Articles from Scale LLP

Scale LLP, a full-service national law firm, is expanding its telecommunications and media capabilities with the addition of two new attorneys, Seth Williams and Adam Sandler. It follows the addition earlier this year of Allison Rule and Michael Donahue to Scale’s growing DC-based telecom practice.

Skills have become the latest mechanism for getting the most value out of AI tools. These repeatable, automated workflows don’t require code and can open new possibilities for running a legal function. Scale LLP has released Scale Skills, a free set of legal skills built by practicing attorneys. It can be used directly in Anthropic’s Claude and will be expanded for use with additional LLMs. Scale is the first national law firm to release a branded set of Claude skills.

Scale LLP, a full-service, national law firm, today announced that D.C.-based attorneys Allison Rule and Michael Donahue have joined the firm as partners. The addition strengthens Scale’s capabilities in communications and technology-focused legal services, particularly for companies operating in complex, highly regulated environments.

Senior federal lawyers who once defaulted to big law firms are increasingly choosing to continue their careers on a different path, highlighting a broader shift in how top government talent is approaching private practice. Over the past five months, four attorneys with government service backgrounds have joined Scale LLP, a national, distributed firm.

Fathom Law, a San Francisco-based firm known for its emerging companies and venture capital (EC/VC) practice, has merged with Scale LLP, a modern national firm. The merger brings together two firms that share a philosophy of delivering business-minded, startup-savvy counsel with the speed and innovation today's venture-backed companies demand.

After 16 years in public service, former federal prosecutor Matthew Burke is joining Scale LLP as a Partner in its white-collar litigation practice. Burke joins Scale with a deep background in complex investigations and a reputation for handling high-stakes federal cases.

Scale LLP, the Silicon Valley-based distributed law firm, announced today that it has hired San Francisco fintech team Jamie Wells and Alexander Gershen to join the firm’s Fintech & Financial Services group. Wells will join as partner, and Gershen as counsel. Both will be based in Silicon Valley and will serve their fintech and financial services clients nationwide.

Scale LLP, a fast-growing distributed law firm based in Silicon Valley, announced that it has hired industry veteran David Reidy as Managing Partner. Reidy most recently served as Chief Legal & Compliance Officer at fintech startup Payactiv. Previously, Reidy was a partner at McGuireWoods, where he led the national fintech practice and was a co-founder of the firm’s San Francisco office. In addition to serving fintech clients such as Payactiv, Point and LendingClub, Reidy has litigated high-stakes national class action and complex litigation matters for Capital One and Bank of America, among others.