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New Delhi / Chennai, India - October 2022 :  We are pleased to welcome Ms. Sujatha Rangachari who recently joined the Chennai Office of Kochhar & Co. (“The Firm”) as a Senior Partner to expand its banking, project finance and real estate practice in the South India region. Ms. Rangachari  is a senior legal professional with extensive cross sectoral experience in banking, finance, i…

The Innsbruck corporate law firm Greiter Pegger Kofler & Partners celebrated its 125th anniversary on 6 October 2022 with over 300 guests from the worlds of business, education, politics and culture. The highlight was a presentation by former Austrian Federal Chancellor and President of the Constitutional Court, Brigitte Bierlein, on the topic "On the Path from Law to Politics". Birgit Streif,…

After being nominated in not one but two categories, in mid-October 2022 Greiter Pegger Kofler & Partners was awarded the Promoting-the-Best Award in the category "Women in Law: 21st Century Award - Law Firm" by the organisation Women-in-Law and the Association of Austrian Corporate Lawyers (VUJ). The award means that Greiter Pegger Kofler & Partners was held to be amongst Austria's top …

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL (KMK Law®) is pleased to announce that Mark J. Chumley will be expanding his labor and employment law practice to include mediation of cases, including sexual harassment, race, age, gender, religious and disability discrimination, wrongful discharge, FMLA and wage-hour claims, non-compete and trade secret matters, privacy, contract, and general civil matters. Mar…

Congratulations to members Greg Young and Brian White on their jury trial victory last week! The lawsuit involved claims of wrongful death of a 41-year old female from a saddle pulmonary embolism. Plaintiff alleged that the patient’s primary care physician failed to order appropriate testing to diagnosis and treat a deep vein thrombosis in the left lower extremity, which ultimately led to the embo…

As part of its ongoing commitment to diversity, Lewis Thomason, P.C., ALFA International's member firm in Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee, has established the Lewis Thomason Diversity Scholarship at the Belmont University College of Law. This is the third such scholarship the firm has established in recent years. “For the past several years, we have actively recruited minority law clerks in eac…

ALFA International's member firm in Austria, Greiter Pegger Kofler & Partners, has been nominated twice for this year’s “Promoting the Best” Women-in-Law Awards in the categories “Best Law Firm of the Year” and “21st Century Award – Law Firm”. Under the patronage of the Minister of Justice, Dr. Alma Zadić, the Women-in-Law awards recognize law firms and female lawyers who promote or success…

Survivors of Truck Driver Allege Improperly Loaded Cargo Spilled Out of Trailer and Crushed Driver. In Granting SJ, Court Ruled Plaintiff’s Case Over Reliant on Speculation. Johnson & Bell Shareholders, Gregory D. Conforti and David A. Warnick, secured summary judgment in a wrongful death case in DeKalb County. The plaintiff, the widow of a decedent truck driver, alleged that our client, a l…

Tiefenbacher advised the owner family of the Casco Group in all phases of the transaction with lawyers from both of its offices in Dresden and Heidelberg, led jointly by the two commercial and corporate lawyers Christian Bartaune (Dresden) and Dr. Peter Sebastian Schneider (Partner, Heidelberg), with the support of colleagues Henning Schneider (Partner, Dresden, General Commercial Law), Dr. Gero S…

Greiter Pegger Kofler & Partners is pleased to welcome reinforcement: our new female lawyers Andrea Pegger and Laura Neururer now support and expand our team, especially in the areas of corporate law, M&A, labour law and litigation. At the same time, with the arrival of the two, we have now achieved an almost balanced gender ratio at lawyer level. Out of a total of 13 lawyers, we now count…