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LEI member firm, Morse Barnes Brown Pemberton in Boston, USA has announced two new appointments:  Matthew L. Mitchell has joined the firm as a Member and now chairs the firm`s Employment Law Group.  Amanda E. Thibodeau has joined the firm as an Associate; she specialises in employment law litigation.   Read More

Anne Dickerson, of counsel in Gould & Ratner's Estate Planning Practice, presented in conjunction with the investor advisor and financial planner from the McMullan Team at William Blair. With about 40 people in attendance, the William Blair advisors started the program with an overview of the need to coordinate investment planning with a client’s estate plans. Anne then spoke giving Read More

Fred Tannenbaum, a partner in Gould & Ratner's Corporate Practice, will lead a panel discussion at the 2019 America-Israel Chamber of Commerce Spring Innovation Spotlight, with the industry of medical cannabis being highlighted. The event will take place on Monday, April 29, 2019 and will cover a variety of aspects of the business such as investing, legal and compliance matters, Read More

Dundee’s two-time Olympian Eilish McColgan was in her home city of Dundee on Wednesday night to address local businesses at the Apex Hotel. Eilish, a silver medallist at last year’s European Championships in Berlin, is fresh off competing at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow. Wednesday’s event was held by RSB Lindsays. Lindsays is a Scottish firm of experienced lawyers Read More

This article featured in The Herald on Wednesday 06 March. When Alasdair Cummings took over as Managing Partner of Lindsays in 2011 he had one main priority: to see the firm through the post-recessionary storm. Looking back on how he sold that vision to the firm’s partners, whose backing he required to take on the top job, he said: “Being absolutely blunt, in the Read More

On Wednesday 27th March, Hewitsons proudly presented a cheque to the value of £71,156 to Cambridgeshire Community Foundation, representing the amount of money raised through the annual Chariots of Fire relay race in 2018. This, charity, based in Cambridge, was seeking to raise funds for their Cambridgeshire High Sheriff’s Awards which support local young people who face disadvantage. Over the Read More

Hewitsons held an inaugural Restructuring Forum on 26th March at the Grange St Paul’s Hotel in London. Hosted by Christopher Mackie, head of Corporate Recovery & Insolvency, the seminar featured four specialist speakers. Hewitsons partner Dominic Hopkins addressed some of the key developments impacting the insolvency law landscape and also spoke about Brexit. Other speakers included James Couser, Barrister from Read More

March 18, 2019 (San Diego) – Procopio Partner Enrique Hernández-Pulido has been elected by the partnership to join the firm’s Management Committee. He has already assumed his new role, and takes over the position formerly held by Partner Craig P. Sapin. “Enrique has demonstrated consistent leadership and commitment to the firm during his nearly sixteen years as a valued attorney with Procopio,” said Read More

March 22, 2019 (San Diego) – Twenty-six Procopio attorneys with a wide array of legal practices were named by their peers today as 2019 San Diego Super Lawyers or Rising Stars. Each year, no more than 5% of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team to be named a Super Lawyer, and only 2.5% of the Read More

Along with other exciting news, including being ranked by Canadian Business magazine amongst Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies for a second consecutive year and being named by Canadian Lawyer Magazine as one of the Top 10 Ontario Regional Law Firms, Loopstra Nixon is excited to be participating for the first time in the Asia Pacific Regional Meeting. Althea Yip and Cindy Yi, Read More