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Law360 Pulse asked corporate counsel to identify some common misconceptions about working in-house and share their thoughts on the rewards and challenges of their jobs. Here's what they said.
In-house attorneys report high job satisfaction when it comes to schedule flexibility, team collegiality, and compensation, but concerns linger about workload and career advancement, particularly for mid-level lawyers seeking to climb the career ladder, according to a new Law360 Pulse report.
It may once have been that the typical in-house lawyer worked a 40-hour week, but that no longer appears to be the case for many corporate counsel, with more than 40% reporting they exceed 50 hours at work each week in a recent survey by Law360 Pulse.
While most in-house lawyers seem generally happy with their outside counsel, about 9% of participants in Law360 Pulse's first In-House Counsel Satisfaction Survey want more, saying they are fed up with being nickel-and-dimed while receiving low quality work and poor communication from their outside attorneys.
The Pennsylvania Superior Court backed the rejection of the Cumberland County District Attorney's Office's request that the county president judge be excluded from hearing all criminal cases because of his law clerk's alleged aggressiveness toward attorneys, reasoning there was nothing in the record to show that the judge was biased.
The co-chair of White and Williams' bankruptcy practice group has joined Stradley Ronon Steven & Young LLP in Philadelphia, the firm announced Tuesday.
Saul Ewing LLP has tapped a 16-year attorney at the firm from New Jersey and the current chair of its labor and employment practice to serve on the firm's seven-member executive committee, the firm announced Tuesday.
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.
A former Pennsylvania federal judge enjoyed two days in retirement before returning to private practice this week after more than 20 years on the bench, joining Saxton & Stump's Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, office.
A former Kline & Specter partner can't disqualify an attorney representing it from his lawsuit against the firm, a Philadelphia judge has determined, because he couldn't prove he had an attorney-client relationship with the lawyer before he resigned.
Keller Postman LLC, Ward & Smith PA, Pope McGlamry PC and Bartimus Frickleton Robertson Rader PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that after a Missouri resident dropped her federal claims in a putative class action over alleged mislabeling of prescription dog food, the case was properly sent back to state court.
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has closed its office in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen after less than two years, a firm spokesperson told Law360 Pulse on Friday, the latest firm to reduce its operations in the country recently.
The legal industry had another busy week as law firms inked new deals, elevated attorneys and expanded practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
Ballard Spahr LLP unveiled five promotions to partner and seven to of counsel on Wednesday, elevating lawyers for four of its five departments in five cities.
U.S. Attorney Sandra Hairston of the Middle District of North Carolina will retire effective Saturday after a lengthy tenure helping put away violent felons and recovering millions of dollars in False Claims Act litigation while supporting and expanding programs and initiatives to help reduce recidivism and violent crimes.
A white Jewish law professor accused the University of Pennsylvania in federal court Thursday of harshly punishing her for making observations about Black student achievement while allowing other faculty members to get away with disparaging and threatening Jews and Israelis, in violation of federal law.
Women, people of color and women of color keep setting records for representation in the nation's legal industry, but a smaller percentage of Black summer associates may portend future challenges, according to a report released Thursday.
A pair of labor attorneys looking to bolster their practices' national reach have joined Blank Rome's Philadelphia office, after more than six years with Stevens & Lee PC.
Marshall Dennehey PC has announced that the managing attorney of its Wilmington, Delaware, office has been appointed to the firm's board of directors for a two-year term.
A Philadelphia-based personal injury attorney convicted for not paying income tax on more than $8 million in revenue he earned and for failing to pay almost $60,000 in payroll taxes received a five-year suspension from New Jersey's Supreme Court but will keep his law license in the state.
President Joe Biden leaves office with 235 lifetime judges confirmed, just one more than President Donald Trump seated during his first term, and many firsts for diversity.
General counsel in a new survey increasingly fear the rise of "nuclear verdicts" — unexpectedly high jury awards — and they are expressing growing support for the use of artificial intelligence to save resources and spot risk.
Philadelphia-based Kleinbard LLC has announced that it is expanding its litigation team by adding an attorney with more than 15 years of experience and elevating a member of its business and finance practice to partner status.
Pennsylvania-based mid-sized firm Tucker Arensberg PC expanded its family law services in the Harrisburg area with the recent addition of an attorney with more than 20 years of experience handling matters such as custody, divorce and adoption.