White-collar attorneys are hot commodities right now in Pennsylvania, thanks in large part to the value they can add to firms beyond what is traditionally thought of as "white-collar defense."
Over the past year, spurred on by both an uptick in government enforcement activity and clients' increased attentiveness to compliance, several large Pennsylvania firms including Dechert, Ballard Spahr, Pepper Hamilton and Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott have looked to both the lateral market as well as to government agencies for new recruits who are well-versed in the areas of corporate compliance and government enforcement.
