- Newsroom | 10.31.16WSHB is pleased to announce the opening of our newest regional office in Atlanta, Georgia. Richard E. Zelonka, Jr., a nationally regarded litigator with over a decade of trial experience, will take the lead at the Georgia office as Managing Partner. Richard has handled complex litigation in both state and federal courts throughout the Southeastern United States.
- Newsroom | 7.8.16WSHB is proud to announce eleven of our lawyers were recognized on the list of 2016 Rising Stars®. The attorneys honored on the Rising Stars list are 40 years or younger and demonstrate the finest qualities of a good lawyer: first-rate legal skills, preparation, judgment, creativity, dedication and ethics. No more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in each state are named to Rising Stars.
- Newsroom | 6.29.16WSHB is proud to announce that seven of our lawyers are included on this year’s Super Lawyers Lists, all with top ratings. Each of the WSHB attorneys included on this year’s lists has consistently earned the blue ribbon selection to the Super Lawyers list year after year.
- Newsroom | 6.17.16WSHB was ranked one of the top four law firms in the nation by American Lawyer in its annual Diversity Scorecard Survey. WSHB rose from 7th place last year to 4th place this year in the annual AmLaw Diversity Survey, considered the “gold standard” for rankings, which compares firms according to a score based on their combined percentage of minority lawyers and minority partners in U.S. offices.
- Newsroom | 5.20.16One of the nation's top law firms for female lawyers is also one of the best in the country for minority attorneys. This week legal publication Law360 honored WSHB with another top ranking. The "Best Law Firms for Minority Attorneys” survey published this week ranked the top 100 law firms in the nation based on firm minority representation at the partner and non-partner levels as well as its total number of minority attorneys.
- Newsroom | 4.20.16WSHB ranked tenth in Law360’s list of “100 Best Law Firms for Female Attorneys,” a survey published based on the firm's female representation at the partner and non-partner levels and its total number of female attorneys.
- Newsroom | 4.5.16Constance Endelicato, Partner at WSHB’s Los Angeles office, was named to the Daily Journal’s “Top 100 Women Lawyers in California” list for 2016. The list, published in both of the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal, recognizes California attorneys with “excellent lawyering and leadership skills among women attorneys in California” and legal work making a significant impact.
- Article | 2.24.16One year ago today, Nevada adopted the most significant changes in over a decade to its construction defect laws. One of the more impactful changes in the new legislation (generally referred to as “AB 125”) was the elimination of differing statutes of repose periods for patent, latent and hidden defects in favor of a single, uniform statute of repose.
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New procedural rules will impact both deadlines and the substantive handling of new and pending civil cases in federal court. At least 35 States base their own rules of civil procedure on the federal rules, so the impact of these changes may be even more widespread.
Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure adopted by the Supreme Court in April 2015 and accepted by Congress took effect on December 1. The changes affect Civil Rules 1, 4, 16, 26, 30, 31, 33, 34, 37, 55, and 84, and the Appendix of Forms. The amendments govern all proceedings commenced on or after December 1, 2015, and all proceedings then pending “insofar as just and practicable.”
- Newsroom | 1.28.16WSHB is pleased to announce that the following two attorneys have been elected to the Firm's partnership, effective January 1, 2016: T. Blake Gross and Tracy Lewis. “Elevation to partnership at WSHB is a reflection that each of the attorneys above has demonstrated exceptional legal, supervisory and management skills over their case loads,” said Dan Berman, WSHB's Firm Chairman. “Both of these attorneys has also consistently exhibited a strong desire to provide the firm's clients with first class legal representation, while always working hard to be a team player dedicated to maintaining the unique culture of WSHB that makes this firm special.”
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WSHB is pleased to announce that we have elected eleven associates to senior counsel: Summit Dhillon (Fresno), Steven Disharoon (Concord), Robin Holseth (Las Vegas), J. Paul Lewis (San Diego), Haley Maglieri (Denver), Graham Miller (Portland), Andrew Mallon (Rancho Cucamonga), Graham Miller (Portland), Jodi Mullis (Phoenix), Kamran Shahabi (Rancho Cucamonga), D. Sean Smith (Denver), and Erin Varriano (Seattle).
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- Newsroom | 11.15.15WSHB, a national law firm with 18 offices nationwide, announces that Daniel Berman, WSHB Co-Founder and Managing Partner, is promoted to firm chairman effective immediately. Dan assumed the role of firmwide managing partner in 2007 and has been instrumental in evolving the firm from a regional one with 75 lawyers in 8 offices in 3 western states into a prominent national law firm with almost 200 lawyers in 18 offices in 10 states.
- Newsroom | 11.13.15WSHB's Vince Beilman recently completed the requirements for the Litigation Management Institute at Columbia University Law School in New York and was awarded the designation of Certified Litigation Management Professional.
- Newsroom | 11.13.15WSHB's Alicia Kennon was awarded the designation of Certified Litigation Management Professional by the Claims & Litigation Management Alliance (CLM) after completing the extensive requirements of the Litigation Management Institute at Columbia University Law School in New York.
- Newsroom | 9.4.15WSHB is pleased to announce the opening of our newest office in Miami, located at 1111 Brickell Avenue, 11th Floor, Miami, Florida, 33131. WSHB Partner Vincent Beilman will supervise the new office in the heart of the financial district.
- Newsroom | 8.7.15WSHB is proud to announce that four of our attorneys have been recognized as 2015 Top Attorneys by Pasadena Magazine. This year’s honorees include Constance Endelicato, Partner, Los Angeles; Stephen Henning, Founding Partner, Los Angeles; Brian Hoffman, Partner, Los Angeles; and Kevin Smith, Founding Partner, Los Angeles. All honorees will be featured in the seventh annual Top Attorney issue hitting newsstands in early September.
- Newsroom | 7.24.15Seven attorneys from Wood Smith Henning & Berman have been named to the prestigious Super Lawyers list for 2015.
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