Category Archives: Member News
Ayres Carr & Sullivan Attorney Included in Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition
Ayres Carr & Sullivan, P.C. is pleased to announce that John R. Carr, III has been named in the 2010 edition of Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition.
John Carr, who focuses his practice on Bankruptcy Reorganization, Creditor’s Rights, Commercial Law, Corporation Law, Insurance Law, and Employee Benefit Law, will be included for his work in the [...]
Roe Cassidy Coates & Price Attorneys Successfully Defend Medical Malpractice Action
Roe Cassidy Coates & Price, P.A. (Greenville, SC) is pleased to report that attorneys V. Clark Price and Fred W. “Trey” Suggs III successfully defended a local hospital in a medical malpractice case arising out of an alleged fall at the hospital.
The Plaintiff asserted that the hospital’s nursing staff negligently weighed a severely weakened dialysis [...]
Ohio Supreme Court Declines to Disturb Summary Judgment Obtained by Norchi Forbes Attorney in University Campus Shooting Case
Norchi Forbes, LLC (Cleveland, OH) is pleased to announce that Kevin Norchi preserves on appeal a summary judgment in favor of his client, Case Western Reserve University, in a college campus shooting case, which occurred on the campus in May, 2003.
The shooter, a 63 year old former business graduate student, killed one MBA student, injured [...]
Dukes, Dukes, Keating & Faneca Open New Office
Dukes, Dukes, Keating & Faneca, P.A. (Gulfport, MS) is pleased to announce that it has recently opened another office in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. With this new location in the heart of the Pine Belt Region, in addition to its main office located on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in Gulfport, Mississippi, DDKF is uniquely positioned and well [...]
Joel W. Collins Receives Inaugural ABOTA Chapter Service Award
Collins & Lacy, P.C. (Columbia, SC) is pleased to announce that Joel W. Collins was awarded the 2010 Chapter Service Award by the South Carolina Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). The award was created this year by the Executive Committee of the South Carolina Chapter of ABOTA and will be named [...]
Top Honors for Christian & Small partner, Clark A. Cooper
Christian & Small, LLP (Birmingham, AL) that Clark A. Cooper has been invited to become a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and was reelected to serve a second term with the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates.
Cooper is one of ten Alabama lawyers inducted to the Fellowship for 2009. Cooper joins partners Thomas W. [...]
Boylan Brown Participating in Habitat for Humanity’s “Women Build”
Boylan, Brown, Code, Vigdor & Wilson, LLP (Rochester, NY) is helping to build a house with Flower City Habitat for Humanity as part of the “Women’s Build” program this spring. The fundraising for and construction of the house will be done predominantly by women. Boylan Brown has formed a team – the “Boylan Brown Community Builders” – [...]
Boylan Brown Adds New Partner to Its ESOP Practice
Boylan, Brown, Code, Vigdor & Wilson, LLP (Rochester, NY) is pleased to announce the addition of Mark Kossow as a partner in its ESOP department.
Since 1998, Mr. Kossow has practiced law in ERISA and tax related transactions. In the past few years he has represented corporations, selling shareholders and trustees in more than 50 ESOP [...]
Indianapolis Firm Price Waicukauski & Riley, LLC Files National Yasmin/Yaz Suits
Price Waicukauski & Riley, LLC (Indianapolis, IN) has filed suit against Bayer Healthcare Corporation for the birth control medications, Yasmin and Yaz. Women have claimed that they suffered strokes, heart attack, gall bladder removals or other serious health problems while taking the birth control pills Yasmin or Yaz.
Lawyer William Riley (explained, “Yasmin, which has been marketed [...]
Second Bayer ‘Bellwether’ Trial Results in Another Verdict for Plaintiffs: $1.5 Million Award to Rice Farmers Represented by Don Downing
Gray, Ritter & Graham, P.C. (St. Louise, MO) is pleased to announce that a St. Louis jury found Germany-based Bayer Cropscience AG and several of its affiliates negligent in the second of several “bellwether trials” scheduled for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, and awarded a total of $1.5 million to [...]
Smith Debnam’s Bettie Kelley Sousa President-Elect of National Board
Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers, L.L.P. (Raleigh, NC) is proud to announce that Bettie Kelley Sousa was elected President-Elect of the American Board of Certification (ABC) at its recent meeting in La Quinta, California.
Accredited by the American Bar Association, ABC administers the only nationwide certification of specialists in the legal fields of creditors’ [...]
Schneider, Smeltz, Ranney & LaFond P.L.L.
Schneider, Smeltz, Ranney & LaFond P.L.L. (Cleveland, OH) is proud to announce the addition of Thomas I. Hausman as Of Counsel.
Thomas I. Hausman has been a practicing attorney for over 30 years. He focuses on partnerships, estate planning, corporate tax, tax controversies, and general tax matters. He has represented many clients in connection with the [...]
Robinson Waters & O’Dorisio Adds Matthews and Staab as Shareholders
Robinson Waters & O’Dorisio, P.C. (Denver, CO) has added Kelly N. Matthews and Louise Betcher Staab as shareholders.
Matthews will continue to focus her practice in the areas of general corporate and commercial law with an emphasis on banking and credit finance transactions, venture capital and angel financing transactions and representation of privately held companies (for-profit [...]
Krass Monroe Announces New Partner James A. Wahl
Krass Monroe, P.A. (Minneapolis, MN) is pleased to announce that James A. Wahl has become a partner in the firm. According to firm President, Mark Moxness, “Jim has proven his ability to help clients solve critical business challenges. We are pleased to have Jim join the partner ranks at Krass Monroe.”
Wahl is the Co-Chair of [...]
Kohner, Mann & Kailas, S.C. Attorney to Again Judge Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest
Kohner, Mann & Kailas, S.C. (Milwaukee, WI) is pleased to announce that, for the third year in a row, Stephen D. R. Taylor has accepted an invitation to serve as a judge for the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest.
Conducted under the auspices of the Wisconsin Technology Council, the contest encourages the creation, start-up and early-development [...]
Brody Wilkinson Attorneys Named to 2010 Connecticut Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists
Brody Wilkinson PC (Southport, CT) is pleased to announce that Peter T. Mott, Ronald B. Noren, Thomas J. Walsh, Jr. and Douglas R. Brown were selected by their peers in 2010 as “Connecticut Super Lawyers.” In addition, Heather J. Lange was selected as a “Connecticut Rising Star.” All five attorneys are listed in the special [...]
Norchi Forbes Attorney Speaks at the Great Lakes Higher Education Law Symposium
Norchi Forbes, LLC (Cleveland, OH) is pleased to announce that Kevin Norchi, Founder and President of the firm, recently spoke at the Great Lakes Higher Education Law Symposium which was held at Case Western Reserve University.
The purpose of the Higher Education Law Symposium was to address issues confronted by colleges and universities in the Great [...]
Zizik Powers Attorneys Successfully Defend Petroleum Company and Secures Motion for Summary Judgment in a Gasoline Price-Fixing and Price-Gouging Case
Zizik, Powers, O’Connell, Spaulding & Lamontagne, P.C. (Westwood, MA) attorneys Brian O’Connell and Bill Fidurko successfully defended Drake Petroleum Company in a putative class action before the United States District Court of Massachusetts, and secured a summary judgment ruling in favor of their client, Drake Petroleum.
Drake Petroleum, which is one of the largest independent petroleum [...]
Seven Williams Montgomery Partners Named Illinois Super Lawyers for 2010
Williams Montgomery & John Ltd. (Chicago, IL) is proud to announce that five partners, including all three of the firm’s name partners, have been recognized as Super Lawyers by the publishers of Law & Politics. The lawyers who have been recognized in 2010 as Super Lawyers and their areas of practice are:
Lloyd E. Williams, [...]
Teague Campbell Attorneys Successfully Defend National Retail Store
Teague Campbell Dennis & Gorham, LLP (Raleigh, NC) attorneys Dayle A. Flammia and Edward S. Schenk III successfully defended a national retail store in a case arising from an alleged unlawful, racially-motivated detention of a suspected shoplifter.
Dayle A. Flammia and Edward S. Schenk III obtained Summary Judgment on all claims asserted in the Complaint, including Intentional [...]
Silvester & Daly Welcomes New Associate
Silvester & Daly (Hartford, CT) welcomes Tucker McWeeny as a new Associate at the firm. Tucker has joined the Trail and Litigation Practice and will handle the defense of claims alleging professional liability, product liability, liquor liability and premises liability matters, as well claims of housing discrimination under State and Federal law .
Mr. McWeeny graduated [...]
Rosen, Rosen & Hagood Attorney Elected to Serve as the Secretary of the South Carolina Bar Association
Rosen, Rosen & Hagood, LLC (Charleston, SC) is pleased to announce that Alice F. Paylor has been elected to serve as the Secretary of the South Carolina Bar Association. Her previous positions with the Bar include serving as a member of its Board of Governors and its House of Delegates of which she is currently [...]
How Will the HITECH Act Affect Your Law Firm?
By: N. Nedim Halicioglu
Neil, Dymott, Frank, McFall & Trexler APLC
San Diego, CA
Health information privacy changes that take effect February 17, 2010 will require business associates of healthcare providers, including law firms who represent health care professionals, to reevaluate how they handle medical records.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the [...]
May & Johnson Attorneys Obtained Dismissal from Federal Person Injury and Product Liability Cause of Action
May & Johnson, P.C. (Sioux Falls, SD) is pleased to announce that attorneys Mark Arndt & Eric DeNure, on behalf of Reno Hydraulic Rebuild, Inc., recently obtained a dismissal for their client from a federal personal injury/product liability cause of action. The Order of Dismissal was based on a Motion to Dismiss for Lack of [...]
Lewis Johs Attorney Named Special Counsel to the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators
Lewis Johs Avallone Aviles, LLP (New York, NY) is pleased to announce that attorney Bob Avallone has been named as Special Counsel to the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI), an association of professionals in law enforcement, fire, emergency services, military, forensic screening and other related fields formed for countering the criminal use [...]
Lewis Johs Attorney Edward G. Lukoski Successfully Defends Train Accident
Lewis Johs Avallone Aviles, LLP (New York, NY) Edward G. Lukoski, obtained a defendant’s verdict for the client, Long Island Rail Road, following a trial in Supreme Court, Queens County. The plaintiff, a fifty-year old epileptic, suffered a seizure and fell onto the train tracks between the running rails at the East New York station [...]
Donato Minx Brown Attorney Successful in Two Appellate Cases
Donato, Minx, Brown & Pool, P.C (Houston, TX) attorney Mark Youngjohn was recently successful in two appellate cases for the firm.
What happens when a party waits more than 450 days past post-final judgment before filing his motion for new trial? Generally we would assume the court would find no plenary power to consider the motion. [...]
Hugh D. Keating elected to be President-Elect of The Mississippi Bar
Dukes, Dukes, Keating & Faneca, P.A. (Gulfport, Mississippi) is very pleased to announce that Hugh Keating of Gulfport, Mississippi was just elected by his statewide peers as President-Elect of The Mississippi Bar. Hugh’s term as President-Elect will begin at the conclusion of the 2010 Annual Meeting this summer.
Hugh is a director and shareholder of DDKF, [...]
Joel W. Collins Receives ABOTA Foundation’s “Masters in Trial Award”
Collins & Lacy, P.C. (Columbia, SC) is pleased to announce that Joel W. Collins was awarded the 2009 “Masters in Trial Award” by the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) Foundation during their recent national board of directors meeting in Indian Wells, California.
The ABOTA Foundation was established in 1991 to provide education to the American [...]
Christian & Small Attorney, Richard F. Ogle, Invited to Fellows of the American Bar Foundation
Christian & Small LLP, (Birmingham, AL) announces Richard F. Ogle has been invited to become a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Ogle is one of ten Alabama lawyers inducted for 2009. Ogle is the fourth attorney from Christian & Small to be invited to become a Fellow. Ogle joins partners Thomas W. Christian, Clarence [...]
