CLARKSBURG – Former Metso Paper safety director John Adams has dropped a claim that the company shouldn't have fired him for charging female escorts and other comforts on a company credit card.
CHARLESTON -– Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, declaring certain restrictions on the role of business corporations in elections.
CLARKSBURG – Doctors working for the U.S. government enjoy greater protection from malpractice suits than other doctors, a wrongful death plaintiff discovered.
Long MORGANTOWN -– Jason Long, a partner in the Morgantown office of Dinsmore & Shohl, was recently selected to Leadership West Virginia's Class of 2010.
McMillan CHARLESTON -- Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love named attorneys Stuart A. McMillan, Michael D. Lorensen and J. Stan Lee to the firm's Executive Committee at its annual partner meeting, according to Managing Partner Tom Heywood.
CHARLESTON -- Spilman Thomas & Battle recently announced the magazine Corporate Counsel has highlighted it as one of the "Go-To law firms" for 2010.
CHARLESTON -- Associated Builders & Contractors, WV Chapter (ABCWV) is pleased to announce the election of its 2010 Chairman of the Board, Ott Meale, of Morgantown.
MORGANTOWN -- Shenandoah Ridge, Walnut Woods and two individuals are suing Grand Central Building Limited Liability Company of Morgantown and its four owners after they claim they committed fraud and misrepresentation.
HUNTINGTON – Fifth Third Bank claims members of a Huntington church created fraudulent documents in an attempt to release them from a mortgage on which they owed more than $700,000.
MORGANTOWN -- Abuse and neglect cases take up at least a third of a typical circuit judge's time, so the Supreme Court's Court Improvement Program Board this semester is underwriting the first-ever class solely on civil abuse and neglect law at the West Virginia University College of Law in Morgantown.
CHARLESTON -- Twenty lawyers were admitted to practice law in the State of West Virginia during a ceremony before the Supreme Court of Appeals on Jan. 13.
Ringer MORGANTOWN –- As the 2010 session of the West Virginia Legislature gets underway, the West Virginia Law Institute is looking to introduce legislation that will reform sentencing in criminal cases.