Wake Up Call: Ballard Spahr Chair Talks About New York Legal Market

Below is a list of today’s top law firm news and the developments affecting your peers:

• “This is a market that’s not crying out for more lawyers obviously.” That’s how Mark Stewart, the chair of Ballard Spahr, described New York City in the first part of an exclusive video interview. Steward talks about his firm’s decision to come to New York, more than 100 years after the firm was started in Philadelphia and also what it would take to open a foreign office. (Big Law Business)

• AtCisco Systems, Mark Chandler, the company’s Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, and Chief Compliance ...