Workman CHARLESTON – Richard Poore, who faced life in prison without mercy on a charge of murdering his three-month-old son, has won a new trial or full freedom.
CHARLESTON -- A Putnam County woman is suing Huntington Bancshares and and employee after she claims she was wrongfully terminated from her employment and discriminated against.
Kerr CHARLESTON -- The law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle has announced that Lisa M. Kerr joined the Charleston office as Counsel. Her primary area of practice is litigation with a focus on insurance and bad faith.
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.
MORGANTOWN -- Five business and industry leaders with strong ties to West Virginia will be inducted into the 2010 West Virginia Business Hall of Fame on Nov. 18 in a ceremony at the Morgantown Event Center, Waterfront Place Hotel.
Brewer BRIDGEPORT -- Best Lawyers has named nine Steptoe & Johnson attorneys as the 2011 "Lawyers of the Year" for their respective practice areas and the metro regions in which they serve.
CHARLESTON -- The law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle has announced it was honored as a 2011 Go-To Law Firm for the Top 500 Companies by ALM, a publisher of multiple regional and national magazines tailored to the legal community.
PARKERSBURG -– A Wood County hospital is suing its former insurance carrier for failing to defend them against an additional lawsuit stemming from a 2002 wrongful death suit.
CHARLESTON -- On Oct. 26, 135 lawyers were admitted to practice law in the State of West Virginia during a ceremony before the Supreme Court of Appeals.
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.
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.
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.