Monthly Archives: October 2010

Kanawha candidates bicker to the wire

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Greear

CHARLESTON -– With less than a week before Election Day, the campaigns for the two candidates for Kanawha Circuit Judge still were bickering.
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Kanawha County, News

Federal judge freezes Massey suit against regulators

WASHINGTON – A federal judge has frozen all action in Massey Energy’s suit seeking relief from federal mine regulators. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon stayed proceedings on Oct. 27, though neither Massey subsidiary Elk Run Coal nor the Mine Safety … Read More »

Federal Court, News

Judge wrong about pardon letter, Justices rule

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Ketchum

CHARLESTON – Monongalia Circuit Judge Russell Clawges exceeded his authority when he ordered clerks of the Legislature to delete a letter about a pardon from their journals, the state Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled.
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News, State Supreme Court

PERSONNEL FILE: Cox named ‘Lawyer of the Year’

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Cox

CHARLESTON — The management team of the law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle has announced that T. Randolph Cox has been named the “Charleston, WV Best Lawyers Government Relations Lawyer of the Year” for 2011.
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News, Personnel File

PERSONNEL FILE: Tiffany Davis joins Jackson Kelly

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Davis

MORGANTOWN – Tiffany B. Davis recently joined Jackson Kelly as an associate in the Morgantown office.
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News, Personnel File

Business4Breakfast seminar series expanding to Ashland, Ky.

ASHLAND, Ky. — Huddleston Bolen and the Ashland Area Alliance have announced that they are partnering to expand the popular Business4Breakfast business seminar series to Ashland beginning in November. The first seminar will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 … Read More »

News

THEIR VIEW: State Supreme Court changes the rules

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MORGANTOWN — One of the beauties of the American court system is transparency. The vast majority of court proceedings are open to the public; court documents are a matter of public record; jurors are free to talk about their deliberations after the verdict is issued.
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Arguments, Their View

PERSONNEL FILE: Roles named ‘Lawyer of the Year’

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Roles

CHARLESTON — Forrest Roles, a partner in Dinsmore & Shohl’s Charleston office, was recently recognized as the “Lawyer of the Year” for Natural Resources Law in Charleston by The Best Lawyers in America 2011.
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News, Personnel File

Former casino PR director sues over firing

NEW CUMBERLAND — The former public relations director of Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort is suing after she claims she was fired from her 12-year job as the face of the casino because of her gender. The general manager, Jack … Read More »

News

PERSONNEL FILE: Three attorneys join Flaherty Sensabaugh Bonasso

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Estep

CHARLESTON — The law firm of Flaherty Sensabaugh Bonasso has added three new associates.
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News, Personnel File

PERSONNEL FILE: Three join Dinsmore & Shohl’s W.Va. offices

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Hicks

CHARLESTON — Dinsmore & Shohl has announced that Jennifer Hicks, Katherine MacCorkle Mullins and Bethany Swaton have joined the firm as associates. Both Hicks and Mullins will practice out of the firm’s Charleston office while Swaton joins the firm’s Wheeling office.
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News, Personnel File

Greenbrier plans countersuit against Aspen, GGD

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Justice

CHARLESTON – Greenbrier Resort owner Jim Justice said the lawsuits filed against the resort by Aspen Corp. for failing to pay $1.275 million for landscaping work prior to the Greenbrier Classic golf tournament were about sub-par workmanship.
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Greenbrier County, News

PERSONNEL FILE: Five new associates join Steptoe & Johnson

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Cook

CLARKSBURG — Steptoe & Johnson is pleased to welcome five new attorneys concentrating their practices in the areas of litigation, labor and employment, business, energy and environmental law.
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News, Personnel File

PERSONNEL FILE: Dinsmore & Shohl named 2011 ‘Go-To Law Firm’

CINCINNATI -– Dinsmore & Shohl has been named a Top 500 Go-To Law Firm for 2011 in four different areas based on Corporate Counsel surveys of general counsel at the nation’s leading companies. In a survey of the top 500 … Read More »

News, Personnel File

PERSONNEL FILE: Nine Jackson Kelly attorneys named Lawyers of the Year

CHARLESTON -– The 17th edition of The Best Lawyers in America, a peer-review publication in the legal profession (“Best Lawyers”), has named nine Jackson Kelly lawyers as Best Lawyers’ 2011 Lawyers of the Year. Notably, only a single lawyer in … Read More »

News, Personnel File