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Monday, January 31, 2011
Datacert, Inc. has announced that Walmart Stores, Inc.has selected Passport, Datacert's patent-pending technology platform, to help strategically manage Walmart's domestic legal processes and systems. In addition, Walmart will implement Datacert's matter management and spend management systems, which are built on Passport.
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Monday, January 31, 2011
King & Spalding has announced the addition of corporate finance partner Ram Burshtine to its New York office - the eighth lateral partner to join the office since the start of 2010. King & Spalding's New York office has seen a substantial influx in talent over the past year. Burshtine's arrival follows that of professional liability and securities...
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Monday, January 31, 2011
DOAR Litigation Consulting LLC, one of the country's largest trial consulting firms, has announced the opening of its office in New Orleans to better support litigators and their clients dealing with cases pending in Louisiana and throughout the south.
The expansion will be led by Victoria Exnicios who joins the company as a Director, bringing...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
King & Spalding has announced that Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez, a former general counsel of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), has joined the firm's leading international arbitration practice as a partner in its New York office. Aguilar-Alvarez joins King & Spalding from Weil, Gotshal & Manges,...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
McCarter & English is pleased to announce that Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell has appointed Thomas J. Rechen the Chair of the Public Defender Services Commission.
Mr. Rechen will complete the term of Carl D. Eisenmann, which concludes on December 20, 2010, and will then serve a full three-year term concluding December 20, 2013. He received the...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Justin Breen has joined Proskauer as a Partner in New York, expanding the firm's Capital Markets Group and further strengthening its high-yield and overall corporate finance capabilities.
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Monday, January 3, 2011
On December 8, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Claims Resolution Act of 2010, which provides $4 billion to individual American Indians and Indian tribes to resolve disputes over past royalties from oil, gas and timber extraction from their lands and water rights disputes in Arizona, New Mexico and Montana.Title IV of this Act - the Crow...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. is pleased to announce that Hervé Gouraige joined the Firm as a Member of its Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Gouraige practices in the areas of health care fraud litigation (False Claims Act cases), general commercial litigation, white collar criminal defense and internal corporate investigations. He has represented corporate...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP announced today that it has awarded partner Robert S. Gerber the firm's 2010 Pro Bono Attorney of the Year Award.Gerber was also named Sheppard Mullin's Pro Bono Attorney of the Decade.
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Monday, January 3, 2011
On November 19, 2010, Australia Acquisition Corp. closed its initial public offering of 6.4 million units at a price of $10.00 per unit. Each unit issued in the IPO consists of one ordinary share and one warrant to purchase one ordinary share at an exercise price of $11.50 per ordinary share. Prior to the effectiveness of the public offering, the company...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
The Financial Times named Jones Day's "transformative" pro bono work on affordable housing as the outstanding U.S. pro bono project of the year in its U.S. Innovative Lawyers Report 2010, published December 1, 2010. The newspaper noted that the Washington initiative "empowered tenants suffering from housing violations" and "created a template way of...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Richard J. Davis, a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, and a vice chair of The Legal Aid Society, was elected Chairman of the Board of the 134-year-old organization by the Board of Directors today. Davis, a highly respected litigator, has served on the Society's Board for more than a decade. Mr. Davis succeeds Alan Levine, partner in charge of the...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Former Assistant United States Attorney Arnold Spencer has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP as a Dallas partner in the firm's white collar criminal defense practice group. Mr. Spencer returns to private practice after more than ten years at the United States Attorney's Office. Most recently, Mr. Spencer served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief of the...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP recently announced the launch of its "green" blog, "GreenEsq." at www.GreenEsqBlog.com. The blog is an interdepartmental effort of the Manhattan-based law firm's Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental practices. The blog will serve as a helpful resource to the real estate community by reporting on the latest...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
As part of its strategy to accelerate growth in New York and Silicon Valley, four new attorneys have joined Lowenstein Sandler as Members of the firm. Renowned white collar defense attorney Ira Lee ("Ike") Sorkin, securities litigator Donald Corbett, and insurance litigator Joseph Jean join the firm's New York office; and venture capital/tech attorney Matt...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
On November 17, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel and the firm of Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz, Silverman & Klestadt LLP co-sponsored a live webinar examining issues with international trade titled Taking Advantage of Customs and Trade Laws. The speaker, Robert Silverman, partner of the Grunfeld, Desideiro Lebowitz, Silverman & Klestadt firm,...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Richard E. Wiley, managing partner of Wiley Rein, has been named the Washington, DC Best Lawyers' "Administrative Lawyer of the Year" for 2011. Only one attorney in each community and specialty area receives this annual honor. According to Best Lawyers, the honorees received particularly high ratings in the publication's surveys "by earning a high level of...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Renowned white collar defense attorney Ira Lee ("Ike") Sorkin has joined Lowenstein Sandler as a Member of the firm. Mr. Sorkin comes to Lowenstein Sandler with well-known securities litigator Donald Corbett, who also joins as a Member of the firm, counsel Nicole P. De Bello and associates Daniel K. Roque and Elliott Z. Stein. All five attorneys join...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Proskauer has announced that Cornell University has established a new professorship in the firm's name at the Cornell School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). The Proskauer Rose Employment and Labor Law Assistant Professorship will advance scholarly work in employment law, labor law, employee benefits, compensation, conflict resolution and...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
King & Spalding ranks among the nation's top mergers and acquisitions legal advisors, according to league-table reports for the first nine months of 2010 issued this month by Thomson Reuters.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
McCarter & English LLP has been named as the recipient of The Leadership Award by the Delaware State Bar Association for its pro bono service.The award was presented at DSBA's Christopher W. White 2010 Distinguished Access to Justice Awards Breakfast on Oct. 26 at 8:00 a.m. in the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Jones Day has announced that it will open an office in São Paulo, Brazil. This will be Jones Day's 33rd office and its second in Latin America after Mexico City.
The office will launch as a foreign legal consultancy, as required by the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), and will open as soon as all regulatory approvals are obtained. Jones Day will open...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Mark Mansour has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a partner in the health industry practice in Washington, focusing on FDA law and policy, the firm announced today.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Weil is the recipient of Lawyers Alliance for New York's 2010 Cornerstone Award honoring outstanding pro bono legal services to nonprofits. The award, presented on Wednesday, October 27, 2010, is for "for exemplary leadership reflected in all aspects of [the firm's] pro bono program."
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP announced today that partner John E. Villafranco has been named the 2011 "Lawyer of the Year" for Advertising and Marketing Law in Washington, D.C., by Best Lawyers.
