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A former Zator Law LLC's paralegal's amended complaint claiming that the firm fired her on the basis of her panic disorder condition lacks specific details about her disability that would support her discrimination and retaliation claims, according to a motion to dismiss recently filed by Zator Law.
Law360 Pulse caught up with Charles Barreras, founding partner of Chartwell Law Offices LLP, to discuss how the firm has grown so far this year to include a trio of new offices in New Jersey, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
An attorney with more than 40 years of experience representing clients in construction and employment law has recently moved his practice to Pennsylvania-based McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC.
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC said Wednesday that it has launched an office in New York City with the addition of an 11-attorney team from Hawkins Parnell & Young LLP, while scaling back its New Jersey presence.
A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. Law360 reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the first quarter of the year.
Data protection company Atlas Data Corp. and New Jersey's attorney general are urging the Third Circuit to uphold a decision declaring the state's judicial privacy measure known as Daniel's Law as constitutional.
An attorney with nearly 20 years of courtroom experience as a public defender and assistant Philadelphia district attorney has joined the private sector by moving his practice to personal injury firm Locks Law Firm's Philadelphia office.
The path to securing a summer associate position at a law firm has changed significantly over the past few years, adding new pressures for students reaching for those coveted positions and new challenges for law firms trying to find top talent, according to Law360 Pulse's 2025 Summer Associate Survey.
As the competition to recruit future lawyers heats up, law firms are making summer associate offers earlier than ever. But even as the timeline shifts, law students' favorites have stayed largely the same, according to Law360 Pulse's 2025 Summer Associate Survey.
About 20% of law students used artificial intelligence to assist them with their summer associate job hunt, leaning on the new technology to help navigate new challenges and shifting timelines, according to Law360 Pulse's 2025 Summer Associates Survey.
Philadelphia lawyer Pat Pierce has been practicing law for over four decades, but after recently merging her practice with a team of experienced attorneys to form the litigation boutique Goldshaw Greenblatt Pierce LLC, she said she'd finally created what she called "the firm I'd been waiting for."
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday rejected the Pennsylvania State Police's bid to completely avoid a subpoena from a skill games company suing Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC for an alleged conflict of interest, but noted that the department raised legitimate concerns about the subpoena's scope.
Former clerks of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter are heartbroken over the death of a man many of them remember more for his conscientiousness, humility, kindness and disdain for the spotlight than for his undeniable brilliance as a jurist.
The legal industry marked another busy week with a flurry of attorneys taking on new legal roles and law firm practice expansions. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
Winston & Strawn LLP, Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Jones Day lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after an Illinois federal judge held in a bellwether case in multidistrict litigation that Abbott Laboratories isn't liable for the death of a baby who consumed Similac baby formula.
An attorney specializing in assisting clients in the oil and gas industry has brought her practice back to Steptoe & Johnson PLLC's Meadville, Pennsylvania, office, after leaving the firm six years ago.
A Pennsylvania federal judge overseeing a consolidated action accusing the Philadelphia Inquirer of sharing subscribers' video viewing habits with Meta has granted final approval to a $1.1 million settlement, including nearly $375,000 in attorney's fees.
Law school students in the class of 2024 contributed at least 4.7 million hours of pro bono services valued at roughly $157 million as part of their education, a survey released this week by the Association of American Law Schools says.
More than a dozen attorneys and additional support staff from the closing Lavin Cedrone Graver Boyd & DiSipio have found a soft place to land with a plan to move to Maron Marvel Bardley Anderson & Tardy LLC's Philadelphia office this summer.
National litigation support services company Magna Legal Services inked another merger this year, tying up with South Carolina-based court reporting firm EveryWord, according to an announcement on Thursday.
In January, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP merged with Locke Lord LLP to form Troutman Pepper Locke LLP. Leaders of the new firm spoke with Law360 Pulse about how they used artificial intelligence tools to save time and money while combining the two firms.
The former executive director of the Cambria County Bar Association in Pennsylvania has been charged with stealing more than $300,000 from the organization and spending it on cosmetic procedures, vacations and donations to a charity founded by her family, the state attorney general's office said Wednesday.
Philadelphia-area women's college Bryn Mawr College has tapped a former associate general counsel for Johns Hopkins University to serve as the school's new top in-house attorney.
Anytime AI, a startup offering a legal assistant powered by artificial intelligence, recently announced a new strategic partnership with New Jersey-based Stark & Stark PC that will see the law firm adopt the latest version of its automated litigation workflow platform.
More law school students are finding that a position at a law firm is their preferred landing place after graduation. Here's a look at the choices students are making and the schools that are sending the highest percentage of their students directly to BigLaw.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Seek More Assignments?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
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 PandemicThe 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.
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.