CHARLESTON -– The 2010 Annual Law Enforcement and Victim Assistance Awards presentation and reception were presented Oct. 6 at the University of Charleston Rotunda.
CHARLESTON -- The management team of the law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle has announced that seven associate attorneys passed the July 2010 West Virginia bar exam.
CHARLESTON -- U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers have listed Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as a top tier law firm in the following 24 practice areas and eight metropolitan areas in the inaugural 2010 Best Law Firms rankings.
CHARLESTON -- Spilman Thomas & Battle is the only West Virginia-headquartered law firm that ranked as a Best Law Firm at the national level. Spilman was ranked nationally for Employment Law – Management.
Barr WHEELING -- Melissa M. Barr, an associate in the West Virginia office of Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, was selected for inclusion as a "West Virginia Rising Star 2010" in the area of Civil Litigation Defense by Virginia Super Lawyers magazine.
PARKERSBURG –- A teaching moment for staff and students at West Virginia University's medical school is now one for their colleagues and friends at the law school following the med school's alleged failure to properly return the remains of a Wood County's woman to her family for burial.
HUNTINGTON – Marc Williams, managing partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough's West Virginia office, has been elected to the executive committee of The National Foundation for Judicial Excellence, a charitable foundation that provides training on civil justice issues to state court appellate judges from across the nation.
HUNTINGTON - Seventy-one Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough attorneys in 11 cities and more than 35 key practice areas have been selected for inclusion in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
CHARLESTON - Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC, one of the largest law firms in the region, recently announced attorney rankings in 2011 Super Lawyers.
Balliro BOSTON - Since the November 2009 creation of the federal Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, more than 1,215 criminal defendants have faced mortgage fraud charges, and more are expected. As a result, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough's Juliane Balliro has launched an informative blog on mortgage fraud and other white collar crime subjects entitled "Loan Broker Criminal Defense" (www.loanbrokercriminaldefense.com).
Weitz Giants of asbestos litigation hold half the power in seven trust funds that paid $2.4 billion in claims in 2008, according to tables in a new Rand Corporation report.
Thompson CHARLESTON -- House Speaker Rick Thompson was unanimously selected Chair Elect of the Southern Legislative Conference by fellow lawmakers from 15 member states.
Although attorney Ron Motley of Motley Rice received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the the annual American Association for Justice (AAJ) convention earlier this month, we choose not to congratulate him. His gain, alas, is our loss.
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Law Business Research has recognized four Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP attorneys for their exceptional performances in product liability law in its publication, The International Who's Who of Liability Defence Lawyers 2010.
Temple MORGANTOWN -- John Temple's latest non-fiction thriller continues to garner national attention and was recently named the recipient of The American Society of Legal Writers Scribes 2010 Book Award.
Rhode Islander Jack McConnell and his wife have contributed $700,000 to Democrat candidates and liberal organizations over the last three decades. Three members of the U.S. Senate committee considering his nomination for a federal judgeship are beneficiaries of that largesse.