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Obama Signs Healthcare Bill; Lawsuits Forthcoming

Obama Signs Healthcare Bill; Lawsuits Forthcoming

President Barack Obama signed into law Tuesday morning the sweeping healthcare bill passed by Congress over the weekend. But rather than this being the endgame in the months-long healthcare debate,…

Pepe & Hazard Merging with McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter

Pepe & Hazard Merging with McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter

Founded in 1983, Hartford based Pepe & Hazard announced it will merge with McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, New Jersey’s third-largest law firm. The merger will create a firm with…

Former Merrill Lynch Director Joins Fulbright and Jaworski

Former Merrill Lynch Director Joins Fulbright and Jaworski

Glen Eichelberger, an attorney and former director at Merrill Lynch, has joined Fulbright and Jaworski’s trust and estates practice. Eichelberger formerly served as head of Merrill Lynch’s Family Office Services,…

Study: West Virginia Has Nation’s Worse Lawsuit Climate

Study: West Virginia Has Nation’s Worse Lawsuit Climate

A study conducted by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform rates West Virginia as having the nation’s worst lawsuit climate in the United States. It is followed in the…

Greenberg Traurig Will Return $3.2 Million in Improper Legal Fees

Greenberg Traurig Will Return $3.2 Million in Improper Legal Fees

Greenberg Traurig has agreed to pay back $3.2 million in legal fees to Calumet Park that former attorney and shareholder Mark J. McCombs is alleged to have improperly billed the Illinois village. The…

Dickstein Shapiro Hit With $250 Million Lawsuit

Dickstein Shapiro Hit With $250 Million Lawsuit

Dickstein Shapiro has been slapped with a $250-million malpractice lawsuit by Encyclopaedia Britannica for alleged mistakes made in its handling of technology patents. Dickstein Shapiro is being represented in the…

Health Care Bill Expected to Face Plenty of Legal Challenges

Health Care Bill Expected to Face Plenty of Legal Challenges

Opponents of the Congressional health care bill passed Sunday night made it known early legal challenges would be forthcoming. As reported in the Washington Post, the attorney general’s for Virginia,…

McLane Law Firm of Massachusetts Absorbs Colucci Norman

McLane Law Firm of Massachusetts Absorbs Colucci Norman

With offices in Manchester, Portsmouth, and Concord, New Hampshire and Woburn, Massachusetts, the McLane Law Firm announced Friday it’s absorbed the Colucci Norman Law Firm, of Beverly, Massachusetts. Corporate lawyers John…

Morning Roundup

Morning Roundup

Good morning! Today is Monday, March 22, and here’s a quick look back at Friday’s stories… Troutman Sanders opens a new office in Portland, Oregon… Former Millberg partners Melyvn Weiss,…

Squire Sanders Adds to Public Advocacy Group

Squire Sanders Adds to Public Advocacy Group

Squire Sanders Public Advocacy, the lobbying affiliate of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, has added Brian P. Woolfolk as a principal with SSPA and as of counsel of the firm. Woolfolk…