Bendekovic MORGANTOWN – Steptoe & Johnson is pleased to announce that Michele L. Bendekovic is the firm's first Director of Recruiting and Professional Development.
CHARLESTON – Five weeks after Mingo County Commission members pleaded in federal court that former sheriff's sergeant Roy Glenn Messer shouldn't have sued them over losing his job, Messer agreed.
Ranson CHARLESTON – Citing differences with his clients in settling a sex discrimination suit with WVU Tech, a Charleston attorney is asking a federal judge to relieve him as counsel in the case.
CHARLESTON – A Charleston attorney says he is baffled as to why, despite making regular and timely payments, he's been named a co-defendant in a lawsuit alleging he "defaulted" on a nearly $500,000 loan.
CHARLESTON – State Court Administrator Steve Canterbury wants Kanawha Circuit Judge Lewis Bloom to reject a "friend of the court" brief from The West Virginia Record in a dispute over public access to electronic messages of judges.
WILLIAMSON -- Consol of Kentucky Inc. is seeking a removal to the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia after a Kentucky woman filed a wrongful death suit against it.
CLARKSBURG -- Steptoe & Johnson is pleased to announce that 25 of the firm's lawyers are included in the 2008 class of West Virginia Super Lawyers, with four lawyers included in "West Virginia Rising Stars," a special supplement produced by Law and Politics magazine.
Kusimo CHARLESTON – After being bounced between state and federal courts, a lawsuit filed by a former employee of the research division of West Virginia State University is slated for trial in the spring.
CHARLESTON -- Legal Assistants/Paralegals of Southern West Virginia (LAPSWV) held its Fourth Annual Seminar and Meeting on June 6 at the Cabell County Public Library in Huntington.
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 – West Virginia's Supreme Court of Appeals will stick by an April 17 decision allowing construction of 152 homes on Far Away Farm in Jefferson County.