aid: ballard-spahr name: Ballard Spahr description: >- Ballard Spahr LLP is a national U.S. law firm founded in 1885 and headquartered in Philadelphia. Following its January 1, 2025 combination with Seattle-based Lane Powell, the firm operates as a "nationally recognized firm of more than 750 lawyers across 18 U.S. offices" with departments in Business and Transactions, Finance, Intellectual Property, Litigation, and Real Estate. The firm has historic depth in consumer financial services, real estate, public finance, and IP, and runs widely read thought-leadership properties including the Consumer Finance Monitor blog (with public RSS feed) and the Business Better podcast. Ballard Spahr does not expose any public developer API, SDK, OpenAPI spec, or developer portal — its only machine-readable surface is the Consumer Finance Monitor RSS feed. type: Index position: Consumer access: 3rd-Party image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ballard-spahr/refs/heads/main/apis.yml created: '2026-05-23' modified: '2026-05-23' specificationVersion: '0.19' kind: company tags: - Banking - Bankruptcy - Class Action - Commercial Litigation - Consumer Financial Services - Corporate - CFPB - Cybersecurity - Data Privacy - Employment Law - Environmental - ESG - Finance - Fintech - Government Affairs - Healthcare - Intellectual Property - Labor - Law - Law Firm - Legal - Legal Services - Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions - Mortgage - Privacy - Private Equity - Public Finance - Real Estate - Real Estate Finance - Regulatory - REITs - Securities - Tax - Trademarks - White Collar Defense apis: [] common: - type: DomainSecurity url: security/ballard-spahr-domain-security.yml - type: Website url: https://www.ballardspahr.com - type: About url: https://www.ballardspahr.com/about-us - type: Services url: https://www.ballardspahr.com/services - type: People url: https://www.ballardspahr.com/people - type: Offices url: https://www.ballardspahr.com/offices - type: Insights url: https://www.ballardspahr.com/insights - type: Blog url: https://www.consumerfinancemonitor.com - type: RSS url: https://www.consumerfinancemonitor.com/feed/ - type: Podcast url: https://www.ballardspahr.com/insights/podcasts - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ballard-spahr-llp - type: Wikipedia url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballard_Spahr - type: Contact url: https://www.ballardspahr.com/contact x-firm-profile: founded: '1885' headquarters: 1735 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania chair: Peter V. Michaud lawyers: 750+ offices: 18 revenue: $484 million USD (2024, pre-Lane Powell) structure: Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) positioning: National Strategic Law Partners x-departments: - Business and Transactions - Finance - Intellectual Property - Litigation - Real Estate x-practice-areas: - Anti-Money Laundering - Bankruptcy and Restructuring - Class Action Litigation - Commercial Finance - Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution - Construction - Consumer Financial Services - Corporate - Corporate Real Estate - Eminent Domain - Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation - Environmental - Government Affairs and Public Policy - Immigration - Intellectual Property Litigation - Investment Management - Labor and Employment - Mergers and Acquisitions - Mixed-Use Development - Patents - Privacy and Data Security - Private Equity - Product Liability and Mass Tort - Public Finance - Real Estate Development and Property Rights - Real Estate Finance - Real Estate Transactions and Investments - REITs - Securities and Capital Markets - Securities Enforcement and Corporate Governance Litigation - Tax - Trademarks and Copyrights - White Collar Defense and Investigations - Zoning and Land Use x-industries: - Agribusiness - Banking - Education - Energy - Gaming - Healthcare - Hospitality - Manufacturing - Real Estate - Technology x-initiatives: - Artificial Intelligence - Blockchain Technology - Climate Change - Cryptocurrency - ESG x-offices: - Anchorage - Atlanta - Baltimore - Boulder - Delaware - Denver - Las Vegas - Los Angeles - Minneapolis - New Jersey - New York - Philadelphia - Phoenix - Portland - Salt Lake City - San Francisco - Seattle - Sioux Falls - Washington, DC x-mergers: - name: Needle & Rosenberg year: '2008' location: Atlanta - name: Stillman & Friedman year: '2013' location: New York - name: Lindquist & Vennum year: '2018' location: Minneapolis - name: Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz year: '2017' location: Media/First Amendment - name: Lane Powell year: '2025-01-01' location: Seattle / Pacific Northwest note: >- Combination effective January 1, 2025 forming "a nationally recognized firm of more than 750 lawyers across 18 U.S. offices." x-blogs: - name: Consumer Finance Monitor url: https://www.consumerfinancemonitor.com rss: https://www.consumerfinancemonitor.com/feed/ description: >- CFPB, federal agencies, state agencies, and attorneys general — consumer financial services regulation and enforcement coverage from the firm's Consumer Financial Services Group. - name: CyberAdviser url: https://www.ballardspahr.com/insights/blogs/cyberadviser description: Privacy, data security, and cybersecurity law. - name: HR Law Watch url: https://www.ballardspahr.com/insights/blogs/hr-law-watch description: Labor and employment law. x-podcasts: - name: Business Better description: Firm-wide podcast covering business and legal developments. - name: Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast description: Companion podcast to the Consumer Finance Monitor blog. x-developer-surface: none x-developer-surface-notes: >- Ballard Spahr publishes no public developer API, SDK, CLI, OpenAPI/AsyncAPI specification, JSON Schema, GraphQL endpoint, webhooks, status page, changelog, or developer portal. The only machine-readable surface is the Consumer Finance Monitor RSS 2.0 feed at https://www.consumerfinancemonitor.com/feed/. There is no GitHub organization at github.com/ballardspahr or any other identifiable handle. maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com