At its October 2014 Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., AIPLA installed Nancy J. Mertzel as a member of its Board of Directors. Mertzel is an intellectual property partner at Schoeman Updike Kaufman & Stern LLP, a New York based law firm. After being recommended by the nominating committee, she was elected by the membership to ...
Intellectual Property, trademark and patent attorneys Jorge Espinosa and William R. Trueba, Jr., founding members with the law firm of Espinosa | Trueba P.L., have been honored as Top Lawyers in South Florida in the 2015 South Florida Legal Guide, an annual publication listing the top lawyers and law firms in South Florida, both in ...
As chief legal officer for The Krystal Co., with 360 quick-serve restaurants, Sloane Perras oversees legal issues that range from franchise, IP, M&A, employment and vendor management.Click here to read full article.
Rose Hager a Shareholder and Director at Aaron & Gianna, PLC was elected to the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce at its Annual Meeting held at the Hyatt-Regency Hotel in New Orleans on December 17, 2014. Rose has been a practicing attorney since 1999 and is licensed in both Louisiana ...
IN THIS ISSUE… Register for the Business Meeting Letter from the Editors Note from the CEO NAMWOLF 2014 Annual Meeting and Law Firm Expo Recap NAMWOLF Annual Meeting:A First-Time Attendee’s Perspective Corporate Spotlight:Exelon Member Firm Spotlight:Toro, Colon, Mullet, Rivera & Sifre, PS Vendor Spotlight:Connex Intl. Happy Holidays:Keeping Out of Legal Trouble During the Busiest Season ...
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Preferred Counsel lists came into widespread use in the 1990s, when minorities and women were markedly underrepresented in the legal profession. Then, as now, Preferred Counsel lists allowed companies to obtain more favorable terms with outside counsel by forming consolidated networks. In recent years, corporate law departments started using national contracts for certain types of ...
SAN ANTONIO, TX – November 26, 2014 – Schmoyer Reinhard LLP is pleased to announce Jane Ann Fosson has joined the firm as an associate. “We are excited to have Jane Ann join the firm and begin her legal career at Schmoyer Reinhard, “said Christine E. Reinhard, partner at the firm. Ms. Fosson’s practice will ...
Jerry Hamilton of Hamilton, Miller & Birthisel, LLP was named Attorney of the Month by the Attorney at Law Magazine. “I like to consider myself my clients’ insurer,” says Jerry Hamilton in his easygoing, distinctive Jamaican accent. “Many of my clients, large and small, are concerned about litigation and rightly so – the fees, the costs, ...
Jerry Gonzalez of Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP was featured in “Paradigm Shifts: Jerry Gonzalez Fosters Relationships Between Corporations and Minority- And Women-Owned Firms”, published in the 2014 Wisconsin Super Lawyers Magazine. Gonzalez and Harlan noticed many self-identified, minority-owned firms going out of business. “It troubled us,” Gonzalez says. “Part of the problem was ...