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Buchanan Ingersoll Plans for Growth in Phila. With New Space
Posted on January 04, 2008Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney has signed a 12-year lease for three floors in Two Liberty Place that will give the firm room for an additional 30 to 50 attorneys. BI is currently situated at 1835 Market. Philadelphia managing partner Howard Scher said the firm?s strategic plan calls for the office to be at about 150 attorneys...
Firms Responding to Markets Through Formation of New Practice Areas
Posted on December 13, 2007Stevens & Lee and Flaster Greenberg have each formulated a new practice group, drawing from the experience of existing attorneys. While one looks to offer compliance advice across several client groups, the other is industry focused. Flaster Greenberg said today that it would create an automotive practice group focused on the needs of car and truck [...
Administrative Error Omits Some of Saylor?s Dissent in Gaming Case
Posted on December 11, 2007When the Pennsylvania Supreme Court paved the way last week for SugarHouse Casino to start building in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia, Justice Thomas G. Saylor was the lone dissent. He questioned the court?s jurisdiction in the case and today he offered further insight into how he would have ruled...
Dilworth Paxson L&E Chair Found Beaten in Southwest Philly
Posted on December 07, 2007Gino J. Benedetti, the chairman of Dilworth Paxson?s labor and employment group, was found beaten in Southwest Philadelphia Thursday night, according to police. Sgt. Charles Layton of the Southwest Detectives Special Investigation Unit said Benedetti was found at 63rd Street and Passyunk Avenue shortly before 8 p...
The Lateral Lineup
Posted on December 03, 2007The Philadelphia market has seen several lateral moves in the past month with the most recent between two local intellectual property boutiques. Daniel N. Calder joined Volpe & Koenig as a shareholder from Ratner Prestia. He was the first lateral shareholder the firm has ever hired since its inception 20 years ago...
Ballard Spahr Diversity Director Moves On
Posted on December 03, 2007Stacy Hawkins, who has served as Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll’s first-ever director of diversity for a little more than year, has left the firm to start her own diversity consulting business. Her last day was Friday, and she will now focus on serving national clients in a full-service diversity consulting practice from Philadelphia...
Bar Committee Creates Blog for Women
Posted on November 28, 2007The Philadelphia Bar Association?s Women in the Profession committee has launched a blog at http://womenintheprofession.wordpress.com/. Maria Feeley, co-chairwoman of the committee, said that all women attorneys, including attorneys from other local bar associations like the Barristers? Association of Philadelphia and the Asian American Bar Association of the Delaware Valley, are invited to participate in the blog...
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