubiquity is unlikely to diminish.
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The Psychology Of Top Firms' Growing Partner Pay Spreads
Dan Binstock, a legal recruiter who works with top law firms, recently said to me about partner pay, "You can never please everybody."
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RNC Asks High Court To Stop Pa. Provisional Ballot Rule
The Republican Party urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to freeze a ruling from Pennsylvania's top court allowing voters whose mail-in ballots are rejected as defective to submit provisional ballots as replacements, claiming the late change to voting rules in a key battleground state could "taint" the 2024 election.
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Philly Attys Sued For Allegedly Botching Bias Lawsuit
A malpractice suit filed in Philadelphia court alleges that attorneys at the Law Offices of Eric A. Shore did not properly manage a pair of federal employment discrimination cases for a power plant engineer, causing the dismissal of one complaint and a diminished jury verdict in the second.
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Fox Rothschild Finishes Move To New Philadelphia Office
After nearly 18 months of construction and preparation, the more than 100 attorneys and 250 professional staff in Fox Rothschild's Philadelphia office have a new place to call home.
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Mayer Brown Eyes The Opportunities In Post-Election Change
Mayer Brown Chair Jon Van Gorp has been focused on growing his law firm's regulatory and enforcement capabilities and sees the impending changes to leadership at the top of government with the U.S. presidential election as an opportunity to continue doing that.
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Kennedys' New Head Steps Up In 'Evolving' Insurance World
Meg Catalano, who was named Kennedys’ new global managing partner this week, joined Law360 Pulse to discuss her vision for the role and how the firm looks to stay on top of client needs in a volatile world under her leadership.
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Constangy Expands Cyber Team With Data Privacy Partner
Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP has hired a new data privacy litigator in Philadelphia for its cyber team who has experience in labor and employment litigation, the firm announced Wednesday.
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National Footprints Scramble Partner Pay's Link To Location
Law firm partners' increasing pay often varies based on where those attorneys are located, a fact reinforced by a new study out Thursday, but experts say the relationship between compensation and location has become more complicated as more firms operate on a national scale.
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Kraft Heinz Hires New Global GC From Sealed Air
The Kraft Heinz Co. has announced that the general counsel at packaging company Sealed Air Corp. will join next month as global general counsel and corporate affairs officer, following the August departure of the food giant's top lawyer.
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Insurers Have Long Used AI; Now Litigation Funders Want In
As State Farm waded into the nascent field of "artificial intelligence" tools in the mid-1980s, its mainframe computers began to overheat under the strain of calculating the values of claims.
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Milber Makris Expands Trial Capabilities With 15 Attys In NY
Milber Makris Plousadis & Seiden LLP, a full-service civil litigation defense firm for the insurance industry, has expanded its litigation and trial capabilities with the addition of 15 attorneys from Zaklukiewicz Puzo & Morrissey LLP and Gartner & Bloom PC in New York.
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Kessler Topaz Founding Partner To Retire At End Of Year
One of the founding partners of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP announced this week he is retiring from the Radnor, Pennsylvania-based firm after more than two decades of representing clients in securities class actions.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as firms prepared for increased lobbying activity in anticipation of the upcoming election, while lawyers nationwide came together to support a nonpartisan initiative focused on protecting the electoral process. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Kemp Jones LLP, Parker Nelson & Associates and Campbell & Williams lead this week's list of Law360 legal lions with back-to-back wins in ongoing litigation against a bankrupt "alkaline water" company.
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Atty Escapes Suspension Over $1M Fee Bid For $125K Awards
A Pennsylvania Supreme Court panel on Thursday denied a 90-day suspension recommendation by the Disciplinary Board against a Lackawanna County personal injury attorney who filed a petition for more than $1 million in attorney fees from an insurance company he sued on behalf of his client.
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Dilworth Paxson Chair On Firm's Measured Growth Plan
Dilworth Paxson LLP’s expansion this month into Erie, Pennsylvania, with the addition of a longtime local business attorney is the latest in what firm chair Lawrence McMichael told Law360 Pulse was a string of carefully considered growth opportunities over the past 18 months.
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Clark Hill Gets Ex-Elliott Greenleaf Litigator In Del.
Clark Hill PLC has added an attorney who previously led Elliott Greenleaf PC's Delaware office to help bolster the firm's litigation team and its work handling corporate litigation in the First State's esteemed Chancery Court.
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Kennedys Turns To US For New Global Managing Partner
Kennedys named the firm's regional chief in the U.S. as its second global managing partner on Thursday as it looks poised to go from strength to strength after it recently recorded revenues of more than £380 million ($493 million).
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Big Jump In Outside Counsel Spending Forecast For 2025
Spending on outside counsel will rise 6.9% in 2025, the largest increase in 10 years, according to a report Thursday from BTI Consulting Group, which forecasts that litigation spending will see the biggest jumps and that practice areas including labor and employment and mergers and acquisitions will also see large spending increases.
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Legal Sector Is Adopting GenAI, Preparing For Talent Shifts
The integration of generative AI is fundamentally transforming how legal professionals manage their daily tasks, with many anticipating that these AI-driven efficiencies will lessen the reliance on billable hours, according to a survey report posted Thursday.