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This spring, Marc Mukasey, former co-chair of Greenberg Traurig’s white-collar defense and investigations practice, along with two other former firm shareholders, announced the official launch of their new boutique law firm, Mukasey Frenchman & Sklaroff...
It’s not every day that an established plaintiffs’ lawyer leaves his position as a shareholder at a top-rated plaintiffs’ firm to launch a boutique focused on appeals and public policy cases. Maybe that’s why David Senoff did it. Senoff...
Visitors come to Chattanooga, Tennessee for any number of reasons: to enjoy the view from Lookout Mountain, to see the largest freshwater aquarium in the world or to savor a whiskey tasting at a nearby distillery. Now, the laid-back southern city is becoming a...
When Alina Landver launched her Beverly Hills, California tort and business litigation practice in 2014, she was making a drastic change: from serving as the top in-house lawyer at a renowned fashion design house to becoming a tort and business litigation attorney...
In just a matter of weeks, COVID-19 changed the way much of the world works. But for Florida law firm Boyd & Jenerette , the shift to remote work options started well before the first trace of COVID showed up in the news. For this civil litigation defense...
Given the vast breadth of the legal profession and the competitive job market faced by recent law school graduates, it is often tough for new lawyers to choose a particular practice area early on in their careers. Nevertheless, this critical decision can potentially...
As Co-owner and Managing Partner of Stotler Hayes Group LLC , Kelly Hayes has a simple philosophy that speaks to the success her firm has achieved. “Our goal is to have all of our clients be as happy as our happiest client,” she explains. So, what...
Andrew Goodwyn and Holland Hendley haven’t taken the usual path to law firm success. Goodwyn majored in fashion merchandising, while Hendley studied music and business. Both dreamed of pursuing careers in entertainment and quickly realized that the most...
The veteran community has always been a part of Samantha Farish’s life. Her parents met while serving in the Navy aboard the USS Lexington, where her mother was one of the first enlisted women to be stationed as a crewmember on an aircraft carrier. Her grandfather...
“I was one of those weird kids who always wanted to be a lawyer,” Attorney Kathryn Burmeister says. And in high school, as she pored through literature like To Kill A Mockingbird and Letter From a Birmingham Jail, she began to understand why. “I...
Almost everyone believes in the law. But when a jury summons shows up in the mail, excuses often take precedence over beliefs. Not so for Steve Cohen. “I’m the only *** you’ll ever meet who never tried to get out of jury duty,” he said...
While many law school students envision their names on the door of a big law firm someday, Larry Pino saw law school as the key to opening a lot of other kinds of doors. “Once you pass the bar, you can hang up a shingle, you can go into a law firm and practice...
“I’m a people person,” Attorney Jessylin Polo Wiederhold says. “I always try to be a light in the lives of those whom I encounter—especially my clients. So, it’s no surprise that upon graduating law school, Polo Wiederhold...
“I went to law school to do public interest work,” attorney Dominic Donovan explains. And upon graduation he accepted a position as guardian ad litem counsel in Ohio. “I loved the work and it was great litigation experience—but the burnout...