Gina Passarella

March 01, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Government affairs professionals in Pennsylvania expressed pure frustration when talking about the state's budget impasse, when they were willing to talk about the sensitive issue at all.

By Gina Passarella

5 minute read

February 25, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman has named a new managing partner of its five-lawyer Pittsburgh office.

By Gina Passarella

3 minute read

February 23, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Robert J. Kerns, the former Montgomery County Republican Party leader and lawyer who pleaded no contest in 2014 to indecent assault of a law firm employee, has been disbarred.

By Gina Passarella

4 minute read

February 23, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

While individual partners may be riding out the waves rippling through the stock market, their clients have made adjustments, holding back on deals and generally slowing the purchase of legal services in an already constrained market for the industry.

By Gina Passarella

6 minute read

February 22, 2016 | Law.com

Citizens do not have a First Amendment right to film police officers absent a challenge to their conduct, a federal judge has ruled in a case of first impression in the Third Circuit.

By Gina Passarella

7 minute read

February 18, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A California-based class actions firm has opened an East Coast office with the addition of two longtime Chimicles & Tikellis attorneys.

By Gina Passarella

4 minute read

February 17, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Ballard Spahr grew gross revenue by 8.2 percent in 2015 thanks in large part to two contingency fee payments the firm collected last year.

By Gina Passarella

5 minute read

February 17, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania law firms ranked toward the bottom of regions nationally when it came to key financial metrics in 2015, but there is cause to be optimistic, according to results from Citi Private Bank Law Firm Group's year-end survey.

By Gina Passarella

4 minute read

February 16, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Recent law firm acquisitions that fall short of full-scale mergers are an example of the creativity industry consultants expect to see more of when it comes to minimizing the risk of expansion efforts. When Morgan, Lewis & Bockius took on more than 500 lawyers from ailing Bingham McCutchen, it acquired some of the liabilities too, while leaving the shell of Bingham, and a chunk of its lawyers, behind. And Feb. 11's announcement that Blank Rome acquired nearly all of the remaining lawyers of Dickstein Shapiro was accompanied by word that Blank Rome would get the assets of Dickstein Shapiro while seemingly avoiding any substantial liabilities. Bingham and Dickstein Shapiro were left to wind down their own affairs.

By Gina Passarella

5 minute read

February 13, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

While most of Pennsylvania's indigenous firms have focused the majority of their lateral growth outside of the state in recent years, the start of 2016 has shown firms are interested in adding talent within the state as well.

By Gina Passarella

6 minute read