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Morgan Law Group

According to Morgan Law Group 1 in 8 U.S. Households Could Owe Estate Tax in 2013

Newport Beach, CA – October 23, 2012 - LIMRA, the worldwide association of insurance and financial services companies, has just released a report that finds... more

Legal & Compliance, LLC
Attorney Laura Anthony to Speak at ClearTrust SEC Hot Topic Breakfast- Small Public Companies to Learn Impact of Dodd-Frank Act and JOBS Act

Attorney Laura Anthony to Speak at ClearTrust SEC Hot Topic Breakfast- Small Public Companies to Learn Impact of Dodd-Frank Act and JOBS Act

Leading securities attorney Laura Anthony to provide overview of JOBS Act opportunities West Palm Beach, FL – October 24, 2012 – ClearTrust, LLC, an independent, full-service... more

Evan Guthrie Law Firm
Evan Guthrie Law Firm Helps As Judge For Law School Moot Court Competition In Charleston SC

Evan Guthrie Law Firm Helps As Judge For Law School Moot Court Competition In Charleston SC

Evan Guthrie of the Evan Guthrie Law Firm in Charleston, South Carolina took part in the CSOL 2L Moot Court Competition in Charleston, SC on... more

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP

Gardere Expands Intellectual Property Practice With Addition of Sarah Paxson in Dallas

DALLAS - Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Sarah M. Paxson as a partner in the Firm’s Dallas office. Ms.... more

Jackson Walker L.L.P.

David Folsom Appointed to Federal Circuit Advisory Council

David Folsom, a partner at Jackson Walker and former Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, was recently appointed... more

Jackson Walker L.L.P.

Susan F. Koch Joins Jackson Walker

Jackson Walker is pleased to welcome new attorney Susan Koch. Ms. Koch joins the Health Care group in the Houston office. Ms. Koch has more than... more

Fish & Richardson

Texas Attorneys Launch New Resource for Corporate, Government Whistleblowers

Winning team in Texas’ largest Medicaid whistleblower settlement debuts new website DALLAS – A team of Texas attorneys with decades of courtroom experience has launched the... more

The Law Offices of Philip Lights, PC
Brooklyn Lawyer Philip Lights Opens New Office

Brooklyn Lawyer Philip Lights Opens New Office

Brooklyn, New York October 22, 2012 – Brooklyn immigration lawyer Philip Lights has opened up his second office in the popular Brooklyn Heights neighborhood at... more

Shackelford Melton & McKinley
Shackelford, Melton & McKinley Adds Noted Aviation Attorney in Dallas

Shackelford, Melton & McKinley Adds Noted Aviation Attorney in Dallas

DALLAS – The Dallas law firm of Shackelford, Melton & McKinley, LLP, is pleased to announce the addition of accomplished attorney David G. Mayer as... more

German Center for Research and Innovation
Animal Globalism: Zoos, Slaughterhouses, and the City in the 19th Century

Animal Globalism: Zoos, Slaughterhouses, and the City in the 19th Century

What characterizes a modern metropolis? Have you ever thought about the zoo or the slaughterhouse as a marker of global economics and culture in metropolitan... more

Netlaw Media Ltd
Netlaw Media Sells Out its 7th Major Law Event in Succession

Netlaw Media Sells Out its 7th Major Law Event in Succession

Leading UK legal media and event organisation Netlaw Media continues to break records within the UK legal sector following the announcement that the biennial ‘Strategic... more

Blackhurst Budd
Marketing Specialist Comes Home

Marketing Specialist Comes Home

Blackpool Solicitors Blackhurst Budd has become the first Fylde Coast based firm to appoint an in house Marketing Manager. Paul Coombes, from South Shore, has joined... more

Evan Guthrie Law Firm
Evan Guthrie Law Firm Participates Beach Sweep Cleanup In Charleston SC Area

Evan Guthrie Law Firm Participates Beach Sweep Cleanup In Charleston SC Area

Evan Guthrie of the Evan Guthrie Law Firm in Charleston, South Carolina took part in a Beach Sweep in Sullivan’s Island, SC on Saturday September... more

Peck Bloom, LLC
Chicago Litigation Attorney, Brandon Peck, Selected Director of the Young Lawyers Section of CBA

Chicago Litigation Attorney, Brandon Peck, Selected Director of the Young Lawyers Section of CBA

CHICAGO, IL -- Brandon Peck of Peck Bloom, LLC has recently been selected as a Director of the Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar... more

Hankinson LLP
Dallas Mediator, Appellate Lawyer Deborah Hankinson Earns 2013 Best Lawyers Honor

Dallas Mediator, Appellate Lawyer Deborah Hankinson Earns 2013 Best Lawyers Honor

DALLAS – Accomplished appellate attorney and mediator Deborah Hankinson of Dallas’ Hankinson LLP has been selected for inclusion in the 2013 edition of The Best... more

Evan Guthrie Law Firm
Evan Guthrie Law Firm Participates In Day Of Caring Event In Charleston SC

Evan Guthrie Law Firm Participates In Day Of Caring Event In Charleston SC

Evan Guthrie of the Evan Guthrie Law Firm in Charleston, South Carolina participated in the Day Of Caring event sponsored by the Trident United Way... more

The Zeitgeist Movement
‘Zeitgeist’ Filmmaker Peter Joseph on Israeli Actress Orly Wenerman’s Plea For Justice For Gaddafi Son

‘Zeitgeist’ Filmmaker Peter Joseph on Israeli Actress Orly Wenerman’s Plea For Justice For Gaddafi Son

TZM EXCLUSIVE: A TRAGEDY OF CIRCUMSTANCE | BY PETER JOSEPH Love Story The love story - A staple of our history and culture. As much as modern... more

Summit Legal Publishing
Ohio Court Rules 2013 Now Available From Summit Legal Publishing

Ohio Court Rules 2013 Now Available From Summit Legal Publishing

Ohio Court Rules 2013 is a two volume set consisting of Practice & Procedure and Government of Bench & Bar. Ohio Court Rules Practice &... more

Chamblee Ryan Kershaw & Anderson
Dallas Attorney Bill Chamblee Joins Claims and Litigation Management Alliance

Dallas Attorney Bill Chamblee Joins Claims and Litigation Management Alliance

DALLAS – Dallas trial lawyer Bill Chamblee has joined the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (CLM), a nonpartisan group that represents thousands of insurance companies,... more

Adelphi University

Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury to Deliver “Peace and Equality” on November 13

Ambassador of Bangladesh Anwarul Chowdhury, an expert on current critical issues including peace, sustainable development, and human rights, will speak at Adelphi University as part... more

Morgan Law Group

Orange County Trust Lawyer Darlynn Morgan Is Awarded Martindale-Hubbell AV® Rating

Newport Beach, CA, October 2, 2012 – Darlynn Morgan, founder of Morgan Law Group, an estate planning law firm in Newport Beach, Calif., recently received... more

PPSS Group
LONE WORKER SAFETY 2012 Is A Conference You Simply Cannot Afford To Miss

LONE WORKER SAFETY 2012 Is A Conference You Simply Cannot Afford To Miss

LONE WORKER SAFETY 2012 Conference & Exhibition, taking place on Tue, 27th November 2012 at the Olympia Conference Centre, is once again due exceed everyone’s... more

Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP
More Than Half Of Bilzin Sumberg Partners Ranked In Best Lawyers in America 2013

More Than Half Of Bilzin Sumberg Partners Ranked In Best Lawyers in America 2013

Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP is pleased to announce that more than half of the firm's partners were listed in the 2013 edition... more

bunk-alliance Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
Copyright: Continuation of sublicense upon termination of main license

Copyright: Continuation of sublicense upon termination of main license

If the owner of a main license sublicensed the relevant copyright exploitation right, which was granted to him in a license agreement entered into with... more

bunk-alliance Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
PL: Insolvency proceedings as means to maximize the chances of investors in ponzi schemes to recover their investment

PL: Insolvency proceedings as means to maximize the chances of investors in ponzi schemes to recover their investment

Recent events show that despite the rise of the Polish economy and the strengthening of capitalism, citizens are still susceptible to manipulations and fraud of... more

bunk-alliance Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
ESP: Current legal issues

ESP: Current legal issues

Recent legislative approvals: measures for budgetary stability and competitiveness. After several quarters of slow recovery, the Spanish economy became intensely vulnerable to deterioration in the euro... more

bunk-alliance Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
Germany: Surprising clauses on remuneration for entry into online business directories are invalid

Germany: Surprising clauses on remuneration for entry into online business directories are invalid

By judgment of the 26.07.2012 (Case No. VII ZR 262/11), the German Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) ruled: “If a service (here basic entry into a business... more

bunk-alliance Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
Germany: Change of Construction Product Act

Germany: Change of Construction Product Act

On the 12.07.2012, the German Government has brought the draft German Construction Product Act and further necessary amendments with regard to the EU regulation (305/2011)... more

bunk-alliance Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
ECJ: The cross-border transformation of a company must be treated like a domestic transformation

ECJ: The cross-border transformation of a company must be treated like a domestic transformation

By judgment of the 12.07.2012 (Case No. C-378/10), the European Court of Justice held that if a member state provides for the possibility of a... more

bunk-alliance Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
Copyright: Marketing of used licenses is permissible also through software downloads

Copyright: Marketing of used licenses is permissible also through software downloads

Software licenses that give the purchaser an unlimited right of use of the program that he downloaded from the internet, are to be treated like... more

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP

Gardere Welcomes Prominent Tax Attorney James Howard

HOUSTON – Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is pleased to announce the addition of James Howard, formerly of Locke Lord LLP, as a partner in the... more

Evan Guthrie Law Firm
Evan Guthrie Law Firm Helps With Pro Se Divorce Clinic In Charleston SC

Evan Guthrie Law Firm Helps With Pro Se Divorce Clinic In Charleston SC

Evan Guthrie of the Evan Guthrie Law Firm in Charleston, South Carolina helped with a Pro Se Divorce Clinic sponsored by the South Carolina Bar... more

Koontz & Associates
Sarasota, Florida Attorney & CPA Jo Ann Koontz Named Co-Chair of Bar Association Real Property Steering Committee

Sarasota, Florida Attorney & CPA Jo Ann Koontz Named Co-Chair of Bar Association Real Property Steering Committee

SARASOTA, FL – Attorney and Certified Public Accountant Jo Ann Koontz has been named co-chair of the Sarasota County Bar Association (SCBA) Real Property Steering... more

Hankinson LLP

Dallas’ Deborah Hankinson Named Among Top Appellate Attorneys in U.S.

DALLAS – Dallas appellate lawyer and mediator Deborah Hankinson of Hankinson LLP has been named one of the nation’s leading appellate attorneys in the 2013... more

Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano, LLP
Victor Pasternack and Matthew Funk Named to Executive Board of New York State Trial Lawyers Association

Victor Pasternack and Matthew Funk Named to Executive Board of New York State Trial Lawyers Association

We are proud to announce that our own Victor Pasternack and Matthew Funk have been named to the Executive Board of the New York State... more

Thompson & Knight LLP

Thompson & Knight Opens LA Office

The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce the opening of its newest office in Los Angeles, California. The Firm... more

Evan Guthrie Law Firm
Evan Guthrie Law Firm Makes Appearance On Radio Show In Charleston SC

Evan Guthrie Law Firm Makes Appearance On Radio Show In Charleston SC

Evan Guthrie of the Evan Guthrie Law Firm in Charleston, South Carolina made an appearance on the MOD Love Radio on Thursday August 23rd 2012... more

Rumberger Kirk & Caldwell
Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell’s Brian Baggot Appointed To Important Florida Supreme Court Committee

Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell’s Brian Baggot Appointed To Important Florida Supreme Court Committee

The Florida Supreme Court appointed Brian J. Baggot, a partner in the Tampa office of Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell, to the Court’s Committee on Standard... more

Aldous Law Firm
Dallas Attorney Charla Aldous Named One of Texas’ Top 100 Trial Lawyers

Dallas Attorney Charla Aldous Named One of Texas’ Top 100 Trial Lawyers

DALLAS – Noted Dallas litigator Charla Aldous has been invited to join The National Trial Lawyers, an invitation-only professional organization composed of the premier civil... more

Thompson & Knight LLP

Ten Thompson & Knight Attorneys Named “Lawyer of the Year”

The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce that ten Firm attorneys are being recognized as “Lawyer of the Year” in... more

Jackson Walker L.L.P.

Jackson Walker Congratulates Its 50 “Texas Super Lawyers”

Fifty Jackson Walker attorneys were selected as 2012 “Super Lawyers” by Thomson Reuters. The list will be published in the October issue of Texas Monthly... more

Thompson & Knight LLP

Thompson & Knight Expands Corporate, Real Estate, and Trial Practice Groups

The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce the addition of five associates in the Firm’s Dallas and Fort Worth offices. Dallas Steven... more

Thompson & Knight LLP

Thompson & Knight Expands IP Practice with Addition of Jennifer Sickler

The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce that Jennifer S. Sickler has joined the Firm as a Partner in the... more

The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson

Texas Super Lawyers Honors Four from Dallas’ The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson

Firm founder Frank L. Branson featured among Top 3 attorneys in Texas DALLAS – The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson in Dallas is proud to... more

visiongain
'Homeland Security to evade the heaviest US cuts, reaching $206.01bn in 2012' says visiongain report

'Homeland Security to evade the heaviest US cuts, reaching $206.01bn in 2012' says visiongain report

LONDON, UK. 19th July, 2012: Visiongain’s analysis indicates that the global Homeland Security market, in terms of government spending, will reach a value of $206.01bn... more

BoD, Books on Demand, Norderstedt (Autor: me)
The Catholic Church and the divorced and remarried

The Catholic Church and the divorced and remarried

A Bielefeld theologian opened an ecumenical view of the Orthodox Church and from there he opened prospects for a current controversial issue in the Catholic... more

Adelphi University

Big Screen Politics 2012: Political Film Classics at the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center

Adelphi University Performing Arts Center (AUPAC) and the Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development bring you this film series showcasing a variety of political-themed... more

Jackson Walker L.L.P.

Jackson Walker Congratulates Its Best Lawyers in America 2013

Seventy-two Jackson Walker attorneys were selected for inclusion in the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Since it was first published in 1983,... more

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP

Gardere Partner Shannon McClendon Appointed to State Appraiser Licensing Board

AUSTIN – Shannon K. McClendon, partner at Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, has been appointed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry to a second term on the... more

Evan Guthrie Law Firm
Evan Guthrie Law Firm Helps Students Get School Supplies At First Day Festival In Charleston SC

Evan Guthrie Law Firm Helps Students Get School Supplies At First Day Festival In Charleston SC

Evan Guthrie of the Evan Guthrie Law Firm in Charleston, South Carolina helped with the First Day Festival at the Liberty Square at the SC... more