Tag: News
Lighthouse Brings Precision and Cost Savings to Review with Focus Discovery
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Lighthouse eDiscovery announces an innovative new service that leverages technology and substantive analysis to organize, prioritize, and bring focus to review.
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg Names New Managing Partner
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Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg has just named Scott J. Fisher the firm’s new managing partner effective January 1, 2016.
Patricia Spiccia Joins Quarles & Brady’s Tax-Exempt Organizations Practice Group
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Quarles & Brady has added Patricia Spiccia to the firm’s Chicago office in its Tax-Exempt Organizations Practice Group.
ERISA Ruling: Claimant Has ‘Duty to Investigate’ When Asserting Equitable Tolling of Contractual Limitations Provision
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A plaintiff is not reasonably diligent when she fails to investigate basic issues that are relevant to her claim or to proceed with it in a reasonably prompt fashion.
DLA Piper Expands Philadelphia Office
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Matthew Genkin has joined DLA Piper’s Corporate practice as an associate in its Philadelphia office.
Latham & Watkins Advises LifeStorage in Financing from Consortium
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Latham & Watkins LLP advised LifeStorage, L.P. and its affiliates in securing a new $300 million acquisition facility & term loan from a consortium.
New Law Firm Forms in Houston: Feldman & Feldman
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Two lawyers, Cristen D. Feldman and David M. Feldman, have formed a new Houston law firm called Feldman & Feldman.
$663 Million in Penalties for Maker of Guardrail
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At least 14 lawsuits blame the Trinity Industries guardrails for causing injuries in crashes, including five deaths.
Boston Scientific Ordered to Pay $100 Million Over Mesh
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A Delaware jury has determined that Boston Scientific Corp. must pay $100 million to a Delaware woman who blamed the company’s vaginal-mesh inserts for leaving her in constant pain, reports Bloomberg.
DTI Announces the Acquisition of Merrill Legal Solutions
The acquisition expands the DTI platform in both scope and geographic reach while adding legal service operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia.
Attorneys at Dallas’ Simon Greenstone Panatier Bartlett Win 2 of Texas’ Top Verdicts for 2014
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Attorneys from Dallas-based Simon Greenstone Panatier Bartlett, PC won two of the largest verdicts in Texas last year, according to the publishers of VerdictSearch.
Christopher Kratovil Elected to Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation
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Christopher Kratovil, a member of Dykema, has been elected to membership in the Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation.
Nicole Bashor Appointed to National LGBT Bar Association and Foundation Board of Directors
NEWSNicole A. Bashor of Quarles & Brady has been appointed as an affiliate representative of the National LGBT Bar Association and Foundation board of directors.
AZA Named 2015 Litigation Department of the Year by Texas Lawyer Newspaper
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Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing P.C., or AZA, has earned selection as a Litigation Department of the Year for 2015 by the publishers of Texas Lawyer newspaper.
Cooley Adds California University Attorney and Regulatory Policy Advocate
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Cooley is enhancing its higher education practice with the addition of Katherine (“Kate”) Lee Carey who is joining the firm’s San Diego office as Special Counsel.
The ‘Great Energy Transition’ is Already Underway, According to a New Book
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In many parts of the United States, the author says, putting solar panels on your roof now provides electricity at a lower cost than the local utility.
Texas Court Rules Fractionalized Life Settlement Interests are Investment Contract
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The Texas State Securities Board and some investors sued Life Partners Inc. and Life Partners Holdings Inc. in 2012.
Dallas’ Standly Hamilton Wins Top Texas Premises Liability Verdict In Past 10 Years
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Plaintiffs claimed that lax security contributed to two teenagers’ deaths after the two were beaten in a McDonald’s parking lot in College Station.
Leading Design Professionals Attorney Mitchell Milby Joins Wilson Elser’s Dallas Office
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Mitchell Milby focuses his practice on representing design professionals, primarily contractors, architects and engineers, as outside general counsel on matters that involve professional liability
Mark Bina Elected to Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Board of Directors
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Quarles & Brady LLP today announced that Mark W. Bina, a partner in the firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution and Health Law Practice Groups, has been elected to the board of directors of Chicago Volunteer Legal Services.
