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Wolf Block Raises Associates' Starting Salaries
After rethinking the firm's place in the shifting marketplace, management at Wolf, Block Schorr and Solis-Cohen has announced that it will raise associates' starting salaries from $107,000 to $115,000. The increase comes six weeks after other large firms in Philadelphia -- including Pepper Hamilton and Reed Smith -- announced they had increased starting salaries to $115,000.Booming IP Practice Has Big Firms Seeking Merger with Longtime Boutiques
Last month Ronald Panitch finally relented -- deciding to merge his IP firm with national giant Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. That decision has people in the legal community talking about whether the union is a sign of things to come for IP boutiques as big firms continue to try and muscle in on their once exclusive turf. Philadelphia's leading IP boutiques say they have been flooded with merger offers from big firms in the past year.District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Appearances For Plaintiff: Scott B. Gilly, Esq. Darre
DLA Piper Raises First-Year Pay to $125K
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has increased Philadelphia associate salaries to among the highest in the city, with first-years moving up to $125,000 annually, retroactive to Jan. 1, according to the firm's co-managing partner for the United States. In addition, the firm will switch to a lockstep program at the suggestion of many of its associates. Beginning on Feb. 1, Drinker Biddle & Reath will also start salaries at $125,000, according to the firm.Judge Orders MIIX Insurance Into State Rehab
A Mercer County, N.J., judge has placed the ailing MIIX Insurance Co., one of the largest medical malpractice insurers nationally, into state rehabilitation. Lawyers for the Medical Society of New Jersey say the situation underscores the need for tighter controls on med-mal suits and predict MIIX will end up in liquidation. One attorney notes there could still exist a large number of as yet unasserted claims.When Environmental Law Confronts Bankruptcy Law
Steps to consider if a co-liable potentially responsible party (PRP) is either showing signs of economic distress or has already filed in bankruptcy. Under many environmental statutes, an insolvent co-PRP's liability is transferred by operation of law to the remaining PRP.Justice Lawrence H. Ecker PUTNAM COUNTY Supreme Court Attorneys for Putnam County Savings Bank: Attn: Melissa Brill, Esq., Cozen O'Connor Attn: Robert C. Lu
3rd Circuit Sends Workers' Wiretap Case Back to State Court
A group of 370 union workers who claim they were subjected to illegal surveillance at a factory in Reading, Pa., have won the right to pursue their wiretap and invasion of privacy claims in the Pennsylvania courts now that the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the federal judge who dismissed their case never had jurisdiction.State AI Legislation Is on the Move in 2024
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