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Archive for July, 2021

Michael Best Elects Seven Attorneys to Partnership

AnnouncementsMichael Best LLP has elected seven attorneys to the firm’s Partnership

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Buchalter Welcomes New Health Care Attorneys

AnnouncementsBuchalter is pleased to announce the addition of Shareholder David Balfour, and welcome him to the Firm’s San Diego office as a member of the Health Care practice group. Balfour joins with experienced health care litigator, Carol Salmacia, also based in San Diego.

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Akerman Expands Labor and Employment Practice in New York with Partner Genaira L. Tyce

AnnouncementsAkerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm, is pleased to announce that it has expanded its Labor and Employment Practice with partner Genaira L. Tyce in New York.

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Chamberlain Hrdlicka continues its Growth in Houston with five new Attorneys

AnnouncementsFive attorneys joined the Houston office of the national law firm, Chamberlain Hrdlicka, in the recent months, adding to the Commercial Litigation; Corporate, Securities & Finance; and Tax Planning & Business Transactions Practice practices and continuing the firm’s accelerated growth.

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Phillips Nizer Intellectual Property Chair Appointed to Copyright Claims Board

AnnouncementsPhillips Nizer LLP congratulates Intellectual Property Practice Group Chair Monica McCabe, who has been named by the Librarian of Congress as one of the first three copyright claims officers on the newly established Copyright Claims Board.

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Lewis Roca Announces New Leadership Appointments

AnnouncementsLewis Roca has appointed two new office managing partners in its Phoenix and California offices and three new practice group leaders located in the Denver, Los Angeles and Tucson offices.

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Venable Welcomes Jennifer Reddien as the Firm’s Inaugural Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer

AnnouncementsJennifer Reddien has joined Venable LLP in the newly created role of chief diversity and inclusion officer.

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Greensfelder Officers Jennifer Davis and Keith Herman Highly Ranked by Chambers in 2021 for Private Wealth Law

AnnouncementsGreensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., Officers Jennifer Clump Davis and Keith A. Herman have been listed in the 2021 Chambers High Net Worth guide as among the top Missouri attorneys in the area of private wealth law.

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Fort Worth Trucking and Transportation Attorney Steven Laird Selected to Lawdragon’s Top 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers of 2021

AnnouncementsJust weeks after receiving the 2021 Blackstone Award – the Tarrant County Bar Association’s most prestigious legal award – nationally recognized Fort Worth trucking and transportation attorney Steve Laird has earned selection to Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers for 2021.

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WellPet Welcomes Erica Hageman as General Counsel to Spearhead Continued Growth in Premium Pet Nutrition

NewsWellPet, LLC, the largest North America based independent branded premium natural pet food company, announced today that Erica Hageman has been appointed to the role of General Counsel

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Britney’s New Lawyer Calls Out Biglaw Firm in Bid to End Conservatorship

NewsAfter years locked in a conservatorship, Britney Spears has a new lawyer and an opportunity to get out of the arrangement that see says leaves her with a meager stipend and involuntarily

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Companies Agree to $65M Settlement Over Hoosick Falls PFAS Lawsuit

NewsThree companies blamed for the pollution of water supplies in and around the Rensselaer County village of Hoosick Falls have agreed to pay $65 million to settle a federal lawsuit. The deal, first reported

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States Reach Settlement in Opioid Litigation; CT to Get $300M

NewsConnecticut is expected to receive about $300 million of a just-announced $26 billion settlement between a coalition of states and four companies that either manufactured or distributed

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Cybersecurity Compliance Are you Accidentally Breaking the Law?

NewsWhen a business suffers a cyber incident, a myriad of legal and regulatory implications follow. To handle such an incident effectively and legally. The current cyber threat landscape is incredibly active

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Our “Top Five to Ten” List of Important Recent and Upcoming Cases

NewsWhen we published our February newsletter, COVID-related closures were still commonplace, vaccines were only first making their way to the general public, and life felt as uncertain as ever.

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Disbarred Former Biglaw General Counsel Pleads Guilty

NewsThe Biglaw firm of Le Clair Ryan may be gone the partners voted to dissolve the firm in 2019 but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing noteworthy going on with them. The firm’s former general counsel

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Amazon is Paying $8.6 Million to Workers to Settle a Decade-Long Lawsuit Over not Paying Them for Time Spent Searching Their Bags

NewsThe Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week that Amazon must pay warehouse workers for their time spent in mandatory security checks after each shift. Amazon will pay a total of $13.5 million

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8minute Solar Energy Welcomes Jennifer Arasimowicz as new General Counsel

8minute Solar Energy (8minute) announced that Jennifer D. Arasimowicz has been hired as 8minute’s new General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, underscoring 8minute’s continued evolution to one of the country’s clean energy leaders. At 8minute, Arasimowicz will lead the legal and human resources teams, and also oversee compliance, governance, intellectual property strategy and protection, as well as company ESG initiatives.

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Corporate Finance Attorney Catherine S. Bowe Joins Dykema’s Dallas Office

Catherine S. Bowe joins Dykema’s Corporate Finance Practice as Senior Counsel in the firm’s Dallas Office.

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Buchalter Welcomes New Shareholders in Orange County

Buchalter is pleased to announce the addition of two new shareholders in Orange County – Lee C. Cheng joins as a member of the Corporate practice group, and Michael Katz joins as a member of the Litigation practice group.

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