No. 1: Ballard Spahr CMO Gone After Eight Months
Ballard Spahr has parted ways with its chief marketing and business development officer after just eight months, the firm's chairman confirmed. Read more

No. 2: Courtroom Descends Into Chaos in $1M Sanction Case
A hearing Tuesday in the case of defense attorney Nancy Raynor, sanctioned $1 million for eliciting banned testimony, took on the atmosphere of a boxing ring with lawyers and the judge engaging in heated shouting matches in all directions. Read more

No. 3: Dechert Raises Associate Pay in Phila., Princeton
Competition among law firms for market share is fierce, and so too, it seems, is the competition for associates. In the past two years, Pennsylvania law firms have been bumping up, sometimes quietly, associate salaries. Read more

No. 4: Law Firm Breakup Turns Ugly
A Philadelphia judge has said two former law firm partners do not have standing to sue each other over issues related to the dissolution of their former firm, including one partner accusing the other of diverting firm money to pay for child support following an affair. Read more

No. 5: Ex-Drinker Biddle Staff Attorney Suspended for Overbilling
A former Drinker Biddle & Reath staff attorney agreed to a two-year suspension from the practice of law after admitting he overbilled for his time doing document review at the firm, according to an order from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Read more

No. 6: Firm Partnership Ranks at K&L Gates Being Trimmed
When more than 90 partners in seven months leave a law firm, no matter how large, eyebrows are raised and at least 91 different stories can be had about the cause. For K&L Gates, those stories have played out publicly across legal media in recent weeks as former partners and the firm's chairman offer up their explanations for departures across the 2,000-lawyer firm's increasingly global platform. Read more

No. 7: 16 Lawyers to Leave Stevens & Lee, Form New Firm
Seven shareholders, including the head of the health care risk management and litigation department, are leaving Stevens & Lee to form a boutique law firm, Stevens & Lee announced April 10. Read more

No. 8: Compensation, Billable Hour Limiting Firms' Success
A wealth of information, little market growth, and increased competition have created an environment where many firms need to consider changing, but significant obstacles, particularly compensation structures and reliance on the billable hour, remain in the way. Read more

No. 9: Kane Consultants Testimony Changed Documents Show
The political consultant who delivered the leaked material at the heart of the indictment against Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane changed his testimony over the course of two appearances before the grand jury investigating the leak, according to documents unsealed by the state Supreme Court. Read more

No. 10: Supreme Court Unseals Orders in Kane Case
In response to Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane's call for the release of allegedly pornographic and racist emails she claims are at the heart of a political vendetta against her, the state Supreme Court has unsealed orders in the underlying cases, and signaled that more documents could be unsealed soon. Read more