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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) – A dad’s effort to keep his former son-in-law from claiming attorneys fees from BP oil spill claims didn’t work out.
Holland & Knight in talks to merge with Dallas-based Thompson & Knight 12 April 2021 Deal with tentative summer closing date would be largest US merger since Covid-19 struck Dallas Shutterstock Am Law top 40 national US firm Holland & Knight is in merger talks with Dallas-based energy specialist Thompson & Knight in what would be the largest US merger since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. A deal would add Thompson & Knight’s 300 lawyers to Holland & Knight’s roster to create a firm with nearly 1,600 lawyers across 30 offices. The two firms issued a statement on Friday (9 April) w...
By Beth Shelburne www.wbrc.com Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Drayton Nabers, Jr. and former Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley have joined District Attorney Danny Carr’s call for a Jefferson County court to throw out the conviction of Toforest Johnson, an Alabama man facing the death penalty. Baxley and Nabers were two of several dozen former prosecutors, retired judges, religious leaders, defense attorneys and legal scholars who filed briefs Tuesday asking Circuit Judge Teresa Pulliam to overturn Johnson’s murder conviction and grant him a new trial. Johnson has always ma...
Afternoon Briefs: Dentons merges with another firm; dad can’t be banned from procreating, court rules Dentons will combine with Alabama law firm Dentons has announced that it will combine with Sirote & Permutt, an Alabama law firm with 86 lawyers and offices in five locations. The merger will be Dentons’ fifth combination through Project Golden Spike, a U.S. expansion effort that uses a dual-partnership model. The Alabama firm will be known as Dentons Sirote. Dentons expects to announce additional combinations in the coming months. (Thomson Reuters Legal, Law.com, Dentons press release...
1 Min Read Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, is ending 2020 just the way it spent much of the year: combining with another midsize U.S. law firm. The addition of 86-lawyer Sirote & Permutt in Alabama marked the fifth deal the firm has struck as part of an overarching goal to expand throughout the United States. The firm has continued executing that strategy despite the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought on its business model and the legal industry at large. To read the full story on Westlaw Today, click here: bit.ly/3pgDmmX