Law firm Cohen & Grigsby has launched a public affairs practice that will be headed by Clifford Levine, a director at the firm with deep government and political connections.
So far this year, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Pittsburgh's third-largest law firm, has hired 19 lawyers in Pittsburgh, and it's far from finished.
Chief legal officers at corporations across the country said they are bringing more work inside and increasing their staff and budgets to do so, according to a survey conducted by Altman Weil Inc., a Kennett Square, Pa.-based consultant to law firms and legal departments.