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By The Numbers: Why Associates Stay At Their Firms
After a flood of associates left their firms in search of greener pastures as part of the "talent wars" of the early 2020s, the National Association for Law Placement wanted to know what made other early-career attorneys decide instead to stay put. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a look at how compensation, work-life balance, and a dozen other factors helped play a role.
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Military Spouses Are Untapped Pool Of Attorney Talent
Service members' spouses in the legal profession present a massive well of untapped talent, though balancing a law career with their families' service to the country can be challenging, attorneys working in and with this community tell Law360 Pulse.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the beginning of March with another busy week as BigLaw firms made new hires and adjusted their practices.
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Pa. County Officials Can't Escape Sex Discrimination Claims
A Pennsylvania federal judge denied Thursday three government workers' bids to toss claims brought in a sex harassment suit by four women who said a county commissioner regularly subjected them to inappropriate jokes and coerced one into a sexual relationship, ruling the disputes are best fit for a jury's review.
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Pa. Panel Chides Court For Sealing Murder Case Docket
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled in a precedential opinion that a county judge violated the First Amendment in sealing the docket in a criminal case and denying access to local media trying to report on the alleged murder-for-hire of a man in Westmoreland County.
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And The Oscars' Legal Questions Go To ... John Quinn
When he was the general counsel to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Quinn Emanuel founding partner John Quinn attended the Oscars dozens of times, and he did so with a copy of the broadcast network contract tucked into his tuxedo pocket.
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Former TD Bank Atty Joins Stevens & Lee In Valley Forge, Pa.
A bankruptcy litigator left has moved back to private practice by joining Stevens & Lee PC's office in the Philadelphia suburbs after 18 months as in-house counsel for TD Bank.
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Latham Passes Skadden As Busiest Securities Defense Firm
Despite a downward trend in securities case filings over the past three years, Latham & Watkins LLP has remained one of the most active law firms on the defense side, taking over the top spot from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, according to reports released by Lex Machina.
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Flaster Greenberg Adds Atty From Transportation Boutique
For the second time in a week, Flaster Greenberg PC has added an attorney to its suburban Philadelphia office — this time welcoming a litigator who left his own transportation law boutique to join the firm.
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Saxton & Stump Adds Ex-Burns White Atty To Trucking Group
Saxton & Stump continued to grow its commercial transportation group with the recent addition of an experienced litigator who joined its Harrisburg office after nearly two years with Burns White LLC.
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The Firms Charging Into Secondary Cities As BigLaw Retreats
While top-tier firms have recently tapered their migration to secondary legal markets, firm leaders and recruiters say these locations continue to hold appeal for midtier firms, citing advantages such as lower expenses and competitive billing rates.
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Where E-Discovery Generative AI Efforts Currently Stand
More e-discovery companies are announcing new capabilities that harness the power of generative artificial intelligence, but I'm hearing confusion among some law firm leaders about the immediate availability of the tools in a more crowded legal tech market.
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Philly, Dallas Feds Name New Top Attys
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia on Tuesday announced it has promoted its deputy general counsel to senior vice president and general counsel, following a similar announcement from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas about its former interim general counsel.
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Judge's Side Job Invalidates Tax Rulings, Pa. Justices Told
Pennsylvania's constitution has barred judges from holding second jobs since 1776, counsel for a Delaware County hospital told the state Supreme Court during an oral argument Tuesday, so a senior judge who started collecting pay from a Philadelphia tax appeals board had effectively resigned and his rulings on the hospital's tax appeals were invalid.
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DLA Piper Adds Merck SVP As New Life Sciences Sector Chair
An experienced in-house attorney with a longtime passion for life sciences and medicine has left her position as a C-suite executive at biopharmaceutical giant Merck to join DLA Piper as the chair of its life sciences sector.
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Tully Rinckey's Atty Contracts Offer Warning To Other Firms
The ongoing disciplinary case against the founders of Tully Rinckey PLLC over restrictions the firm placed on departing attorneys is an unusual one, but experts say it's still an important reminder for lawyers to be mindful of the ethical considerations of their employment agreements.
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The Most Notable Numbers For 2024 Mid-Law Promotions
Partnership promotions among Mid-Law firms ticked downward during the 2024 promotion cycle, with average class sizes falling below five partners, based on an analysis of announcements from mid-size and regional firms.
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Southeast, Michigan Highlight Mid-Law Partner Promotions
A survey by Law360 Pulse of Mid-Law partner promotion class announcements shows Southeastern markets like Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas started 2024 with heavy growth, while Michigan-based firms saw a substantial increase from previous years.
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Number Of Women In Mid-Law Partner Classes Stays Stagnant
The percentage of female attorneys in this year's partnership classes among Mid-Law firms remained constant, with experts saying that although midsize and regional firms tend to do better than their BigLaw cousins, work remains to be done if firms are to reach gender parity among their partner ranks.
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Weber Gallagher Chair Talks 'Cautiously Aggressive' Growth
Andrew Indeck discusses the decision making behind Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP's recent geographic and talent expansions following the additions of a new office near Miami and a six-attorney team from Vaughan Baio & Partners.
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'Bright Line' Recusal Rule May Be Challenging To Fed. Judges
A new ethics opinion clarifying when federal judges should step aside from cases when they own stock in a party's parent company is a positive step toward transparency, but it also creates a lot of work for judges and may not have much practical impact, according to experts.
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Suit Says Firm Wrongly Repped Two Parties In Car Crash
A passenger injured in a car accident in Pittsburgh says attorneys from Goodrich & Geist did not advise him to find counsel separate from that of the driver of the car he was in and denied him the opportunity to seek damages.
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Gibbons Brings On Retired NJ Federal Judge As ADR Leader
Gibbons PC has added recently retired U.S. District Judge Noel Hillman from the District Court of New Jersey to take charge of its alternative dispute resolution practice, the Newark, New Jersey-based firm announced.
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Medical Malpractice Attorney Rejoins Post & Schell In Philly
Post & Schell PC has welcomed back a medical malpractice attorney who started her career with the firm, returning to the Philadelphia office 12 years after her departure.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Susman Godfrey LLP and Truelove Law Firm lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after a Texas state jury awarded $287 million to Dutch telecommunications company Koninklijke KPN in a contract dispute with Samsung Electronics Co.