Recent News About Columbia University
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We must all encourage the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to fix its review process, giving companies a clear path to invest in critical energy infrastructure so West Virginians can continue delivering the resources necessary to responsibly power our nation.
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Bowles Rice is pleased to announce that attorney Christine Pill Fisher has joined the firm’s Morgantown, West Virginia office. She will focus her practice on business and corporate matters.
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MORGANTOWN – The West Virginia State Bar and Legal Aid awarded the 2016 Distinguished Pro Bono Service Award to Professor Marjorie McDiarmid in recognition of her staunched work as a public defender and her support of legal aid.
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Proctor HUNTINGTON – A Huntington attorney and Marshall University alumna was recently named founding director of the Simon Perry Center for Constitutional Democracy at Marshall.
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Gerrard The West Virginia University College of Law will host Professor Michael B. Gerrard, who will describe some of the legal challenges facing the coal industry in view of concerns over climate change on Monday, Nov. 1.
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MORGANTOWN -– Professor Carol Sanger, the Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at the Columbia Law School, will speak at the John W. Fisher II Lecture on Law and Medicine on the policy that several states now require that before a woman can consent to an abortion, she must first undergo an ultrasound examination and be offered the image of her fetus.
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CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Roundtable's leadership conference, Developing West Virginia's Future Leaders: A Look at the Four Generations at Work, will take place at the Waterfront Place Hotel in Morgantown on April 22-23.
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CLARKSBURG -- Edmund L.Wagoner III has joined the Litigation Department of Steptoe & Johnson and will practice in the firm's Clarksburg office.
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Bernstine CHARLESTON -- Another West Virginia University presidential candidate's failure to communicate his views on a First Amendment-related lawsuit at the institution where he was previously dean of the law school is cause for concern, says one of his former colleagues.
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NEW YORK CITY – Only in America could an 85 year old judge put himself in charge of a $200 billion lawsuit with 60 million plaintiffs.
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Gee MORGANTOWN -- E. Gordon Gee, the former West Virginia president and law dean who helped grow the University during his tenure, will deliver the Edward G. Donley Memorial Lecture next week at the College of Law.
