Haddad MARTINSBURG -- Martin & Seibert L.C. is pleased to announce that it has hired two new attorneys to join its Charleston and Martinsburg offices.
CHARLESTON -- Spilman Thomas & Battle, one of the largest law firms in the region, recently announced firm and attorney rankings in 2008 Chambers USA.
CHARLESTON -- The following lawyers were admitted to practice law in the State of West Virginia during a ceremony before the Supreme Court of Appeals on June 26.
Karlin CHARLESTON -– Morgantown attorney Allan N. Karlin was named president of the West Virginia Association for Justice at the organization's annual meeting recently in Charleston.
CLARKSBURG -- Steptoe & Johnson has been ranked number one in five practice categories in the annual Chambers USA guide America's Leading Lawyers for Business.
CHARLESTON -- I had the pleasure of speaking in January at the third graduation ceremony honoring participants in the Southern Regional Drug Court in Mercer County. I have often said that drug courts save lives, and one of the lives the Mercer County program has saved was the life of a young woman who also spoke that day. I would like to tell you her story.
Brown CHARLESTON - A Charleston attorney has resigned from a West Virginia University committee in wake of a recent scandal involving the school's president and a degree awarded to the governor's daughter.
Clark CHARLESTON -- Patrick E. Clark has joined the law firm of Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love as Special Counsel, and will be based in the firm's Charleston office.
CHARLESTON -- The following lawyers were admitted to practice law in the State of West Virginia during a ceremony before the Supreme Court of Appeals on May 20.
CHARLESTON –- State Supreme Court candidate Bob Bastress says phone and e-mail records from his West Virginia University College of Law office "refute any assertion that I have been using my law school office to campaign for a position on the Supreme Court."
Bastress MORGANTOWN – Bob Bastress has been using his West Virginia University College of Law e-mail account for state Supreme Court campaign business, according to records obtained by The West Virginia Record.
Starcher CHARLESTON -- West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Larry V. Starcher gave a presentation about J.R. Clifford, West Virginia's first African-American attorney and a civil rights pioneer, at the West Virginia All Black Schools Sports and Academic Hall of Fame on April 26 at the Charleston Civic Center.
Davis CHARLESTON -- Spilman Thomas & Battle is pleased to announce that K. Paul Davis, a member of the firm, has been selected and accepted as a West Virginia Bar Foundation Fellow for 2008.