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Movers & Shakers
Freeborn & Peters LLP, a Chicago-based firm, has announced that three former Hogan Lovells attorneys have joined the firm's litigation practice, which will provide additional services focusing on insurance and reinsurance litigation, arbitration, and counseling. Leading the group is partner Joseph T. McCullough IV, who has more than 25 years' experience handling in excess of 100 arbitrations and court proceedings across the United States and internationally. Joining him in this move from Hogan Lovells are partner Robin C. Dusek and associate Kelly E. Slade.
The law firm of Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, L.L.P. has announced the addition of Will D. Davis, formerly of Heath, Davis & McCalla, P.C., to its Austin, TX, office. Davis served as General Counsel for the Texas Department of Insurance and as an Assistant Attorney General of Texas before founding the Heath, Davis & McCalla law firm, where he has represented insurance companies, insurance holding companies, and insurance trade associations since 1960. Davis is active in representing insurance company clients before the Texas Legislature, the Texas Department of Insurance, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, and other state insurance regulatory authorities on all matters pertaining to insurance, with particular emphasis upon insurance legislation, examination, investments, financial activities, acquisitions, mergers, reinsurance, and affiliate transactions under insurance holding company laws. He has also testified as an expert witness on insurance issues in numerous court and administrative proceedings.
Perkins Coie LLP has announced that three more attorneys have joined the firm's Insurance Coverage practice in the Washington, DC, office. Joining the group are partners Koorosh (KT) Talieh and Peter Tracey, as well as of counsel Linda Powell.
The addition of these attorneys from Howrey LLP comes on the heels of six other insurance coverage attorneys who joined Perkins Coie in April. That group included partners Les Brown and Tom McMahon in Los Angeles, partner Robert Jacobs and of counsel Dennis James in Washington, DC, and associates Fiona Chaney and James Bernald in Los Angeles.
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The Article 8 Opt In
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Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
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Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
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The Stranger to the Deed Rule
In 1987, a unanimous Court of Appeals reaffirmed the vitality of the "stranger to the deed" rule, which holds that if a grantor executes a deed to a grantee purporting to create an easement in a third party, the easement is invalid. Daniello v. Wagner, decided by the Second Department on November 29th, makes it clear that not all grantors (or their lawyers) have received the Court of Appeals' message, suggesting that the rule needs re-examination.