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Barnes & Thornburg adds litigator, Joseph Matteo, in New York office

Joseph A. Matteo, an accomplished commercial litigator, joins Barnes & Thornburg as a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department. Matteo will be based in the firm’s newly opened New York office, where he joins six new lateral partners and several other attorneys from some of the city’s most elite law firms.

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Wolters Kluwer launches TSoftPlus PPP Forgiveness Module

With the U.S. CARES Act’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) now entering the loan forgiveness phase, Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions launches its eagerly awaited TSoftPlus™ PPP Forgiveness Module to help local lenders and their small business client recipients of PPP funding facilitate both online and in-person loan forgiveness applications.

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Weil adds tax partner Daniel R.B. Nicholas in Washington, D.C.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announces that Daniel R.B. Nicholas has joined the Firm as a partner. He is part of Weil’s global Tax practice and is based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office.

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McGuireWoods’ Kristen Calleja to join Virginia Attorney General’s office

Kristen Calleja, counsel in McGuireWoods’ IP Litigation & Transactions Department in Richmond, will join the Virginia Office of the Attorney General on July 27, 2020, as a senior assistant attorney general in the Tobacco Enforcement Section of the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Division. Her last day at McGuireWoods is July 24.

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JAMS supports National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) with grant to provide nationwide access to virtual mediation.

The JAMS Foundation is supporting the National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) through a $25,000 grant that will provide nationwide access to virtual mediation.

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Kerry J. Held joins FTI as managing director

FTI Consulting, Inc. announces the addition of Kerry J. Held as a Managing Director in the Strategic Communications segment, specializing in business transformation communications. Based in New York, Ms. Held will report to Shannon Stucky Pritchett, Americas Head of Restructuring & Business Transformation Communications.

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Akin Gump advises lenders in Salt Creek Midstream recapitalization

SCM Topco, LLC, parent of Salt Creek Midstream, LLC, a full service natural gas gatherer and processor (“Salt Creek Gas”), announces that it has closed on a comprehensive recapitalization with additional investments from both its existing lender groups and funds managed by Ares Management, a leading global alternative investment manager. A team from Akin Gump advised the holdco facility lenders

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Fish & Richardson teams up with former NASA astronauts to create virtual space camp

It was a mission impossible situation. Over the past 21 years, Fish & Richardson has sent over 500 diverse middle school students from underrepresented areas to U.S. Space & Rocket Center Space Camp in Alabama every summer on full scholarships.

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Law Professor Margaret Lewis elected life member of the Council on Foreign Relations

The Council on Foreign Relations has elected Seton Hall University School of Law Professor Margaret K. Lewis to life membership.

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Deloitte Launches US Legal Business Services

Deloitte announces the launch of its Legal Business Services practice in the U.S., a comprehensive suite of legal management consulting and technologically-enabled legal managed services for corporate legal departments designed to accelerate the transformation of the business of law.

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