Lusk CHARLESTON -— The law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle has announced that member Neva G. Lusk served as teaching faculty for the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) Trial Academy held at Stanford University Law School this summer.
MORGANTOWN – The father and friend of a former West Virginia University student left in a coma after a 2009 beating filed a lawsuit against the six individuals allegedly involved in the attack.
Anderson CHARLESTON -— The law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle has announced that R. Christopher Anderson has joined the firm's Charleston office as Counsel.
Bresch WHEELING – West Virginia University's board of governors convinced U.S. District Judge Frederick Stamp to start wrapping secrecy around a degree the school awarded to Heather Bresch, daughter of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin.
Roma HUNTINGTON -- Huddleston Bolen has announced that Jason Roma, an attorney in the firm's Huntington office, was named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine.
WHEELING -- Former leaders of West Virginia University's business school advised U.S. District Judge Frederick Stamp that they received a misconduct report more than two years before they sued the school, but they told Stamp the timing doesn't matter.
Thacker RICHMOND, Va. -- A college professor who keeps an eye on the federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals says the woman who will be nominated for an opening on that court fits the bill of a good candidate.
HUNTINGTON -– The Cline Family Foundation has announced a gift of $5 million to Marshall University to establish an endowment to support new faculty and scientists in the university's planned sports medicine translational research center.
WASHINGTON – West Virginia mother Jennifer Workman plans to seek relief at the U.S. Supreme Court from state law requiring immunization of her daughter.
Bresch MORGANTOWN - Former West Virginia University provost Gerald Lang and the Board of Governors settled a suit that delayed for two years the school's investigation of a master's degree it awarded to Heather Bresch, daughter of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin.
Turner BRIDGEPORT -- Steptoe & Johnson is pleased to welcome James Turner, Member, Robert Edward "Booter" Ryan, Of Counsel, and Jessica Wiley, Associate, to its Charleston and Huntington offices.
Rodriguez BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Law professor Derek Bambauer knew he found the perfect teaching tool in former West Virginia University head football coach Rich Rodriguez's contract dispute.
MORGANTOWN -- State Supreme Court Justice Robin Davis has made current and aspiring officeholders of her own Democratic Party -- and a few Republicans -- breathe a little easier.
CHARLESTON – With less than a year before the primaries and a few announced candidates, the 2012 race for the state Supreme Court is starting to take shape.
McConnell MORGANTOWN -- Joyce McConnell calls herself "an impatient dean," not out of frustration, but from her desire to create a national reputation for West Virginia University's College of Law as a center for policy research and practice in energy and sustainable resource development.
CHARLESTON -- At a press conference June 14 in the lower Rotunda in the WV State Capitol, re-enactors portraying the Civil War-era West Virginians Granville Hall and J.R. Clifford helped announce a fall 2011 Charleston performance of the West Virginia statehood "Living History" dramatic program "A New Home for Liberty."