By Meghan Tribe | September 15, 2017
San Francisco-based Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani's march across the U.S. continued as the Am Law 200 firm announced plans to absorb five-lawyer Bogue Moylan + Marino in Providence, Rhode Island. The new office will be Gordon Rees' 46th nationwide and its eighth new opening of 2017.
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By Rebecca Cohen | September 15, 2017
Crystal Nix-Hines, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has returned to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan as a partner in Los Angeles. The former reporter for The New York Times has also moonlighted as a television show script writer.
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By Miriam Rozen | September 15, 2017
Look out, Wings of Justice. There's competition in Texas, and it's heavily armored.
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By Max Mitchell | September 15, 2017
Former Gibbons attorney Joseph Cincotta became president of the Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel this summer.
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By Roy Strom | September 15, 2017
Gary Stern is going to prison. But that's not the end of the story for the disgraced lawyer's former law firm, Chuhak & Tecson. The 70-lawyer Chicago shop is now facing a formidable opponent: A group of nearly 20 former NFL players who claim the firm helped Stern bilk them out of millions.
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By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | September 15, 2017
Charles Foster, chairman of Houston-based Foster, said the allegations are false.
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By Commentary by Scott Schlesinger | September 15, 2017
The elements that led to the catastrophe at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills this week should have come as no surprise—if only the people in charge thought to consider and plan for the consequences of a major South Florida hurricane, writes Scott Schlesinger.
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By larry E. Coben | September 15, 2017
Actor Will Smith, as Dr. Bennett Omalu, had the theatrical liberty to postulate that repetitive helmeted/head impacts on the football field caused Mike Webster, Justin Strzelczky, Andre Waters and Dave Duerson to take their lives; he charged that they took their lives after they became emotionally unstable because they suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). That theatrical assertion was first chronicled and scientifically postulated by Omalu in a published paper in 2010, when he introduced the notion that suicidality was a clinical feature of CTE.
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By Garrett D. Trego | September 15, 2017
Of the 1,343 current Superfund National Priority List (NPL) sites in the nation, over 15 percent are in New Jersey or Pennsylvania. One hundred and fourteen of the sites are in New Jersey, and 95 are in Pennsylvania, the first and third highest totals of any state. The NPL is intended to target and identify the most severe or complex contaminated sites in the country.
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By Meredith Hobbs | September 15, 2017
The team has departed for Atlanta boutique The Bowden Spratt Law Firm. Partner Nick Djuric moved to Bowden Spratt on Sept. 1, with senior partner Charlie Hurt joining as of counsel and associate Elizabeth Faist joining as counsel.
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