5 January 2012 Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP today announced the launch of an English law practice in its London office with the arrival of Simon Witty, one of London’s premier lawyers. The addition of English law capabilities to the firm’s long-established U.S. law practice in London is a strategically important step. It enhances Davis […]

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BALTIMORE, MD January 5, 2012 Twenty-eight Ober|Kaler attorneys have been selected for the 2012 edition of Maryland Super Lawyers. The selections span twelvecategories, with Ober|Kaler lawyers making an especially strong showing in the Construction Litigation and Health Care categories. The following lawyers appear: Raymond Daniel Burke, Construction Litigation Patrick K. Cameron, Banking David L. Cole,

January 5, 2012 DENVER – Denver Health and Hospital Authority, doing business as Denver Heath Medical Center, will pay the United States and the State of Colorado $6,300,000 to settle allegations that it overbilled Medicare and Medicaid by misclassifying patients for hospital admissions. Both federal and state funds are involved. Medicare is the federal system

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WASHINGTON, DC – January 3, 2012 Ober|Kaler announced today that Alan J. Arvillehas been elected a principal of the firm, effective January 1, 2012. Mr. Arville is resident in Ober|Kaler’s Washington, DC, office as a member of the firm’s HealthLaw Group. He focuses his practice on transactional and regulatory issues for the health care industry,

4 January 2012 – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD LIPSKY, a lobbyist, pled guilty today to two counts of bribing former New York State Senator Carl Kruger. LIPSKY pled guilty before U.S. District JudgeJed S. Rakoff.

Jan 4 2012 – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Charles R. Pine, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (“IRS-CID”), announced the indictmenttoday of three Swiss bankers, MICHAEL BERLINKA, URS FREI, and ROGER KELLER, for conspiring

Philadelphia, PA – January 3, 2012 – Pepper Hamilton LLP announced that four associates have been elected to the partnership and three have been elected of counsel, effective January 1, 2012. All were promoted from within the firm. Those elected as partners are: Joy A. Barrist – Wilmington, Financial Services N. Nicole Endejann – Pittsburgh,

Firm’s Newest PromotionsSpan Diverse Practices, Offices For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos, 201-493-1027,jamie@newspros.com (January 4, 2012) – Reed Smith LLP today announced the promotionof 22 of its lawyers to the partnership, effective January 1, 2012. Sixteen of the new partners are based in the United States, five in thefirm’s offices in Europe, and one