Lamb McErlane has hired a three member group away from McCracken Walker & Rhoads. David MacMain was chair of McCracken’s government liability & civil rights defense group, and was vice…
Eckert Seamans will lay off 119 of 200 temporary attorneys at its Pittsburgh document coding center. The layoffs will be final by July 1st. In April, the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania office…
Wolf Block laid off 428 workers when it dissolved — and no, this isn’t a repeat from March. The law firm has released its WARN Act filings, which show that…
Construction law firm Cohen Seglias is acquiring Fort Washington, Pennsylvania’s Payne Hackenbracht & Sullivan. The combined firm will have 55 attorneys once the merger is complete on April 1st. Four-lawyer…
The National Law Journal writes that judges, who have been pushing for years for pay raises, are now backing off, and begrudgingly accepting pay freezes in the shadow of the…
Two Pennsylvania judges have plead guilty to fraud charges, after taking $2.6 million in kickbacks in return for placing juvenile offenders in specific detention facilities. The plea agreements for Luzerne…
Pennsylvania Democratic State Senator Lawrence M. Farnese Jr. has joined the Philadelphia office of Archer & Greiner as of counsel. Farnese, who won indicted former state Senator Vincent Fumo’s Senate…
K&L Gates, Pittsburgh’s largest law firm, has opened an office in Frankfurt, Germany, its 29th site and second in that country. It has added partners Mathias Schulze Steinen and Frank…
From The Duquesne Duke: [Duquesne University] President Charles Dougherty abruptly removed Donald Guter as Dean of the School of Law on Wednesday, while offering no explanation and leaving professors and students stunned.…
From the Associated Press: A county judge described as a bully on the bench was stripped of her office Tuesday in the longest and most costly judicial ethics investigation in…
Recent comments