Inspiring Trust.
Inspired People.
Saul Ewing is a full-service, national law firm with more than 400 attorneys and a team of top-notch business professionals, all working together to deliver practical, proactive advice and excellent client service. Our diversity of thought, focus on innovation, cross-serving practices, and culture of coaching create a collegial and supportive environment that inspires us to deliver inspired solutions.
This is The Saul Approach.
We advise clients across the U.S.
D.C.
Washington
DE
Wilmington
MD
Baltimore
MN
Minneapolis
FL
Ft. Lauderdale
Miami
West Palm Beach
IL
Chicago
MA
Boston
NJ
Princeton
Newark
NY
New York
PA
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Chesterbrook
Harrisburg
We focus on these core industries and services:
Bankruptcy & Restructuring
Cannabis
Construction
Corporate
Cybersecurity & Privacy
Energy
Food, Beverage & Agribusiness
We have a strong client services model.
From working one-on-one with clients to developing creative solutions, The Saul Approach is all about personalizing the delivery of our legal services. Our attorneys and professional staff collaborate to provide innovative, out-of-the-box client service programs, tools, and methods tailored to meet our clients’ specific needs. The six pillars of our client solutions model are:
The Saul Approach
Alternative Fee Arrangements
Client Data & Privacy Protection
Client Portal (Powered by HighQ)
Client Service Feedback Program
Peer Learning & Network Roundtables
Staffing & Project Management
Hear about The Saul Approach from Managing Partner Jason St. John
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Our clients speak highly about our lawyers.
He is very thorough and he takes a very comprehensive approach.
She is very switched on, very responsive and helps move things forward.
He is excellent — smart and responsive.
I have seldom seen such creative and original work as that afforded me by him.
She is full of strengths: she's always available, readily accessible, clear in her descriptions of issues and timely in responding to inquiries and reminding me of deadlines. Her work is ten out of ten in all arenas.
We are dedicated to building diverse client service teams through the recruitment, retention and advancement of women, racially and ethnically diverse, and LGBTQ+ professionals. Evident of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, our firm is a proud participant in the Diversity Lab’s Mansfield Rule 7.0 and is a 2023 Mansfield Certified Plus firm. This indicates that we considered at least 30 percent of women, racially and ethnically diverse, and LGBTQ+ lawyers for significant leadership roles, lateral openings, inclusion on pitch teams, and promotions over the year, and we have achieved representation of at least 30 percent of these lawyers in a significant number of these categories.
We have a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment.
DEI-Focused Programming
Diversity Honor Highlights
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DEI-Focused Programming
This program has evolved into one of our biggest internal events of the year.
Annual Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Retreat
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This event includes a panel discussion among four women partners who share the unique talents and skills that they bring to their legal work and how they have leveraged those talents to develop thriving practices. Each woman also discusses the challenges they have faced and continue to face in their careers and the strategies they use to succeed. Panelists and attendees engage in an interactive discussion and Q&A session.
Annual “Women’s Development Initiative: Ask a Partner Forum”
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Hosted in 2022 by the firm’s Appellate Practice, this event explored the imbalance in appellate law relating to women attorneys. The panelists highlighted studies on the topic, different perspectives on the imbalance, how to address it, cross-cultural approaches, and how different systems address imbalance. Small group discussions on impressions of the issue and ways to work as members of the bar to address structural and systemic reasons for the imbalance concluded the program.
“Appealing to Women – The Gender Imbalance in Appellate Practice”
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Ms. Dowell offered training across the firm in 2020/2021 and performed an audit that concluded with several recommendations currently being implemented, including offering inclusive leadership training and developing a sponsorship program to support attorneys from historically underrepresented groups. We hired a full-time diversity professional in 2022 based on Ms. Dowell’s recommendation.
DEI Workshops WITH DEI Practitioner, Consultant & Investigator Erin Dowell, JD
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During the firm’s All-Attorney Retreat in 2022, Dr. Nicole Cutts outlined the business case for and benefits of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging and the tools to help leverage diversity and foster belonging.
“The Role Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Plays in Creating a Sense of Belonging”
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Participants across the firm learned about LGBTQ+ history, events and icons while playing bingo during this virtual event in 2022, with legendary performer Barbara Seville serving as hostess. Among the fun was a fierce battle over who knew more Madonna song titles.
“Pride Month Drag Trivia Contest”
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This town hall was hosted in 2022 to provide a forum for discussion on the firm’s launch of the 4+4 hybrid plan in May, and how our working parents are preparing for a return to the office.
“Working Parents Committee Town Hall on 4+4 Hybrid Plan”
Diversity Honor Highlights
Managing Partner Jason St. John Signs LCLD’s “Leaders Pledge” on DEI Commitment
Jason St. John, Saul Ewing’s managing partner, participated in the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s (LCLD’s) “Leaders at the Front” initiative by developing and signing a “Leaders Pledge,” which outlines his personal and organizational commitment to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
I will lead by example and demonstrate, through my words and actions, that Saul Ewing is a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. I will use my platform to advocate for increased diversity throughout our profession and in the communities in which we reside.
Read the full pledge here
We are innovative.
Our 4+4 hybrid plan, which has been lauded in the press as “flexible and realistic,” asks everyone to be in the office on Wednesdays, allowing for meaningful in-person connections. In addition to Wednesdays, we encourage everyone to be with clients or colleagues in-person at least four additional days per month.
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Named one of the “Top Women in Law” by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and Chicago Lawyer Magazine, 2022
Named one of South Florida Business Journal’s “Diverse Voices,” 2022
Named one of Crain’s Chicago Business’ “Notable Executives in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,” 2021
Named one of Maryland’s “Top 100 Women” by The Daily Record, 2021 (awarded for the second time)
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The Saul Approach
Alternative Fee Arrangements
Client Data & Privacy Protection
Client Portal (Powered by HighQ)
Client Service Feedback Program
Peer Learning & Network Roundtables
Staffing & Project Management
Alternative Fee Arrangements
Alternative Fee Arrangements
We employ a variety of alternative fee models that permit clients to budget and manage legal expenses with a higher degree of certainty.
These include:
Learn more here
Negotiated fees
Blended fees
Fixed fees
Retainer-based arrangement
“Cap and floor” fixed-fee arrangements
“Success fees” where a holdback against negotiated fees is paid to the firm upon reaching a pre-defined result.
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SAULutions is a firmwide innovation challenge that empowers everyone to provide input on how we can make improvements across the firm and enhance client service with winning ideas implemented.
Our entrepreneurial spirit encourages the development of niche practices that serve clients in evolving areas, such as: Cannabis Law, Esports, InsurTech and Opportunity Zones.
In addition, we have established programs that feature alternate fee arrangements for these three client situations:
• Outsourced General Counsel
• Procurement and Contracting Services
• Capacity Expansion Service
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INTRODUCTION
The Saul Approach
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
WE ARE INNOVATIVE
Client Data &
Privacy Protection
Client Data & Privacy Protection
We take a comprehensive approach to managing business and security risks:
Learn more here
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The firm is ISO/IEC 27001 certified and has also secured the ISO/IEC 27701 (Privacy) extension.
We were among the first U.S. law firms to achieve the latter certification by implementing a “Privacy Information Management System” (PIMS) with multiple layers of security controls to protect firm and client data.
Several of our attorneys hold the Certified Information Privacy Professionals (CIPP/US) credential and serve as a firmwide resource on cybersecurity and privacy protection principles.
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In addition, we have established programs that feature alternate fee arrangements for these three client situations:
• Outsourced General Counsel
• Procurement and Contracting Services
• Capacity Expansion Service
Client Portal
(Powered by HighQ)
Client Portal (Powered by HighQ)
Saul Ewing’s collaboration space and business intelligence platform, powered by HighQ, is a secure, encrypted, and centralized hub for our clients’ data management. In this virtual data room, our clients share and organize key matter documents; view monthly bills; communicate with team members; assign and track tasks; and access shared calendars.
Features include multiple levels of access restrictions, customizable user notification settings, robust reporting capabilities, and visual dashboards for all modules, allowing users to view data such as year-to-date billing or upcoming deadlines in an easily digestible format.
Learn more here
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In addition, we have established programs that feature alternate fee arrangements for these three client situations:
• Outsourced General Counsel
• Procurement and Contracting Services
• Capacity Expansion Service
Client Service Feedback Program
Client Service Feedback Program
We offer a complimentary Client Service Feedback Program in which our director of client relations conducts hour-long interviews, separately, with multiple people at client organizations. We inquire about the quality of our work, communication, and responsiveness, as well as our knowledge of the client’s business. We encourage an open and candid conversation, as the firm’s director of client relations has the authority to act upon client feedback. After the interview process, we share comments received with the client service team and follow up to help ensure service improvements are made. We also take other actions based upon our conversations, examples of which include developing a fixed-fee relationship to alleviate billing pressures, organizing an in-house CLE in advance of a new legal development, helping to place a client on a speaking panel at a national conference, or connecting a client to a service provider.
Learn more here
In addition +
In addition, we have established programs that feature alternate fee arrangements for these three client situations:
• Outsourced General Counsel
• Procurement and Contracting Services
• Capacity Expansion Service
Peer Learning & Network Roundtables
Peer Learning & Network Roundtables
Recognizing that not every in-house attorney has a built-in network of colleagues, we curate roundtable groups of in-house counsel based on shared interests, common roles, or specific needs.
Learn more here
Some of our groups have included those interested in:
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Women peer networking
Lawyers from small in-house departments
Attorneys in privacy or cybersecurity roles
U.S.-based counsel with headquarters overseas
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These complimentary groups meet regularly, in-person or virtually, in open-agenda style meetings with our attorneys facilitating. Attendees share challenges, trends, and best practices for handling the many issues that come across their desks each day. We intentionally keep the roundtable groups small in size so that participants forge meaningful relationships with their fellow in-house counsel.
Staffing & Project Management
Staffing & Project Management
As part of The Saul Approach, we employ various resources to help promote predictability, transparency and proactive communication in the delivery of our legal services. Our focus is on:
Learn more here
Smart staffing – We use Saul Ewing Experience & Knowledge (SEEK), our internal experience database, where we categorize all of our work by attorney, industry sector, service type, geography, and date. SEEK allows us to identify attorneys with the precise experience that most aligns with the client needs at hand.
Personalized budgets – Depending on client needs, we create customized budgets at the matter, phase, or task level. Using historical data and attorney input on the client and matter specifics at hand, our project
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management team creates a work plan detailing the matter phases, responsible team members, and target dates of completion.
A defined process through effective project management – Once a matter commences, our project management team helps to ensure that our legal work is aligned with the scope reflected in the work plan and budget. Using matter management software, we track actual hours and fees billed against budgeted time and monitor work volume, levels of task billing against budget thresholds, and the average rate at which the work is being performed.
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We have a strong client services model.
From working one-on-one with clients to developing creative solutions, The Saul Approach is all about personalizing the delivery of our legal services. Our attorneys and professional staff collaborate to provide innovative, out-of-the-box client service programs, tools, and methods tailored to meet our clients’ specific needs. The seven pillars of our client solutions model are:
Hear about The Saul Approach from Managing Partner Jason St. John
Watch video
Alternative Fee Arrangements
Client Data & Privacy Protection
Client Portal (Powered by HighQ)
Client Service Feedback Program
Peer Learning & Network Roundtables
Resources, Access and Mentoring Program
Staffing & Project Management
The Saul Approach
Alternative Fee Arrangements
Client Data & Privacy Protection
Client Portal (Powered by HighQ)
Client Service Feedback Program
Peer Learning & Network Roundtables
Resources, Access and Mentoring Program
Staffing & Project Management
The Saul Approach
Alternative Fee Arrangements
Alternative Fee Arrangements
We employ a variety of alternative fee models that permit clients to budget and manage legal expenses with a higher degree of certainty.
Learn more here
In addition +
These include:
Negotiated fees
Bended fees
Fixed fees
Retainer-based arrangement
“Cap and floor” fixed-fee arrangements
“Success fees” where a holdback against negotiated fees is paid to the firm upon reaching a pre-defined result.
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In addition, we have established programs that feature alternate fee arrangements for these three client situations:
• Outsourced General Counsel
• Procurement and Contracting Services
• Capacity Expansion Service
Client Data &
Privacy Protection
Client Data & Privacy Protection
We take a comprehensive approach to managing business and security risks:
Learn more here
In addition +
The firm is ISO/IEC 27001 certified and has also secured the ISO/IEC 27701 (Privacy) extension.
We were among the first U.S. law firms to achieve the latter certification by implementing a “Privacy Information Management System” (PIMS) with multiple layers of security controls to protect firm and client data.
Several of our attorneys hold the Certified Information Privacy Professionals (CIPP/US) credential and serve as a firmwide resource on cybersecurity and privacy protection principles.
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In addition, we have established programs that feature alternate fee arrangements for these three client situations:
• Outsourced General Counsel
• Procurement and Contracting Services
• Capacity Expansion Service
Client Portal
(Powered by HighQ)
Client Portal (Powered by HighQ)
Saul Ewing’s collaboration space and business intelligence platform, powered by HighQ Solutions Ltd., is a secure, encrypted, and centralized hub for our clients’ data management. In this virtual data room, our clients share and organize key matter documents; view monthly bills; communicate with team members; assign and track tasks; and access shared calendars.
Features include multiple levels of access restrictions, customizable user notification settings, robust reporting capabilities, and visual dashboards for all modules, allowing users to view data such as year-to-date billing or upcoming deadlines in an easily digestible format.
Learn more here
In addition +
In addition, we have established programs that feature alternate fee arrangements for these three client situations:
• Outsourced General Counsel
• Procurement and Contracting Services
• Capacity Expansion Service
Client Service Feedback Program
Client Service Feedback Program
We offer a complimentary Client Service Feedback Program in which our director of client relations conducts hour-long interviews, separately, with multiple people at client organizations. We inquire about the quality of our work, communication, and responsiveness, as well as our knowledge of the client’s business. We encourage an open and candid conversation, as the firm’s director of client relations has the authority to act upon client feedback. After the interview process, we share comments received with the client service team and follow up to help ensure service improvements are made. We also take other actions based upon our conversations, examples of which include developing a fixed-fee relationship to alleviate billing pressures, organizing an in-house CLE in advance of a new legal development, helping to place a client on a speaking panel at a national conference, or connecting a client to a service provider.
Learn more here
In addition +
In addition, we have established programs that feature alternate fee arrangements for these three client situations:
• Outsourced General Counsel
• Procurement and Contracting Services
• Capacity Expansion Service
Peer Learning & Network Roundtables
Peer Learning & Network Roundtables
Recognizing that not every in-house attorney has a built-in network of colleagues, we curate roundtable groups of in-house counsel based on shared interests, common roles, or specific needs.
Learn more here
Some of our groups have included those interested in:
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Women peer networking Lawyers from small in-house departments
Attorneys in privacy or cybersecurity roles
U.S.-based counsel with headquarters overseas
These complimentary groups meet regularly, in-person or virtually, in open-agenda style meetings with our attorneys facilitating. Attendees share challenges, trends, and best practices for handling the many issues that come across their desks each day. We intentionally keep the roundtable groups small in size so that participants forge meaningful relationships with their fellow in-house counsel.
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Resources, Access and Mentoring Program
Resources, Access and Mentoring Program (RAMP)
Through RAMP, we bring together entrepreneurs, investors, higher education and commercial partners to help start businesses and commercialize technologies that help to fuel the innovation economies of the cities throughout our footprint. Our RAMP program is designed to provide entrepreneurs the support and practical direction needed to grow and sustain a business in addition to basic legal needs. Through a variety of events that we host each year, we have created opportunities for members of the innovation ecosystem to come together and make connections—whether they are entrepreneurs trying to build their networks, startups seeking financing, mature companies looking to acquire technology, universities wanting to commercialize their latest innovation or investors aiming to finance any such venture.
Learn more here
In addition +
In addition, we have established programs that feature alternate fee arrangements for these three client situations:
• Outsourced General Counsel
• Procurement and Contracting Services
• Capacity Expansion Service
Staffing & Project Management
Staffing & Project Management
As part of The Saul Approach, we employ various resources to help promote predictability, transparency and proactive communication in the delivery of our legal services. Our focus is on:
Learn more here
Smart staffing – We use Saul Ewing Experience & Knowledge (SEEK), our internal experience database, where we categorize all of our work by attorney, industry sector, service type, geography, and date. SEEK allows us to identify attorneys with the precise experience that most aligns with the client needs at hand.
Personalized budgets – Depending on client needs, we create customized budgets at the matter, phase, or task level. Using historical data and attorney input on the client and matter specifics at hand, our project
management team creates a work plan detailing the matter phases, responsible team members, and target dates of completion.
A defined process through effective project management – Once a matter commences, our project management team helps to ensure that our legal work is aligned with the scope reflected in the work plan and budget. Using matter management software, we track actual hours and fees billed against budgeted time and monitor work volume, levels of task billing against budget thresholds, and the average rate at which the work is being performed.
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We advise clients across the U.S.
D.C.
Washington
CA
Los Angeles
Orange County
DE
Wilmington
FL
Ft. Lauderdale
Miami
West Palm Beach
IL
Chicago
MA
Boston
MD
Baltimore
MN
Minneapolis
NJ
Newark
Princeton
NY
New York
PA
Chesterbrook
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
D.C.
Washington
CA
Los Angeles
Orange County
DE
Wilmington
FL
Ft. Lauderdale
Miami
West Palm Beach
IL
Chicago
MA
Boston
MD
Baltimore
MN
Minneapolis
NJ
Newark
Princeton
NY
New York
PA
Chesterbrook
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
We advise clients across the U.S.