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Law Firm In-Office Policies Steady Real Estate Footprints
Law firms' office real estate footprints are stabilizing as firms bolster their in-office attendance — through return-to-office programs and a focus on culture — and move away from space-sharing for attorneys, according to a report from CBRE.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms hired new talent and the D.C. Bar kicked off its annual election. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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K&L Gates Bungled Crypto Co.'s Bankruptcy Claim, Suit Says
Gryphon Digital Mining has sued its former counsel K&L Gates LLP, claiming it dropped the ball on a bankruptcy filing that cost the company millions of dollars and complicated another legal case, all while allegedly overbilling the crypto mining firm by $1 million for related matters.
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Saxton & Stump Opens In Pittsburgh With Burns White Team
Mid-sized firm Saxton & Stump has continued to expand its Pennsylvania footprint, recently opening a new office in Pittsburgh with a five-person legal team that moved its construction litigation practice from Burns White LLC.
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'Moonshine' Fudge Maker Must Pay Fees For Failed IP Claims
The maker of "Chocolate Moonshine" fudge may have won a trade secrets case against his ex-wife and her new chocolate company, but he must pay the defendants more than $174,000 in attorney fees and costs for his unsuccessful trademark and copyright infringement claims.
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Saul Ewing Adds Ex-Armstrong Teasdale IP Partner In Philly
An intellectual property attorney with expertise on advising clients on their patent strategies has moved his practice to Saul Ewing LLP's Philadelphia office after six years with Armstrong Teasdale LLP, according to a Thursday announcement.
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Magna Legal Services Combines With Court Reporting Firm
National litigation support services company Magna Legal Services inked another merger deal this year, joining forces with Delaware-based court reporting firm Basye Santiago Reporting, according to an announcement on Thursday.
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Seeger Weiss Adds 2 Attys From Gibson Dunn, NY AG's Office
Plaintiffs firm Seeger Weiss LLP announced two additions to its New Jersey and Pennsylvania teams, including a counsel who joins from the Office of the New York Attorney General and an associate who joins from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
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Pa. Judge Cuts Atty Fees To $950K In ERISA Deal Final OK
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled that counsel representing two union elevator industry workers should be awarded $950,000 in legal fees, down from the attorneys' initial request of $1.7 million for settling a nearly 30,000-member class action over the management of a union 401(k) plan.
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Ex-Pa. State Lawmaker Joins Fellerman & Ciarimboli
Regional firm Fellerman & Ciarimboli Law PC has expanded services in its Kingston, Pennsylvania, office with the addition of a former state representative who moved back to the private sector after serving in state government for 10 years.
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Pa. Law Firm Escapes Ex-Paralegal's Bias Claims, For Now
A federal judge largely nixed a suit brought by a former paralegal for a Pennsylvania law firm who claimed she was fired for taking medical leave to treat her panic disorder, ruling her complaint was short on specifics about whether she was disabled under the law.
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Not A Doughnut Shop: Ex-MoFo Chair Says Firms Need Focus
As large law firms navigate an increasingly competitive marketplace, former Morrison & Foerster LLP Chair Keith Wetmore says today's firm leaders need a clear vision for what sets their firm apart and avoid trying to be everything to everybody.
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NJ Judicial Privacy Law Is Unconstitutional, 3rd Circ. Told
A group of data brokers told the Third Circuit that the New Jersey judicial privacy measure, Daniel's Law, is facially unconstitutional and that a federal district judge effectively "rewrote" it when he found otherwise.
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Burns White Adds Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & AI Group
Pittsburgh-based MidLaw firm Burns White LLC announced Tuesday it is expanding its decade-old cybersecurity practice group with the introduction of a new data privacy, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence group, helmed by two of the firm's longtime attorneys who were tapped for roles as chief privacy officers.
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Unfilled Legal Jobs Up Amid Political, Economic Uncertainties
While hiring demand in the legal sector remains virtually unchanged from last year, more positions are going unfilled, which suggests a growing sense of caution among law firms due to broader economic uncertainty, according to a report released Tuesday by legal data company Leopard Solutions.
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Eckert Seamans Keeps Same Exec Team, Adds 2 Board Members
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC reappointed all seven members of its executive committee for the 2025-2026 term and has added two members to its board of directors, the firm has announced.
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Will Trump Deals Change BigLaw's Pro Bono Work?
The nine law firms that struck deals with the Trump administration in an effort to avoid punitive executive orders agreed to perform $940 million worth of free legal services for causes the president supports, but it's unclear how much those commitments will change pro bono practices at some of the nation's biggest firms.
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Former In-House Health Atty Joins Pierson Ferdinand
Ben Hefflinger, a new healthcare partner at Pierson Ferdinand, talks to Law360 about the move from an in-house role to private practice at an "awesome intersection" for digital health.
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From Hello To Hired In 8 Weeks: Lateral Moves Pick Up Speed
The process of bringing on a lateral partner, once long and arduous, has been shortened and streamlined at many law firms in an effort to gain a leg up on the competition, according to two recruiters at Major Lindsey & Africa.
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Greenblatt Pierce Wins DuPont Wage Case Fee Spat With Atty
Philadelphia firm Greenblatt Pierce Funt & Flores LLC has been awarded fees in a case against a former member who took over an employment class action against DuPont, with a city judge ruling that it was entitled to a piece of the settlement's fee for the work it put into the case.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds Real Estate Litigator To Philly Office
Pierson Ferdinand LLP continued to grow its Philadelphia roster with the recent addition of a real estate attorney, the firm's second lateral hire in the city in less than a week.
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Filing AI's Fake Cases Can Land Attys Big Fines Or Nothing
Legal ethics experts say they're trying to make sense of a wide variety of sanctions in recent high-profile cases in which lawyers have submitted legal briefs with fake case citations written by artificial intelligence.
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21 AGs Back WilmerHale, Jenner & Block Over Trump Order
A coalition of 21 attorneys general Friday filed briefs in support of WilmerHale and Jenner & Block LLP as the firms challenge President Donald Trump's retaliatory executive orders in D.C. federal court, arguing that the directives unconstitutionally punish the firms for representing people and causes the president doesn't like.
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SEC Taps 2 Agency Staffers For Senior Enforcement Roles
The former director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Philadelphia office has been promoted to overseeing the agency's trial team while an adviser to acting SEC Chair Mark Uyeda has been given the role of associate director of enforcement, according to a pair of recent announcements.
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Adler & Stachenfeld Hires Ex-Developer Counsel As Partner
New York real estate firm Adler & Stachenfeld LLP announced Friday that commercial real estate attorney Ryan McCaffrey will join the firm as a partner after most recently serving as in-house counsel for a developer for more than a decade.
Expert Analysis
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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Series
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.Â
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.
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Guest Feature
5 Ways Firms Can Avoid Female Atty Exodus During Pandemic
The pandemic's disproportionate impact on women presents law firms with a unique opportunity to devise innovative policies that will address the increasing home life demands female lawyers face and help retain them long after COVID-19 is over, say Roberta Liebenberg at Fine Kaplan and Stephanie Scharf at Scharf Banks.
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What Hiring Law Firms Should Consider Instead Of Grades
With law schools forgoing traditional grading due to the pandemic, hiring firms that have heavily weighted first-year grades during the on-campus interview process should turn to metrics that allow a more holistic view of a candidate, says Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey.