Ketchum CHARLESTON – Monongalia Circuit Judge Russell Clawges exceeded his authority when he ordered clerks of the Legislature to delete a letter about a pardon from their journals, the state Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled.
Hicks CHARLESTON -- Dinsmore & Shohl has announced that Jennifer Hicks, Katherine MacCorkle Mullins and Bethany Swaton have joined the firm as associates. Both Hicks and Mullins will practice out of the firm's Charleston office while Swaton joins the firm's Wheeling office.
Cook CLARKSBURG -- Steptoe & Johnson is pleased to welcome five new attorneys concentrating their practices in the areas of litigation, labor and employment, business, energy and environmental law.
MORGANTOWN -- As director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, West Virginia University alumnus H. Marshall Jarrett helps coordinate the operations of the 94 U.S. attorneys and nearly 12,000 employees scattered around the country, helping manage a caseload that will reach some 90,000 felony and 80,000 civil cases this year.
CHARLESTON -- State Supreme Court Chief Justice Robin Jean Davis on Tuesday appointed Senior Status Judge Robert B. Stone of Monongalia County to immediately begin presiding in all cases in the Third Judicial Circuit.
Mooney CHARLESTON -– The law firm of Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC is pleased to announce that Nicholas P. Mooney II, a member in its Charleston office, was elected President of the Kanawha County Bar Association.
CHARLESTON -- It's no surprise that the newest leader of West Virginia's personal injury bar, Michael J. Romano, thinks our state's legal climate is fine as is. However, it was quite interesting to read Mr. Romano's recent guest column on what really hurts West Virginia's job prospects -- too many mountains!
PARKERSBURG –- A teaching moment for staff and students at West Virginia University's medical school is now one for their colleagues and friends at the law school following the med school's alleged failure to properly return the remains of a Wood County's woman to her family for burial.
Peyton NITRO -- Thomas H. Peyton, a member of The Peyton Law Firm, has been named one of the "Top 100 Trial Lawyers in West Virginia" by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Temple MORGANTOWN -- John Temple's latest non-fiction thriller continues to garner national attention and was recently named the recipient of The American Society of Legal Writers Scribes 2010 Book Award.
A story, "Recht rules for CSX in brain damage cases," that appeared in the June 7 print edition of The West Virginia Record, and that was posted on www.wvrecord.com on June 4, has been revised on the website in two respects.