Try our Advanced Search for more refined results
An attorney with more than five years of experience as an in-house counsel for behavioral healthcare providers has moved back to the law firm environment to focus on building up his practice at Pierson Ferdinand LLP's Philadelphia office.
Lateral attorney hiring at the 200 largest law firms in the U.S. by revenue has slowed for the second quarter in a row, falling 27% compared to the third quarter of 2024, according to a new report by legal intelligence provider Firm Prospects.
Jenner & Block LLP and WilmerHale on Tuesday asked Washington, D.C., federal judges for permanent court orders blocking President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the firms, saying the directives threaten the firms, their clients and the entire legal system.
Nearly 70 current and former general counsel for companies including Apple Inc. and Starbucks filed an amicus brief Tuesday supporting Perkins Coie LLP in its suit against an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting the firm, saying the order "tramples on corporate independence, the right to counsel, and First Amendment rights."
A former attorney for Ballard Spahr LLP filed suit against the firm and the head of its employee benefits group Tuesday in New York federal court, claiming she was fired for taking medical leave and seeking a more flexible work schedule to deal with her epilepsy and a gastrointestinal condition.
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP and Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP are seeking lead counsel roles in a proposed securities class action against GSK PLC in Pennsylvania federal court, citing a long history of collaboration and billions recovered for shareholders.
As of Tuesday afternoon, 170 BigLaw partners had joined a new group aimed at rallying their collective power to push back against what they called the president's unconstitutional actions, even as large law firms largely refrain from taking a stance.
A slew of midsize and small litigation firms took up Perkins Coie LLP's cause in its legal battle against an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting the BigLaw firm, arguing Monday in an amicus brief that the order is "anathema" to the justice system.
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC continued its recent growth with the additions of two attorneys to the energy practice in its Pittsburgh and Morgantown, West Virginia, offices.
Pennsylvania-based mid-sized firm Saxton & Stump bolstered its litigation services at its Lancaster, Pennsylvania, office with the recent addition of an attorney who moved his practice after nearly 13 years as a co-founding partner at Brubaker Connaughton Goss & Lucarelli LLC.
While attorneys should use generative artificial intelligence tools, they shouldn't use the technology for "hard work" like giving them legal answers and filling up a blank page, Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal Judge Scott Schlegel said during a panel at the American Bar Association Techshow 2025 in Chicago.
A proposed class of unionized female public defenders on Friday settled civil rights claims against Delaware County, Pennsylvania, nearly three years after suing their employer for alleged "systemic, enduring and continuing wage disparity" between male and female attorneys in suburban Philadelphia.
Block & Leviton winning a bid to co-lead an investor proposed class action and Arnall Golden steering a $245 million acquisition in the energy sector lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from March 21 to April 4.
A Pennsylvania state representative, judge advocate for the Pennsylvania National Guard and former Democratic candidate for the state's attorney general seat has recently moved his practice to Philadelphia-based Kleinbard LLC from Spector Gadon & Rosen PC.
A group of 507 law firms, including Munger Tolles & Olson LLP and Covington & Burling LLP, have signed onto an amicus brief filed Friday supporting Perkins Coie LLP's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the law firm.
Clifford Chance LLP and Baker Botts LLP lead this week's legal lions for helping Caterpillar Inc. escape a $100 million verdict awarded to a defunct equipment importer that accused the construction manufacturing giant of interfering with a contract to sell equipment through an online sales platform.
The U.S. legal sector appears to be on the upswing once again, with 3,700 law-related jobs added in March, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Third Circuit will be the first appeals court to weigh in on a dispute over using copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence systems after a Delaware federal court on Friday granted permission to send up questions from ROSS Intelligence Inc. over the copyrightability of Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes and fair use.
The legal industry kicked off April with another action-packed week as BigLaw added new talent and firms struck deals with the Trump administration. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
A former paralegal at a Pennsylvania law firm made speculative and illogical arguments to take her identity away from her overtime and retaliation suit, the firm said Thursday, urging a federal court to keep her name known.
An attorney from the now-closed Stock & Leader firm has moved her litigation and employment law practice to Barley Snyder's York, Pennsylvania, office, opting not to follow many of her former colleagues who joined Saxton & Stump.
Saul Ewing LLP announced Thursday the hiring of the former chief information officer at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP to advise its managing partner, executive partner and executive committee on the firm's technology.
The top legal officers at Broadcom, Merit Medical Systems and Meta gave themselves multimillion-dollar pay days in March by selling stock in their companies.
Mid-Law firm McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC is growing its office in York, Pennsylvania, with the addition of two attorneys to the firm's litigation and real estate groups.
Lawyers can drop clients at will as long as doing so won't harm the client's legal objectives or needlessly drive up costs, according to new guidance by the American Bar Association — but the guidance also notes that "getting out of a matter can be a lot harder than getting in."