For the 13th year in a row, Ballard Spahr has earned Gold Standard Certification from the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF)—one of just four law firms nationwide to achieve the standard every year since the program's inception in 2011.
Ballard Spahr’s Intellectual Property department and nine of its IP attorneys have been recognized for excellence in the 2023 edition of Managing IP’s IP Stars rankings.
The Biden Administration has launched an initiative directed at combatting so-called “junk fees,” with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) leading the Administration’s efforts.
Justin H. Brown, a partner at national law firm Ballard Spahr, has been awarded the Daniel R. Ginsberg Leadership Award by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in recognition of his “leadership in the fight against anti-Semitism, racism, and all forms of prejudice.”
Ballard Spahr attorneys Kahlil C. Williams and Emilia McKee Vassallo have been named Fellows of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) for 2023, and Chittam U. Thakore has been named a 2023 LCLD Pathfinder, the firm announced.
JD Supra has recognized Ballard Spahr and three attorney-authors with 2023 Readers' Choice Awards, including naming the firm the Top Firm in Finance and Banking for the fourth year in a row.
The Philadelphia Business Journal has recognized Ballard Spahr’s Bart I. Mellits as a Best Real Estate Dealmaker for 2022 and the firm’s Devon Beverly as a Rising Star in dealmaking.
Ballard Spahr and attorneys in the firm’s Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Phoenix offices have been recognized by the 2023 World Trademark Review 1000 (WTR 1000) for their outstanding work in trademark law.
In recent weeks, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued two proposals that would require nonbanks to register with and submit information to the CFPB for publication in an online, publicly available database.
Anthony W. “Tony” Lepore—who advised governors, cabinet members, and hundreds of legislators during more than two decades as Chief of Staff to Pennsylvania Senate Democrats—has joined the Government Affairs and Public Policy Group at Ballard Spahr.
At this year's Midyear Tax Meeting, Peter Hardy is participating on a panel focusing on how the IRS-CI increasingly uses BSA data, and will further use CTA data, to identify individuals involved in illicit activities and locate assets used in such criminal acts, including money laundering, corruption, tax evasion, and other financial crimes.
In recent months, debt relief law firms and other credit repair organizations have mailed volumes of cease and desist letters, debt validation requests, and vague demand letters to creditors.
Ballard Spahr represented the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) in the closing and financing of the first bridge “package” of its Major Bridge Public-Private Partnership (MBP3).
Join Adam J. White, a renowned expert on Separation of Powers and the Appropriations Clause and a close follower of the Supreme Court, as well as members of Ballard Spahr's Consumer Financial Services Group, for a 90-minute deep dive into all important aspects of the Fifth Circuit opinion in CFSA v. CFPB.
Ballard Spahr Intellectual Property Partner Kenneth H. Sonnenfeld, Ph.D., has been named to the IAM Global Leaders 2023 list of distinguished patent attorneys worldwide.
