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October 27, 2005 |

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November 18, 2004 |

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.
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July 12, 1999 |

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.
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January 30, 2006 |

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.
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January 16, 2004 |

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Movers and Shakers in the Philadelphia Legal Community
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October 12, 2004 |

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.
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November 21, 2012 |

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.
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October 08, 2004 |

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.
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February 22, 2005 |

Former GOP Chair Novak Returning To Law Practice

When James Rohn recruited former law school classmate Alan P. Novak to open a West Chester office for Conrad O'Brien Gellman & Rohn in 1994, he thought it was an opportunity to capitalize on the growing Chester County business community.
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November 29, 2011 |

Attorney fees in patent case slashed

In a case in which a federal judge had to determine the reasonable rate charged by patent attorneys, a defendant in an infringement case was awarded less than half of its requested attorney fees despite repeated failures by the plaintiff to comply with local patent rules.
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