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    UPenn Slams White Law Prof's Race Bias Claims

    The University of Pennsylvania's trustees pushed back Wednesday against a law professor's claim that her contract with the school was breached when she was sanctioned for racist remarks, saying it followed disciplinary procedures laid out in the faculty handbook.

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    Cozen O'Connor Announces Leadership Moves

    Cozen O'Connor has new office leadership in California, Minnesota and New York, and has named several practice group leaders.

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    Vetting Law Firm Compensation: Tips For Lateral Partners

    As law firms adjust their compensation systems to the changing legal job market, a system that works in favor of one lateral candidate could be a bad fit for another, forcing prospective laterals to wade through seemingly endless pros and cons related to partner pay.

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    By The Numbers: Top Trends In How Law Firms Are Growing

    Lateral hiring among the top 200 law firms rebounded in 2024, with firms adding 900 lateral hires, according to a new Leopard Solutions report that also highlighted ongoing transitions in the legal industry, including generational leadership shifts, evolving career aspirations, and growing pressures on diversity, equity and inclusion.

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    Houston Harbaugh Welcomes New Labor Practice Chair

    Pittsburgh-based Houston Harbaugh PC expanded its employment law services with the recent addition of an attorney and new practice leader who joined the firm after 14 years with Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bostick & Raspanti LLP.

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    First-Time Bar Passage Rate Improved In 2024

    Nearly 83% of first-time test takers who sat for the bar exam in 2024 passed, an increase of nearly 3 percentage points from 2023, according to statistics released on Wednesday by the American Bar Association.

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    Trump Taps Amazon Corporate Counsel As US Atty In Philly

    President Donald Trump has tapped David Metcalf, a former U.S. Department of Justice official, currently at Amazon, to be U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

  • Alleged Fake Atty Meddled In Real Lawyer's Case, Jury Told

    A Philadelphia trial lawyer told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday that a convicted fraudster accused of posing as a lawyer asked that he file a motion for a client in a criminal case that was "vague," "frivolous" and "not good."

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    Threats Against Judges 'Top Priority,' Fed. Judiciary Says

    Protecting federal judges is a "top priority" as violent threats spike against a polarized political backdrop, making congressional funding for additional security measures more important than ever, the U.S. Judicial Conference said Tuesday.

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    Ex-TD Bank Atty Back To Basics Of Litigation At Ballard Spahr

    A former in-house attorney for TD Bank has gone back to private practice and joined Ballard Spahr LLP's Philadelphia office in a move aimed at returning his focus to the nuts and bolts of litigation.

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    Campus Interviews Out Of Favor In Quest For Summer Talent

    On-campus interviewing — an outdated process that led to just 24% of all offers made by law firms last year for summer associates — is no longer the preferred recruitment method, according to a report released Tuesday.

  • Estate Attorney Rejoins Willig Williams In Philadelphia

    More than a decade after leaving the firm to work closer to home for a legal bill-auditing company, an attorney specializing in estate planning has returned to Willig Williams & Davidson's Philadelphia office.

  • 2 Firms Sued After Cyber Thief Steals $442K From Estate

    Law firms SutterWilliams LLC and Allender & Allender PA were hit with a negligence and malpractice suit after a cybercriminal allegedly used spoofed email accounts to trick an attorney at the latter firm into handing over $442,600 from the sale of a late Pennsylvania sheriff's deputy's house in Florida.

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    5 Key Takeaways From The ABA's Latest Legal Tech Survey

    Last week, the American Bar Association released its 2024 legal technology survey report, which covers a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence use, courtroom technology training and law firm data breaches. Here are five key takeaways from the report.

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    Gross McGinley Leader Eyes Growth After Move Into Philly

    With Gross McGinley LLP approaching its 50th year of operation, managing partner John F. Gross joined Law360 Pulse to discuss shepherding the firm through a notable growth spurt at the start of 2025.

  • Feds Say NJ Atty Smuggled Drugs, Phone To Pa. Prison Inmate

    A New Jersey criminal defense attorney allegedly snuck drugs and a cell phone into a federal detention center during a purported legal visit to an inmate, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Friday in Pennsylvania federal court.

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    Law Firm Hiring May Indicate 'Growing Demand,' Report Says

    Even as overall legal sector jobs declined in February nationwide, the number of open law firm positions increased by 59% compared with the year before, indicating "strong market expansion and growing demand for legal talent," according to a report released Friday by Leopard Solutions.

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    Atty Fights $190K Demand After Malicious Litigation Trial Loss

    A lawyer who recently lost her malicious prosecution lawsuit against three Blank Rome attorneys and an aviation parts company is fighting their demand that she pay $190,000 in costs stemming from the litigation, arguing the amount is excessive and otherwise unrecoverable.

  • Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work

    Sills Cummis and Irell & Manella's work on behalf of Johnson & Johnson and Young Conaway's work on Blink Fitness' Chapter 11 proceedings lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight on Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Feb. 21 to March 7.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Public Citizen Litigation Group and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a D.C. federal judge can require the Trump administration to release up to $2 billion in frozen foreign aid funding.

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    Saul Ewing Appoints Firm Veteran As Corporate Practice Chair

    Saul Ewing LLP appointed a longtime firm attorney as chair of the corporate practice, according to a Friday announcement.

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    Legal Jobs Down As Gov't Work Dries Up Under Trump

    Following modest gains at the beginning of the year, the U.S. legal sector lost 3,300 jobs in February, according to preliminary data released Friday from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal sector started March with a downpour of big industry news, including leadership shuffles, office closures and group lateral moves. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

  • Amid Court Setbacks, Trump Wants Foes To Foot Legal Bills

    With judges hitting the brakes on the White House's aggressive agenda, President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to up the ante with his legal adversaries by seeking legal costs and damages if his administration ultimately prevails after initial setbacks in litigation.

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    East Coast Promos Lead Mid-Law Partnership Classes In 2025

    While the number of Mid-Law partnership promotions remained relatively stable this year, a handful of East Coast markets saw substantial growth, while other traditional hotbeds, such as California, experienced a decline in numbers, a Law360 Pulse analysis has found.

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Expert Analysis

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Seek More Assignments? Author Photo

    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. 

  • Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap Author Photo

    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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    5 Ways Firms Can Avoid Female Atty Exodus During Pandemic Author Photo

    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.

  • What Hiring Law Firms Should Consider Instead Of Grades Author Photo

    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.

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