Multiservice Law Firm Grows to a Combined Team of 122 Attorneys

  Effective Jan. 1, the attorneys and staff of Newcomb, Sabin, Schwartz and Landsverk LLP (Newcomb Sabin) have combined with Miller Nash LLP, a Pacific Northwest multiservice law firm, to form an expanded legal team. Jack Schwartz, Wayne Landsverk, Jeff Chicoine and Brian Thompson joined Miller Nash as partners, and Merril Keane comes to the firm as a third-year associate. Raminta Rudys will s... [ more ]

 Clyde & Co LLP has been recognised as the inaugural ‘Most innovative firm in Dubai' as nominated by members of the Dubai Corporate Counsel Group ("DCCG") at the annual IFLR Middle East Awards held on the 29th October 2008 at the prestigious Burj Al-Arab hotel in Dubai.

The annual IFLR awards select high-profile, high-value and innovative corporate and finance-related tra... [ more ]

  Three ELA members - CEO Stephen J. Hirschfeld, Illinois member Bruce R. Alper, and Kansas/Western Missouri member Rosalee M. McNamara - were recently elected Fellows of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.  They join 56 other distinguished labor and employment lawyers to comprise the Class of 2008. 

Membership in the College is by invitation only, and honors those lawyers wh... [ more ]

(SYRACUSE, NY) Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC (BS&K) is taking steps in environmental stewardship to promote waste reduction and other energy reduction practices throughout the Firm’s twelve offices.

Recently, BS&K became an active participant in the Law Office Climate Challenge, which is organized through the American Bar Association’s Sectio... [ more ]

Iowa ELA member Frank Harty was recently elected a Fellow of the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers by a unanimous vote of its board of directors.  The Academy was formed in 1962 to provide a forum for Iowa's top attorneys to exchange information and viewpoints on the many aspects of trial law, and to promote professionalism.  Membership in the Academy, which is by invitation only and limited to 2... [ more ]

Employment Law Alliance Law Firm Member in Italy Receives Recognition

We are pleased to announce that LABLAW has won the World Finance Award for Best Italian Industrial Relations and Labour Law Team 2008. World Finance is a leading financial magazine based in London. The panel of judges, which included editor Alexander Redcliffe and former BBC journali... [ more ]

Article Excerpt - Corporate UK

When considering the acquisition of a company based in a foreign jurisdiction, one of the key challenges facing the acquirer is to fully understand the local employment and labour laws and how they may affect the business to be acquired. Every country in the world has its own unique labour and employment laws and without good legal advice from the outset, an acquirer risks f... [ more ]

            The Lexington, KY law firm of Sturgill Turner Barker & Moloney, the Kentucky member of the Employment Law Alliance, was just selected as the number one Best Place to Work among Kentucky medium sized companies in the 2007 competition jointly sponsored by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky Chapter of the Society of Human Resource Man... [ more ]

Memphis, TN/January 9, 2007 -- Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC has been ranked among the top 10 labor and employment litigation firms in the country by Employment Law 360, a national news source for employment law and human resources professionals.

In a survey of more than 250 of the largest law firms in the U.S., Employment Law 360 researched the n... [ more ]

Yesterday, December 8, 2004, President Bush signed the $388.4 billion Omnibus Appropriations Act for FY 2005 (H.R. 4818). This Act contains provisions affecting the H-1B and L-1 nonimmigrant visa categories. The Act's provisions are intended to reform the H-1B and L-1 program and are the result of concerns over out-sourcing an... [ more ]