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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
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
Daniel J. Standish, chair of Wiley Rein's Insurance Practice, began serving a one-year term as president of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) on November 12, 2010. PLUS, a non-profit organization founded in 1986, today includes over 6,000 individual members representing more than 1,000 companies in the professional liability field....
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Datacert recently unveiled Passport, its patent-pending, technology platform for the legal industry, at an exclusive thought-leadership event in New York City. Passport, which was developed and tested with Datacert's global client base, solution partners and other top industry leaders, consolidates all legal technology systems in one space and provides...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Workshare, a leading provider of document collaboration software, today announces the release of Workshare Compare Server 5.2, a document comparison solution delivered from a centralized server for easy access across the organization. The software provides accurate document and PDF comparison to ensure accuracy and compliance in high-value documents.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Stradley Ronon senior counsel Bennett G. Picker was named the Best Lawyers' 2011 Philadelphia Area Alternative Dispute Resolution "Lawyer of the Year." The 2011 Best Lawyers in America is based on an exhaustive peer-review of legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is honored as "...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Datacert recently unveiled Passport, its patent-pending, technology platform for the legal industry, at an exclusive thought-leadership event in New York City. Passport, which was developed and tested with Datacert's global client base, solution partners and other top industry leaders, consolidates all legal technology systems in one space and provides...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
The partnership of Proskauer has elected Joseph M. Leccese as the next Chairman of the global firm. He will assume office in January 2011.
Mr. Leccese, 49, is the youngest elected chairman in Proskauer's 135-year history. He began his legal career at the firm as a summer associate, and is currently a partner in the Corporate Department, a member of...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Lowenstein Sandler has earned top rankings in two league tables for its representation of placement agents in Private Investments in Public Equity and Registered Direct (PIPE/RD) transactions during the first three quarters of 2010.
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Goodwin Procter has announced that it has expanded its Marketing, Business Development and Communications leadership team with the addition of Lee Feldman as Director of Communications and Nancy Kostakos as Director of Marketing.
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. has announced that Joshua N. Howley, Theodora (Teddy) McCormick and Lori M. Waldron have been named Members of the Firm; and Jonathan S. Jemison and Lisa A. Sokoloff have been named Of Counsel to the Firm, effective October 1, 2010.
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Tuesday, November 2, 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.
For U.S. small-cap rankings from January 1 through September 30, 2010, the firm was 26th out of 49 firms, based on the value of deals, in the category of...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Stradley Ronon was named a "Tier 1" firm in Philadelphia for alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and insurance law in the recently released 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and as published in U.S. News and World Report.
The firm was also nationally recognized as among the best law firms by Best Lawyers in insurance law and intellectual...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Wiley Rein LLP has welcomed Jennifer S. Zucker as a partner in its highly regarded Government Contracts Practice. Ms. Zucker counsels companies in the defense sector, intelligence community, high-tech industry and strategic consulting arena of federal procurement law. She focuses on bid protests, contract disputes and claims, contract formation and...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Williams Kastner was presented a 2010 Beacon of Justice Award by the National Legal Aid & Defender Association. The award honors law firms that have "made a significant commitment to pro bono representation in the area of immigration."
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Monday, October 4, 2010
Proskauer has announced the release of The New Health Care Reform Law: What Employers Need to Know (A Q&A Guide), a definitive handbook for managers on the sweeping changes brought about by the new United States health care reform law.
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Monday, October 4, 2010
Weil corporate governance partners Holly J. Gregory and Ira M. Millstein have been named among the National Association of Corporate Directors' (NACD) "2010 Directorship 100." The Directorship 100 list is comprised of leading corporate directors, CEOs, practitioners, policymakers, and regulators (including President Barack Obama, Senator Christopher Dodd,...
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Monday, October 4, 2010
J. Thomas Schieffer, a former U.S. ambassador to both Australia and Japan, has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as senior counsel, the firm announced today. Amb. Schieffer will advise clients in the global energy, trade, transportation, defense and intelligence industries.
Amb. Schieffer began his career in the Texas Legislature. Elected...
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Monday, October 4, 2010
Fish & Richardson has announced that José P. Sierra has joined the firm's Boston office as a principal in its Litigation Group. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Sierra was chief compliance and ethics officer for Sepracor Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company. He will work in the firm's pharmaceutical and medical device industry practices focusing on...
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Monday, October 4, 2010
In a recent decision issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Goodwin Procter LLP achieved a litigation victory for its client Pass & Seymour/Legrand (P&S), a leading supplier of electrical wiring devices. The Federal Circuit affirmed an ITC ruling that a number of China-based manufacturers and their U.S. distributors had...
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Monday, October 4, 2010
Gregory D. Ruback, a corporate lawyer with significant experience in leveraged finance, has joined Proskauer's New York office as a partner, further expanding the firm's global finance and transactional capabilities.
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Monday, October 4, 2010
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP has announced that William P. Hunt III has joined the firm's Chicago office as special counsel. As a member of the Telecommunications Practice Group, which is among the largest telecommunications practices in the United States, Mr. Hunt represents clients in regulatory and compliance proceedings, in private litigation, and in...
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Monday, October 4, 2010
Sills Cummis partner Beth S. Rose, longtime member of the firm and Product Liability Practice Group Chair, has been selected as one of Law360's "10 Most Admired Product Liability Attorneys."
Ms. Rose has served as national counsel to pharmaceutical and medical device makers in mass tort litigation, including claims related to PPA and a generic form of...
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Monday, October 4, 2010
King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, announced today that S. Bruce Wilson will join the firm's Washington office as a senior counsel in its international trade practice, effective October 1, 2010. Mr. Wilson, who has served for the past eight years as the head legal officer of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, has...
