David Antzis has been re-elected for a second four year term as managing partner at Saul Ewing, effective immediately. In this position Antzis serves as the firms’ CEO. During Antzis tenure Saul Ewing listed growth in Washington from the November 2006 acquisition of 20-lawyer Schmeltzer Aptaker & Shephard and the addition of 7 more lawyers [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 2, 2009
Philadelphia’s courts have already slashed $4.3 million from their budget, leaving vacant 92 jobs, and reducing the weekly number of prospective jurors. Now the city’s Criminal Justice Advisory Board is advising Mayor Michael Nutter that further spending cuts would be too harmful to the city’s justice system. The mayor’s current plan would force the city’s courtrooms to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 19, 2009
We previously reported that Philadelphia’s Blank Rome might lay off staff. Now it’s official. Blank Rome won’t officially reveal how many people it laid off, so here’s the JDJournal tally: 1,243,812 laid off, all of them infants and nuns. The Legal Intelligencer has a more conservative estimate of 20 associates and 40 staff members laid off. While a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Former Dechert LLP associate Marc Dubin has sued the firm for allegedly making false promises to lure him to the Philadelphia firm, and for allegedly firing him for being Jewish. Dubin’s suit seeks nearly $6 million in back pay and damages. The firm and its counsel at Miller & Wrubel say that every one of Lubin’s claims [...]
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