Recent News About Switzer
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MORGANTOWN – West Virginia University College of Law annual study abroad program aims to enrich the perspectives of law students entering the legal realm in energy and sustainability issues, among others.
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LOGAN – A Switzer woman is suing Little General Store after she claims her employment was wrongfully terminated.
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In 2011, the United Nations established the first set of global standards for preventing businesses from violating human rights by adopted the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Now, four years later, a new book has emerged courtesy of a WVU College of Law conference in Sept. 2013.
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CHARLESTON -- Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin joined Cabinet Secretary Keith Burdette, the West Virginia Development Office and the West Virginia Export Council to present the Governor's Commendation for International Market Entry to representatives of 37 West Virginia business exporters, celebrating top small and medium businesses in the Mountain State.
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State Supreme Court Justice Robin Jean Davis (Photo courtesy of Michael Switzer for the state Supreme Court) CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court has created a Business Court that begins in October.
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CHARLESTON -- On April 11, 35 lawyers were admitted to practice law in the State of West Virginia during a ceremony before the Supreme Court of Appeals.
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Justice Robin Jean Davis speaks during the first of 14 regional truancy meetings Sept. 13 at the old Kanawha County Courthouse. (Photos by Michael Switzer courtesy of the state Supreme Court) CHARLESTON -- Supreme Court Justice Robin Jean Davis and Nineteenth Circuit Judge Alan Moats have started the 14 regional meetings on truancy.
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State Supreme Court Justice Margaret Workman poses with nine-year-old Savannah Emch after a Nov. 19 press conference about National Adoption Month. Savannah was adopted two years ago, and Workman has an adopted son. (Photos by Michael Switzer for the state Supreme Court) CHARLESTON -– Nine-year-old Savannah Emch said it more eloquently than all the adults who preceded her could. "Now I'm happy," she said. "I have a home."
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CHARLESTON -– Two anonymous Logan County men and an unidentified woman claim the woman was raped by three intoxicated Logan County sheriff's deputies and a Chapmanville police officer after leaving a Logan bar.
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Chief Justice Brent Benjamin CHARLESTON – Brent Benjamin, on his first day as Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, presided over a new kind of ceremony that promised a new kind of Court.
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Typically, law firm retreats are reserved for attorneys and a few higher ranking members of management. But in some larger firms in even larger markets, non-legal administrators are sent away to plan for the year ahead.
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HUNTINGTON – Though New Haven, W. Va., might not be found on many maps of the world, a lawsuit in federal district court says the Big Bend-area hamlet factors prominently into an international racketeering conspiracy.
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CHARLESTON -- Gerald Riskin, a legal consultant with Edge International, believes branding is a license to burn money.
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