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Reed Smith Disputes Claims of Growing Pains
Within just five years, Reed Smith has nearly doubled in size and profitability while making splashes in the California and London markets with large mergers. The firm is led by the dynamic Gregory Jordan, a 45-year-old Reed Smith lifer who has accepted the mission of taking the firm to the next level. But with the changes have come rumblings that the Philadelphia office has been ignored and partners de-equitized while Reed Smith changes focus and tries to become more like a New York firm.4th Circuit Rules Computer Oversight Not 'Excusable Neglect'
The federal rules provide a mechanism that enables tardy litigants to seek an extension of an expired deadline provided the delay was the result of "excusable neglect." The 4th Circuit analyzed the excusable neglect standard in the context of a notice of appeal from a district court judgment filed one day late as a result of a technical error by counsel's computer calendaring system.Code of Ethics for City Employees Recommended
A Philadelphia ethics committee is urging city government to adopt a new ethics code and give a board the teeth to properly enforce it, as part of efforts to combat a "pay-to-play" system. While not advocating "city-focused campaign finance reform," committee members did recommend that government leaders pursue a statewide finance reform measure, potentially modeled after a statute currently before New Jersey's state Assembly.Judge Refuses to OK Settlement in Legal Malpractice Suit
A Philadelphia judge refused Tuesday to approve a $4.5 million settlement proposed by the law firm Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll and limited partners of the Keystone Venture V capital fund in an attempt to resolve a legal malpractice suit alleging that lawyers failed to keep public pension funds in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts from losing money. The law firm has denied any wrongdoing or liability.State AI Legislation Is on the Move in 2024
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