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BALTIMORE, MD June 15, 2011 Ober|Kaler is pleased to announce that its Health Law Group was one of only five firms nominated by Chambers USA for the 2011 USA Award in Excellence for Healthcare Law. The Chambers USA Awards recognize outstanding firms on the basis of research carried out for Chambers USA and reflect a […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 14, 2011) – Morrison & Foerster partners received three 2011 Burton Awards for Legal Achievement for excellence in legal writing. The Burton Foundation, in association with the Library of Congress, annually honors writing achievement and legal scholarship, recognizing “partners in law firms…who use plain, clear and concise language and avoid archaic, stilted

11 June 2011 – Foley & Lardner LLP announced today its rankings in the 2011 Chambers USA Client’s Guide published by Chambers & Partners, publishers of internationally-recognized guides to law firms and lawyers. The firm has 27 practices and 67 attorneys ranked locally and nationally this year. Among its practices ranked nationally, the Government Contracts

Insurance Litigation and Real Estate practice groups receive recognition; Partners Peter H. Klee, John T. Brooks and Louis A. Mezzullo individually honored as leading attorneys SAN DIEGO (June 13, 2011) – Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP has received top honors in the 2011 edition of Chambers USA for its Insurance Litigation and Real Estate

Perkins Coie Named Among Top Firms in Chambers USA 2011 SEATTLE (June 10, 2011) — Perkins Coie proudly announces that once again it has been ranked by Chambers & Partners, publishers of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, as a top law firm in the United States. Perkins Coie was recognized in the annual

Adams and Reese is pleased to announce that litigation attorney Rob Dodson has joined the firm as Special Counsel, practicing in the Nashville office. Dodson was a former Partner at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings in Nashville. Practicing law since 1996, Dodson represents clients in commercial litigation, complex litigation, construction litigation, mass tort, oil and gas,

(Research Triangle Park, N.C. and San Francisco, Calif.) Global intellectual property leader Murgitroyd & Company has expanded its U.S. operations into the Bay Area with the opening of its West Coast office in San Francisco, California. The firm has hired 20-year industry veteran and California native Dylan Gittleman as its Senior Corporate Sales Manager to

Paralegals have had an increase in their salaries, according to a paralegal salary survey. The survey shows that paralegals received an increase over the 2010 year. The survey was conducted by ALM Legal Intelligence together with the International Paralegal Management Association (the IPMA) and showed that salary increases from from 65 per cent to 87

United States Attorney Southern District of New York JUNE 7, 2011 ELLEN DAVIS, JERIKA RICHARDSON, PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that real estate attorney CHEDDI GOBERDHAN was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to five years in prison for his role in a massive mortgage fraud

Washington, D.C., June 6, 2011 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Eric Lipkin, a longtime employee at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BMIS), with helping Bernard L. Madoff and his firm deceive and defraud investors and regulators about the massive Ponzi scheme. “Eric Lipkin helped create the detailed and entirely phony trading