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Making Globalization Work for the Boutique Firm: Globality's Online Marketplace

Using machine learning, the online platform connects global corporate matters to boutique law firms.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Out-of-State Firms Look to Phila. for Core Practice Building Blocks

National and regional law firms have recently looked to Philadelphia as a source for legal talent and access to clients on a quest to beef up their core practices.
25 minute read

Daily Business Review

Elimination of 'Wet-Foot, Dry-Foot' Policy Will Have Impact on Immigration Law Firms

Elimination of the so-called "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy that gave Cuban immigrants an automatic path to citizenship once they reached U.S. shores will deal a heavy blow to many small and solo immigration law firms in South Florida and other places where many Cubans live.
11 minute read

International Edition

The Asian Lawyer Announces Finalists for 2017 Asian Legal Awards

Davis Polk, Hogan Lovells, Freshfields and Linklaters are among the contestants for the awards that will be announced on February 22 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong.
30 minute read

The American Lawyer

Husch Blackwell Hires High-Profile IP Team in St. Louis

A five-lawyer team from Harness, Dickey & Pierce is leaving the IP-focused firm for Husch Blackwell. The group includes Rudolph Telscher, who once won a critical appellate ruling preserving the sanctity of fantasy baseball and argued the winning side in a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court case on patent fee-shifting.
22 minute read

The American Lawyer

10 Years Out, Report Says Recession's Impact on Firms Is Clear

Law firms are feeling increased pricing pressure from their clients, according to a report released Thursday but the Georgetown University Law Center and Thomson Reuters' Peer Monitor. How law firm leaders address it will separate the top firms from all the rest.
14 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Munsch Hardt Adds ERISA, Health Care Practices with Lateral Hires

The firm gained two shareholders in Dallas from dissolving Shannon, Gracey, Ratliff & Miller.
10 minute read

The American Lawyer

Another Busy Year for Law Firm Deals, But What's Left to Snatch Up?

Legal consulting firms Altman Weil Inc. and Fairfax Associates have issued reports on the state of the law firm merger market in 2016. Last year may have missed out on setting a record for combinations, but it did confirm a trend: In the post-recession legal market, managing partners are more acquisitive than ever.
26 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Norton Rose to Close Pittsburgh Office

Norton Rose Fulbright is closing its Pittsburgh office in the near future, the firm confirmed Thursday.
32 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Offit Kurman Creates Suburban Philadelphia Presence

Baltimore-based Offit Kurman is opening its first office in the suburbs of Philadelphia with the hire of two lawyers from Blue Bell-based Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein.
9 minute read

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