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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.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
On November 10, 2010, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) announced the launch of a Compliance Training Portal intended to help organizations strengthen their compliance efforts and enhance their ethical business culture.Developed with WeComply, Inc., an ACC Alliance Partner and a leading provider of compliance training and services, the portal...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
AmLaw Daily featured Weil business finance & restructuring partner Jacqueline Marcus as the 'Dealmaker of the Week' for the week ending October 15, citing Ms. Marcus's role in the $3.9 billion sale of hotel chain Extended Stay to a private equity consortium, effectively bringing the company out of bankruptcy.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts has honored Gil Menna with the NAREIT Industry Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to the REIT industry. The award was presented in New York City at this year's annual REITWorld 2010 Conference, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the legislation establishing real estate investment...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Phillips Lytle LLP has been included in Chambers USA 2010: America's Leading Lawyers for Business for outstanding expertise in Environmental Law. Considered the most widely used legal directory by in-house counsel for retaining outside counsel, Chambers is released annually by U.K. publisher Chambers and Partners, and is based on extensive independent...
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A. is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a Tier 1 law firm as part ofthe 2010 Best LawFirms rankingsby U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers. A snapshot of the rankings is featured in the October 2010 print edition of U.S. News & World Report.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation has awarded Haynes and Boone, LLP a 100 percent rating in its 2011 Corporate Equality Index measuring private companies' policies and treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees.
Haynes and Boone has received a 100 percent rating for three consecutive years.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable recently filed a legal challenge to the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) final rules requiring a corporation to include in its proxy materials director nominees put forward by a shareholder (or group of shareholders) who have owned three percent or more of company stock for at least three years...
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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
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."
