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Employment Law Update: What’s Trending with Restrictive Covenants?
Employment Law Update: What’s Trending with Restrictive Covenants?
Join us for our Employment Law Update on “What’s Trending with Restrictive Covenants?” on June 22, 2021. Please see below for more information, and how to register for this event. Details: Employment Law Update: What’s Trending with Restrictive Covenants?…
Mississippi Supreme Court Affirms Directed Verdict on Punitive Damages in Favor of Defendant Trucking Company
Mississippi Supreme Court Affirms Directed Verdict on Punitive Damages in Favor of Defendant Trucking Company
Matthew Williams and Jennifer Young, attorneys from Galloway’s Gulfport office, recently received a favorable decision from the Mississippi Supreme Court, affirming the trial court’s directed verdict in favor of Galloway’s client, a trucking company, on the issue of punitive damages. …
Does Your Company Plan to Hire Foreign Workers Temporarily in a Specialty Occupation? Important Dates to Remember
Does Your Company Plan to Hire Foreign Workers Temporarily in a Specialty Occupation? Important Dates to Remember
Important Dates for the Fiscal Year 2022 H-1B Electronic Registration Process March 2, 2021: Petitioners and registrants can begin creating H-1B registrant accounts at noon Eastern. March 9, 2021: H-1B registration period opens at noon Eastern. March 25,…
Juvie Cruz Cardenas Selected to Serve on Steering Committee for the 2021 Texas Minority Counsel Program
Juvie Cruz Cardenas Selected to Serve on Steering Committee for the 2021 Texas Minority Counsel Program
After a highly competitive selection process, Juvie Cruz Cardenas was selected to serve on the Texas Minority Counsel Program’s (TMCP) Steering Committee for the 2021 Annual Conference. The TMCP was created in 1993 and is the premier client development, networking,…
Galloway is a Proud Sponsor of ABC Young Professionals Legislative Kick-Off Luncheon
Galloway is a Proud Sponsor of ABC Young Professionals Legislative Kick-Off Luncheon
Galloway’s Christopher Meeks, a member of the Associated Builders and Contractors Young Professionals Executive Board, helped organize the “Legislative Kick-Off Luncheon” scheduled for Friday, March 26. The purpose of the event is to discuss the upcoming legislative fiscal session. The…
Helping Employers Open for Business: Alabama Law Seeks to Protect Businesses from COVID Exposure Claims
Helping Employers Open for Business: Alabama Law Seeks to Protect Businesses from COVID Exposure Claims
Alabama Passes Law Providing Businesses with Civil Immunity from COVID
Galloway’s Managing Director Jason P. Waguespack to Speak at Marine Insurance Nordics
Galloway’s Managing Director Jason P. Waguespack to Speak at Marine Insurance Nordics
Director Jason Waguespack will participate in a panel discussion at Marine Insurance Nordics on May 6, 2021. The panel discussion topic is Geopolitics and Sanctions- Keeping the Right Side of the Law. The session will review the latest sanctions rules, including…
Galloway Director Joe Hassinger Has Successfully Completed the Harvard Program on Negotiation
Galloway Director Joe Hassinger Has Successfully Completed the Harvard Program on Negotiation
Galloway Director Joe Hassinger has successfully completed the Harvard Program on Negotiation PON Global program. As Harvard explains, PON Global, offered by the Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School, is designed to provide cutting-edge negotiation skills, teach overcoming…
Louisiana Supreme Court Affirms Ruling in Favor of Local Live Music Venue
Louisiana Supreme Court Affirms Ruling in Favor of Local Live Music Venue
In a security and premises liability case that garnered significant media attention, the Louisiana Supreme Court has recently denied plaintiff Kimi Seymour’s writ of certiorari, choosing to uphold the trial court’s dismissal of Seymour’s case against our client, a local live music…
Decoding Cyber Insurance: Building a Stronger Firewall for Digital Risk
Decoding Cyber Insurance: Building a Stronger Firewall for Digital Risk
Cyber insurance is often seen as the firewall of last resort, the last line of defense when technical safety measures fail. The truth is that many corporations need to further decode their cyber coverage policies. Carefully examining endorsements, exclusions, and…
New Orleans Litigator Ryan O’Connor Named Frank L. Maraist Award Finalist
New Orleans Litigator Ryan O’Connor Named Frank L. Maraist Award Finalist
Ryan O’Connor, a defense attorney in Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith’s New Orleans offices, has been recognized as a finalist for the Frank L. Maraist Award, presented by the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel. The distinguished award, which will presented at an…
Turning Discovery into Dismissal: Galloway Wins Avocado Liability Case
Turning Discovery into Dismissal: Galloway Wins Avocado Liability Case
In one of the more unusual premises liability cases, Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith attorneys Autumn George and Catherine Arpen secured a strategic dismissal through disciplined case management and timely enforcement of discovery obligations in the case our Jacksonville team dubbed “the attack of…
Galloway Secures $800K Breach of Contract Trial Win in South Louisiana
Galloway Secures $800K Breach of Contract Trial Win in South Louisiana
Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith attorneys Madeline Smith Hebert and Glenn Istre secured a significant trial victory in Franklin, Louisiana, on behalf of a land buyer in a breach of contract dispute involving a waterfront residential development on the Lower Atchafalaya…
Inbox Intruders: Understanding Email Scams and Cyber Threats
Inbox Intruders: Understanding Email Scams and Cyber Threats
In technological spaces, speed and innovation are prized commodities. Unfortunately for businesses, cyber-attacks and threat actors have evolved with the times. Network security has expanded beyond the IT department to the purview of corporate executives and to the cyber &…
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