President Barack Obama named five nominees for U.S. Attorney in Louisiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, and New York on January 20. Stephanie Finley was nominated for the Western District of Louisiana. She has been assistant U.S. attorney in the Western District since 1995. Donald Washington, the current U.S. attorney, stepped down this week to join Jones, Walker, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 30, 2009
Nelson Mullins, already the largest firm in South Carolina, is opening its 12th office this week in Huntington, West Virginia. Three prominent West Virgina litigators, Marc Williams, Robert Massie and Melissa Foster Bird, will be joining the firms as partners and kicking off the West Virginia office. Litigation represents a little over half [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is recruiting recent law school graduates for its Global Operations Center in Wheeling, West Virginia. The positions are entry level Career Attorneys in the Emerging Companies Group. In the beginning of March, Orrick laid off 100 associates and 200 staff. The San Francisco-based firm, founded in 1863, has over 1,100 lawyers worldwide in 21 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 27, 2009
The Pro Bono Project and Legal Aid of West Virginia has announced Free Legal Services Day on Saturday, March 21 for Morgan County residents. The Pro Bono Project helps coordinate private attorneys efforts to perform community-based work at no charge. The attorneys will talk with area residents about any legal problem and give them advice on [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court decided in favor of a law barring people convicted of domestic violence crimes from owning guns. In a 7-2 decision, the court said laws against battery do not need to specifically mention domestic violence to fall under the domestic violence gun ban. That ban was enacted in 1996. The case centered [...]
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