• April 13, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Small Pittsburgh Firm to Close Its Doors

    Grogan Graffam, a small firm based in Pittsburgh, is closing its doors after this week, its founding shareholder has confirmed. Founding shareholder Vincent J. Grogan said the firm wi

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  • United States v. Argueta-Rosales

    Publication Date: 2016-04-12
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    Date Filed: 2016-04-12
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Larry A. Burns, District Judge, Presiding Before: Raymond C. Fisher and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges, and Elizabeth E. Foote, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laura E. Duffy, United States Attorney, Bruce R. Castetter, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Appellate Section, Criminal Division, and Francis A. DiGiacco (argued), Assistant United States Attorney, San Diego, California, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Doug Keller, Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, California, for Defendant-Appellant.

    Case Number: Nos. 14-50384, 14-50385

    Cite as 16 C.D.O.S. 3871 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. OMAR ARGUETA

  • Coleman v. County of Suffolk, 12 CV 3509

    Publication Date: 2016-04-07
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Eastern District
    Judge: District Judge Denis Hurley
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiff by: Frederick K. Brewington, Esq., Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington, Hempstead, NY.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Defendants by: Brian C. Mitchell, Esq., Arlene S. Zwilling, Esq., Suffolk County Attorney's Office, Hauppauge, NY.

    Case Number: 12 CV 3509

    Cite as: Coleman v. County of Suffolk, 12 CV 3509, NYLJ 1202754218132, at *1 (EDNY, Decided March 31, 2016) CASENAME Phyllis Coleman, Individually and as the A

  • April 6, 2016 | The American Lawyer

    Bracewell Sees Departures in New York, Houston

    A month after the firm’s broker-dealer group packed its bags

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  • April 5, 2016 | The American Lawyer

    Latest Lateral Mystery Stars Bracewell Partner, White & Case

    Lateral partner moves in Big Law tend to be highly scripted affairs, with polished press releases, new headshots and a quick, careful scrubbing of online biographies hosted by the former

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  • April 1, 2016 | New York Law Journal

    On the Move

    • Wanda French-Brown joined Baker & Hostetler's intellectual property group as counsel focusing on patent infringement liti

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  • March 28, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

    V&E, Kirkland, Skadden Work on Deal Involving The Woodlands Company

    Vinson & Elkins represents Nexeo Solutions of The Woodlands in its pending acquisition by WL Ross Holding Corp. in a deal valued at $1.575 billion. Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden, Arps

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  • March 27, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Supreme Court to Review Impairment Rating Guidelines

    The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear a constitutional challenge to a Workers' Compensation Act provision that requires incorporation of the most recent edition of guidelines

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  • Saffold v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Adams Jr. and Monica N. Hamlett Public Defender's Office, Thomaston, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott L. Ballard, District Attorney, Fayetteville, Benjamin D. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, Thomaston, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Meghan H. Hill, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S15A1375

    The evidence supported the defendant's convictions for murder, arson, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, theft of a motor vehicle and bur

  • March 22, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

    The Top Lateral Hires of 2015

    La movement in 2015 showed there is strength in numbers, whether it be a group departure to another law firm, the formation of an entirely new firm or the combined effect a number of la

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