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Jones Walker Adds Two Attorneys to Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group

joshua — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:53:35 +0000

Jones Walker is pleased to announce that Michael Anthony (“Tony”) Shaw and Mary Colleen B. Beers have joined the firm’s Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group.

Mr. Shaw joins as a special counsel in the firm’s Mobile office, and Ms. Beers joins as an associate in the firm’s Birmingham office.

Tony Shaw has vast experience in commercial litigation with an emphasis in construction litigation. He has represented developers, general contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers in lawsuits involving commercial and residential construction.

Mary Colleen Beers is a 2008 graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law, where she received her juris doctor degree. Ms. Beers has litigation experience in the areas of financial services, insurance defense, professional liability, products liability, and construction.

Founded in 1937, Jones Walker has grown over the past several decades in size and scope to become one of the largest law firms in the Gulf South. With over 300 attorneys in Alabama, Arizona, the District of Columbia, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas, the firm serves local, regional, national, and international business interests in a wide range of markets and industries.

Covington & Burling Picks Up Heavyweights from Rushton Stakely

Erik Even — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:27:32 +0000

Covington & Burling has hired two prominent attorneys away from Montgomery, Alabama’s Rushton, Stakely, Johnston & Garrett.

Robert Brock joins the Washington DC office of Covington & Burling as a partner in the litigation group. He will chair the product liability & mass tort practice group. Brock was with Rushton Stakely for 25 years. His practice focuses on trial work and civil litigation. His JD is from the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa.

F. Chadwick Morriss also joins as of counsel. He was also a Rushton Stakely lifer. He handles class action defense; insurance fraud; drug & medical device defense; professional liability; and personal injury defense. His JD is also from the University of Alabama School of Law.

Covington & Burling LLP is an international law firm with offices in Beijing, Brussels, London, New York, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, San Diego, and Washington, DC. It consistently ranks among the top 20 on The American Lawyer’s prestigious “A-List.”

UPDATE

Thanks to the JDJournal tipster who pointed out that “heavyweights” only has one “w.”

Seyfarth Shaw Hires for Atlanta Office

Erik Even — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:45:03 +0000

Seyfarth Shaw, which last week brought on a new team of corporate and technology partners from Alston & Bird, is expanding its Atlanta office with lawyers poached from Troutman Sanders.

Robert C. Stevens joins as a partner in Seyfarth Shaw’s Labor & Employment Department. He concentrates his practice on litigation and counseling matters involving employment discrimination, restrictive covenant, trade secret, and wage & hour issues. Stevens earned his JD magna cum laude from the University of Alabama, where he wrote for the Alabama Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

Benjamin D. Briggs also joins the labor group as partner. He focuses on a wide-variety of labor and employment matters arising under state and federal law. Briggs received JD with honors from Georgia State University, where he was a member of the Georgia State Law Review.

Seyfarth Shaw’s Labor & Employment Department consists of 350 employment attorneys nationally at all levels of experience.

Chicago’s Seyfarth Shaw LLP is a full-service law firm founded in 1945. It has nine offices in the US and one in Belgium.

Seyfarth Shaw Brings on Team from Alston & Bird

Erik Even — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:14:20 +0000

Chicago-based Seyfarth Shaw, which in May laid off 50 people and reduced salaries, has brought on a new team of corporate and technology partners from Alston & Bird.

Robert C. Reynolds, Jr. is an outsourcing lawyer who co-founded Alston & Bird’s energy infrastructure team. He received his JD from the Vanderbilt University Law School, where he was an editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif. He is admitted to practice law in Georgia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. He will work from both Atlanta and Seyfarth’s Washington DC office.

Shawn K. Baldwin, who joins in Atlanta, focuses on strategic corporate transactions. He got his JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is admitted to the Georgia Bar.

S. Joel Cartee, who also joins in Atlanta, handles complex global transactions and matters relayed to the Kyoto Protocol. He is a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Georgia. He received his JD from the University of Alabama School of Law. He is admitted to practice law in Georgia.

Chicago’s Seyfarth Shaw LLP is a full-service law firm founded in 1945. It has ten offices.

Law School to Allow Select Students to Apply Without LSATs

Erik Even — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:54:39 +0000

The University of Alabama School of Law will allow a select group of Honors College students to apply without providing results from the Law School Admissions Test.

The Tuscaloosa-based law school says it is “streamlining” the admissions process for the Alabama Honors College students.

To be eligible, the students must be Alabama residents and have an undergraduate GPA of at least 3.75.

Those Honors College students who want to be eligible for a scholarship will still have to provide an LSAT score.