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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 ...

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 ...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin against a major auto parts retailer, alleging that the Defendants violated Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act by denying a former employee a reasonable accommodation and terminating her employment.  The case went to ...

NAMWOLF is soliciting firm members to submit an application for the MEO Co-Chair position currently held by Linda Burwell. If you are interested in being a Co-Chair please click here for additional information.

Emilia Quesada (SMGQ Law) appointed as Co-Chair of the NAMWOLF Insurance PAC.Click here to read more

Registration for the NAMWOLF Business Meeting is now open. Please click here to register.

Building dollhouses was not something Stephanie Scharf expected to enjoy. She didn’t even want to do it, years ago, when her 11-year-old daughter — as 11-year-olds do — decided on a new hobby: assembling intricate miniature homes, complete with wallpaper, electricity and roofing tiles. These aren’t houses for dolls. They are mansions for shrunken aristocrats. ...