Recent Updates
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NY Law Firm Subpoenaed Over Questionable Hiring
Law Firm News 12/07/2007As legislative leaders seek to award New York's thoroughbred racing franchise that's due to expire Dec. 31, a state committee has subpoenaed a firm that recently won a no-bid contract with the New York Racing Association, which holds the current fran...
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Who Should Hold Katrina Fees?
Law Firm News 12/07/2007A law firm fighting over legal fees with a prominent trial attorney recently charged with bribery wants a judge to take control of millions of dollars in settlement money from a Hurricane Katrina insurance case. The motion filed Wednesday by the law ...
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New Online Law Firm Offers Affordable Services
Law Firm News 12/06/2007The name of Greenwich resident Patricia A. DeWitt's business says it all: lawyersforless.net. In such a litigious society where attorney fees can cost as much as $1,000 per-hour and many individuals and families are feeling strapped by the risi...
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Greenberg Traurig Grows Bankruptcy, Litigation Practice
Law Firm News 12/01/2007Greenberg Traurig, an international law firm with more than 1,750 attorneys in 28 offices throughout the United States and Europe, including Tampa, has added nationally recognized attorney Robert A. "Rob" Soriano as a shareholder to its business reor...
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Caplan Law Firm adds new OWI practice specialty
Law Firm News 12/01/2007Caplan Law Firm principal attorney Allan Caplan has announced that the firm is currently offering a new OWI practice specialty, defending residents of the state of Wisconsin who have been charged with OWI or Operating While Intoxicated. Wisconsin and...
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Law Firms Fail to Make the Grade in Diversity
Law Firm News 11/30/2007Ivan Wang is an attorney for McKool Smith law firm in Austin. He says he has never faced challenges as a minority and that his firm gives equal opportunities to all races. Yet, he is one of only two minority attorneys at the firm. McKool Smith receiv...
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Associate Attrition Rates are on the Upswing
Law Firm News 11/30/2007With associate attrition rates on the upswing and young lawyers unwilling to sacrifice personal time, law firms are being forced to rethink the classic high-workload, partner-track model for associates or watch as valuable talent slips away. Fi...
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Healy Law Firm Receives $20.2M Verdict
Law Firm News 11/21/2007A Cook County jury recently awarded a total of $20.2 million to three families, whose children were killed in a car accident with a Dean Foods tractor-trailer at an Indiana intersection in case number L016261. Martin Healy, Jr., Daniel Malone, and Da...
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Reed Smith Enhances Tax Legal Practice
Law Firm News 11/21/2007The US Law Firm Newswire - Reed Smith, one of the 15 largest law firms in the world, today announced the addition of Michael J. Wynne as a partner in the firm’s State Tax Practice in the Chicago office, effective November 19. “Michael’s arrival at Re...
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Skadden Beefs up Security with Endpoint
Law Firm News 11/21/2007Endpoint security has given one of the world's largest law firms the ironclad network security it needs to enforce its strict policies while also ensuring that the network and the computers connected to it are safe from attack. It wasn't always that ...
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Winston & Strawn Settles Claim with GE Rainmaker
Law Firm News 11/21/2007Winston & Strawn has settled on the eve of trial a lawsuit brought against it by a New York partner who claimed the firm broke a deal to exempt him from "decompression," a policy sharply reducing partners' pay after age 65, writes the New York La...
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Ringler Kearney Alvarez Announces New Partner
Law Firm News 11/18/2007Ringler Kearney Alvarez is pleased to announce that Paul G. Szumiak has joined the Firm as a partner, and Richard L. Rosett and C. Jerry Kutner have been announced as Of Counsel. Ringler Kearney Alvarez LLP specializes in high value, highly sophistic...