Laventhol & Horwath, a mid-size Philadelphia-based firm that has grown rapidly through acquisitions, has also had a string of adverse settlements, serious enough to have forced its partners to take a deep pay cut last year.

The building team also consisted of the Philadelphia-based firm, Ballinger, as associate architect; OLIN as landscape architect; and Fisher Marantz Stone as lighting designers.

Law firms, including branches of Philadelphia-based firms, want offices near the courthouse, one block off State Street.

Fighting back against this kind of trickery and winning is a lot easier than you think, says Kevin Flynn, the president of Healthcare Advocates, a Philadelphia-based firm that helps patients wrangle with their health plans.

Now, with the accounting industry in a downturn, the Philadelphia-based firm is paying the price for its ambitions.

Somerset Bankshares Inc. said it had received an unsolicited takeover offer of $10.50 a share from Von Seldeneck, Snyder & Company, a Philadelphia-based firm, for its outstanding shares.

Burnham, as a "sub-major" firm, needed to connect with a "major" or "special" firm in order to further expand, and in 1967 found a willing partner in Drexel Firestone, an ailing Philadelphia-based firm with a rich history.

The Palo Alto office joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, a rapidly expanding Philadelphia-based firm, while much of the New York office joined national firm Jones Day.

In January 1931, the firm merged with Brown Bros. & Co., a Philadelphia-based firm founded in 1818, to create the highly successful Brown Brothers Harriman & Co..

The Philadelphia-based firm is reported to provide seed-stage investments that have ranged between $250,000 to $500,000.