CORAL GABLES, Florida – December 11, 2015 – Emilia A. Quesada, a partner with SMGQ Law, has been certified as a FINRA Arbitrator. FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, serves as an independent, not-for-profit organization authorized by Congress to protect America’s investors by ensuring that the securities industry operates fairly and honestly. FINRA is dedicated ...
CHICAGO – Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A. (QPWB) is proud to announce that it has established a Diversity Committee, which will be managed out of the firm’s Chicago Office. The purpose of the Diversity Committee is simple, to ensure that QPWB continues to embrace and build on the foundation of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ...
ATLANTA, Ga. — December 8, 2015 — KPPB LAW, the Atlanta-based law firm that helps business owners navigate transactional and litigation challenges throughout the lifecycle of business operations has recently welcomed Fairfax, Va.-based Pride Immigration Law PLLC (www.prideimmigration.com) into the KPPB LAW family. Pride Immigration’s attorneys and staff join KPPB LAW to help more businesses ...
The legal profession has been under tremendous pressure to emulate a workforce that is representative of today’s world. It was Albert Einstein who taught us, “You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.” Over the years, it seemed that the American legal profession ...
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas’ recent opinion in Johnson & Johnson v. Batiste1 is just another example of the import Texas higher courts place on a plaintiff’s obligation to rule out alternative causes of personal injuries allegedly caused by a product. Certainly in the context of implantable medical devices, Batiste ...
Partner Stephanie Scharf will moderate a special program sponsored by DirectWomen on November 17, 2015, in Chicago. DirectWomen is a national organization whose mission is to increase the number of qualified women attorneys on the boards of public companies. Ms. Scharf is a member of the Board of DirectWomen, which since its formation, has seen 22% ...
Beth Boggs, Victor Avellino and Edward Reilly successfully defended their client, Young Appliance in a lawsuit filed over a motor vehicle accident. The plaintiff was a passenger in a single vehicle crash. Plaintiff alleged that the driver was engaged in the business of the defendant at the time of the collision and that Young Appliance ...
The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act’) was signed into law by President Obama on April 5, 2012. The JOBS Act has key, substantial provisions that govern exempt and registered offerings, initial public offerings (“IPOs”) and issuer reporting requirements. The main purpose of the legislation is to enhance the capital raising of small ...
Detroit – October 23, 2015 – One of the country’s oldest minority-based firms, Lewis & Munday, P.C. has named Reginald G. Dozier its new President & CEO. The firm also named two new partners: Ronda Tate Truvillion and Ngozi E. Nwaesei. Ms. Truvillion and Ms. Nwaesei are members of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group and ...
Lim Ruger provided pro-bono representation to the National Association of Immigration Judges as amicus curiae in recently resolved federal court litigation involving the blanket recusal of a U.S. Immigration Judge based solely on her ethnicity. In 2014 the U.S. DOJ, which employs immigration judges, issued a blanket recusal order preventing Immigration Judge Afsaneh Tabaddor from ...