The government is investigating the health insurance company Humana over a mailer it recently sent out regarding health care reform. In the mailer, the company included some dubious claims that appear to designed to frighten the reader. More specifically, the mailer includes claims that the government wants to cut benefits to seniors [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
Cravath, which in March deferred its 150-member incoming associate class to October or November 2009 or January 2010, has some more deferring to do. First: the 2009 class is being offered a voluntary deferral option. Anyone willing to defer to Fall 2010 will get an $80,000 stipend, health care, $1,000 a month in student loan repayment, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, April 19, 2009
Washington DC’s Howrey has laid off 25 secretarial staffers. Cuts came in all offices except Palo Alto and New York. Those affected are getting severance packages, health care assistance and outplacement. In addition, Howrey is demanding that non-equity partners contribute capital; and all partners, equity and non-equity, will be able to contribute voluntary capital, and some have [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 6, 2009
Indianapolis-based Barnes & Thornburg has opened its eighth office, in Atlanta, Georgia. Stuart C. Johnson and Jason A. Bernstein, previously partners in the Atlanta office of Bryan Cave, will join the firm to open the Atlanta office. The firm will recruit lateral attorneys in all practice areas, with the intention of building a full-service office in Atlanta. The [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 20, 2009
A lawyer facing criminal charges for advising 10 nurses they could quit their jobs at a Long Island, NY nursing facility gave “objectively reasonable” advice and cannot be prosecuted, a Brooklyn appeals panel has ruled. In a unanimous decision, the Appellate Division, 2nd Department, ruled that District Attorney Thomas J. Spota of Suffolk County must halt [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 4, 2009
Via Fulton County Daily Report, the story of a lawyer who has gone to work for the company she says saved her daughter’s life: Her education, work experience and life uniquely prepared Leslie R. Jones for the job she took in October as senior vice president and general counsel of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, a network [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 11, 2008
Law firm Holland & Knight LLP is buying the assets of lobbying firm MARC Associates and adding the company’s lobbyists to its payroll. Effective January 1st, the 11 lobbyists will join Holland & Knight’s health care and local government policy specialties. “We’ve been looking to grow our health care practice for the last five years,” said Holland [...]
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