Recent Updates
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Bisnar Chase Makes Christmas Merry for Less Fortunate
Law Firm News 12/21/2007In spite of the busy holidays, the staff of personal injury law firm Bisnar Chase finds time to support two charity organizations in Orange County, Share Ourselves (SOS) and The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program. SOS helps families who ...
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Thompson Hine Grows Business Litigation Practice
Law Firm News 12/21/2007Russell Rogers has joined the Atlanta office of the law firm Thompson Hine LLP as a partner in the firm’s Business Litigation practice group. Prior to joining Thompson Hine, Mr. Rogers was a partner with McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. Mr. Rogers’ p...
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Pro-Life Law Firm Sues Oakland
Law Firm News 12/21/2007A pro-life law firm has filed suit against the city of Oakland for approving an expanded bubble zone that would keep abortion protesters and sidewalk counselors further away from abortion businesses. The Life Legal Defense Foundation filed suit on be...
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Chinese Law Firms Opening In The US
Law Firm News 12/21/2007For many years, U.S. law firms have been rushing into China, investing people and resources to help clients on the ground there. Now, a Chinese firm is mimicking their strategy -- opening a representative office in the United States. This year, Guang...
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Blackwell Sanders to Merge with Husch
Law Firm News 12/21/2007Two of Missouri’s biggest law firms have agreed to merge, creating a 630-lawyer powerhouse that will rank among the top 100 in the country in size and revenue. Partners at Kansas City-based Blackwell Sanders and St. Louis-based Husch & Eppenberge...
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Mayer Brown Merges with Hong Kongs JSM
Law Firm News 12/21/2007US-based international law firm Mayer Brown and Hong Kong’s Johnson, Stokes and Master are merging in a move that will create the world’s tenth-largest law firm by revenue. The rare trans-pacific merger reflects the increasingly global operations of ...
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Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love Being Sued
Law Firm News 12/12/2007An Oklahoma oil and gas company has filed a $16 million lawsuit against a Charleston law firm and two of its attorneys for legal malpractice and for breach of contract. Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love LLP and attorneys Charles B. Dollison and Ju...
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Mathys & Schneid File Charges over Infant Death
Law Firm News 12/12/2007LAW OFFICES OF MATHYS & SCHNEID today (Wednesday, December 12, 2007) filed a lawsuit (Case No. 2007 L 13860) against Jewel Food Stores, Johnson & Johnson, McNeil-PPC, Inc., Morton Grove Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and others for the death of a six ...
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Portland Firm Fires Partner for Alleged Theft
Law Firm News 12/12/2007A longtime partner in one of Maine's most prominent law firms has been fired for allegedly stealing money from clients and the firm. Portland-based Verrill Dana sent a letter of apology to clients of John Duncan and notified them that i...
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Law Firms Warm Up to Climate Issues
Law Firm News 12/10/2007Detroit-based Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone P.L.C. has created an inter-disciplinary practice group to address climate change and global warming issues for its business clients, becoming one of a growing number of local law firms that are doing...
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Linda Grant Williams joins Dreier LLP
Law Firm News 12/10/2007Dreier LLP announced today that Linda Grant Williams has joined the firm as a partner in the Corporate & Securities Department. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Grant was of counsel to Greenberg Traurig LLP in New York, and was previously a partner...
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Kirkland & Ellis Host Literacy Event in D.C. Office
Law Firm News 12/07/2007Last night at Kirkland & Ellis’ D.C. office, law firms engaged in a battle of who knows the most about nothing much in the first annual Lawyers for Literacy Trivia Night. The event, which raised funds for the children’s literacy program Everybody...