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This month’s Friday Five explores decisions from around the country discussing the concept of reasonableness in various forms. One court rejected the parties’ proffered definitions of the term “working” and instead determined that a dictionary definition was reasonable. Two cases reflect courts...
(Philadelphia) April 30, 2025 - Saul Ewing LLP announced that it has named Kelly P. Enache as its first-ever Chief Strategic Operations Officer, effective today. In this newly-created role, Kelly will oversee strategic initiatives across business units, identify new growth opportunities and work...
Harvard University has filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s decision to freeze more than $2 billion in federal grants and contracts benefitting Harvard. The funding freeze came after Harvard refused a list of demands aimed at eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)...
Saul Ewing LLP, a full-service national law firm, is proud to announce that Harrisburg Partner Kara Pike was honored as one of Central Penn Business Journal’s Power List for Law honorees. The 2025 Power List for Law is composed of attorneys who have impacted the region with their work and are...
On April 15, 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) informed the public that, effective May 13, 2025, the USPTO will be accelerating the process for issuing patents. Currently, the time between Issue Notification and Issue Date averages around three weeks. However, with the...
Saul Ewing LLP, a full-service national law firm, is proud to announce that Real Estate Practice Vice Chair Igor Pleskov was selected as a Lawyers on the Fast Track honoree as part of The Legal Intelligencer's 2025 Pennsylvania Legal Awards . The Pennsylvania Legal Awards honor attorneys who have...
Saul Ewing LLP is pleased to announce that Amy Kline and Caitlin Strauss have been honored in the 2025 JD Supra Readers' Choice Awards for their exemplary authorship of The Friday Five. This prestigious award recognizes the top authors and firms for exceptional thought leadership over the past year...
BOSTON (APRIL 3, 2025) – Saul Ewing is welcoming a new Chief Information Officer to the firm, Eric J. Haas, who will serve as a key strategic advisor to the managing partner, executive partner, the Executive Committee and other firm leaders regarding the firm’s technology. He is resident in Saul...
New York, NY (March 27, 2025) – Saul Ewing LLP successfully represented Cloudastructure, Inc., a cloud-based video surveillance platform with artificial intelligence and computer vision analytics, in securing a $4.5 million investment through the issuance of Series 2 Convertible Preferred Stock. The...
On March 6, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a civil money penalty (“CMP”) of $200,000 against Oregon Health & Science University (“OHSU”) for failing to provide a patient’s personal representative with timely access to medical...
The Trump administration has declared March 12, 2025, as “the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in the history of the United States.” United States Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Lee Zeldin, issued various press releases (linked on our Environmental Executive...
What You Need to Know: • Instead of filing multiple applications claiming different aspects of an invention but not sharing a single priority chain, patentees should strive to file highly comprehensive applications that consider as many features and aspects of the invention as possible. Such a...
This month’s Friday Five addresses cases covering ERISA preemption, the viability of a claim for benefits where the claimant alleges to have not received notice of a prior claim denial, an affirmance by the Circuit Court of a denial of benefits, and District Court reviews of decisions denying...
WILMINGTON, DE (March 7, 2025) - Saul Ewing LLP announced today that Partner Rick Carroll has been appointed Chair of the Firm’s Corporate Practice, alongside Vice Chair Dennis J. Brennan. ”I am incredibly honored to lead Saul Ewing’s Corporate Practice. Working with my talented colleagues across...
On February 25, 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued an interim final rule [1] rescinding its regulations under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The CEQ’s action, in response to President Trump’s Unleashing American Energy Executive Order, [2] comes fifty-six years...
Appeal deadline is currently March 14. Council has introduced an ordinance to extend deadline to March 31, 2025. The ordinance will not be considered until March 13. At a specially scheduled meeting held March 5, New Castle County Council introduced an ordinance to extend the deadline to file...
Marking a significant step forward in launching Minnesota’s adult-use cannabis market, the state’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) began accepting applications for cannabis business licenses on February 18, 2025. The application cycle runs through March 14th and includes various license types...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 3, 2024) - Saul Ewing LLP today announced that Partner Jason McElroy has been named Managing Partner of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. The Managing Partner functions as the office’s Chief Executive and is responsible for, among other things, managing office budgets and...
Saul Ewing LLP, a full-service national law firm, is proud to announce that Partner Matt Kohel was included in The Daily Record’s 2025 Business Law Power List. This group is composed of the most influential and respected practitioners in the business law sector in Maryland. To view the full list of...