WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- The law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle has announced that Stephanie U. Roberts has joined the Winston-Salem office as counsel.
McGraw CHARLESTON -- West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw announced on Wednesday that West Virginia and 48 other states and the District of Columbia have reached a $13.25 million settlement with satellite television provider DirecTV.
McGraw CHARLESTON -- West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw and 38 other state attorneys general filed settlements on Wednesday with The Dannon Company Inc. over its Activia yogurts and DanActive dairy drinks.
COLUMBIA, S.C. -– Three companies have named Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as a "2011 Go-To Law Firm for the Top 500 Companies" in litigation and intellectual property in surveys conducted by American Legal Media.
WHEELING -– U.S. Magistrate Judge James Seibert dropped a curtain of secrecy on a dispute over where to depose former CSX railroad workers alleging malpractice against a Texas law firm.
CHARLESTON -- North Carolina's business court has mandatory jurisdiction over certain types of cases: those involving a material issue related to the law of corporations, securities, antitrust law, state trademark, unfair competition, intellectual property as well as certain cases involving technology.
Cook WHEELING -– Former CSX railroad workers from North Carolina shouldn't have sued their former personal injury lawyers in West Virginia if they didn't feel like traveling to West Virginia, the former lawyers argue.
BLUEFIELD – Five pharmaceutical salespeople claim they lost out on the opportunity to earn more than $100,000 per year when they were terminated after refusing to honor their employer's alleged unethical requests.
Jackson HUNTINGTON -– The 75 victims of the 1970 Marshall University plane crash will be honored at the annual memorial service conducted by MU's Student Government Association at 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14 on the Huntington campus.
WHEELING - Thirteen North Carolina men alleging legal malpractice against Provost Umphrey of Beaumont, Texas, want U.S. Magistrate Judge James Seibert to move their depositions from Wheeling to locations near their homes.
Pratt CHARLESTON -- The Business Court Committee established by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals met by conference call Oct. 28 and passed a resolution setting its mission, comprehensive plan and vision.
Goodwin CHARLESTON – Plaintiff lawyers who couldn't keep up with U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin in national litigation over heart medicine Digitek couldn't convince him he made a mistake when he rejected a class action for economic losses.
BOSTON -- Lahive & Cockfield, a top-ranked Boston intellectual property law firm, is combining with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, a large East Coast law firm known nationally for its technology and science-related litigation.