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Blog Archive - "sls news & events" Category

December 11, 2012

To our clients, faithful blog readers, and friends:

October 22, 2012

SLS's vice president John T. Bergin and trial team e-discovery counsel George Carry recently published an online article for the "Legally Speaking" column of the Construction Executive website - the online edition for the magazine for the Associated Builders and Contractors. 

September 4, 2012

SLS’s John Bergin obtained a defense verdict in a case involving the construction of a Major League Baseball Stadium after more than eight years of litigation, a six-week trial, and two rounds of post-trial briefs.  John represented two national general contractors and construction managers who had formed a joint-venture to design and construct the MLB Stadium.  Plaintiff &...

August 6, 2012

Over the last couple of months, SLS's Co-President Judah Lifschitz and trial team attorneys Laura Fraher and George Carry authored Electronic Discovery focused articles for InsideCounsel.com's Technology page. 

August 1, 2012

SLS trial attorney Laura Fraher was recently published in the latest edition of the DRI Newsletter, The Critical Path, on the topic of drafting subcontracts with strong prompt payment protection as provided by the Prompt Payment Act of 1982. 

June 28, 2012

SLS's Co-President Judah Lifschitz and trial team attorney George Carry recently published an article on InsideCounsel.com analyzing predictive coding, a crucial but still developing e-discovery tool that automatically predicts relevancy across large collections of electronically stored information.  To read the full article, click > read more

June 19, 2012

The June 2012 edition of InsideCounsel Magazine featured the Article:  "Predictive coding still requires human expertise - It is unwise to rely solely on technology that is still so new" co-authored by Judah Lifschitz and George Carry of SLS.  The article discusses the benefits and risks of ...

May 21, 2012

Veteran SLS trial attorney Scott D. Burke has been appointed by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland to represent Albert Curtis Mills.  Mr. Mills alleges that his federal civil rights were violated when a corrections officer at the Maryland House of Correction utilized excessive force to restrain Mr. Mills.

April 27, 2012

Shapiro, Lifschitz & Schram believes that attorneys have a fundamental obligation to help those in need and give back to the community. 

January 5, 2012

The December 22, 2011 edition of Corporate Counsel Magazine featured the Article:  "From the Experts:  Is Your Company Tweeting its Way into Trouble?" co-authored by Judah Lifschitz and Laura Fraher of SLS.  The article discusses the emerging risks - both business and legal - that come from the explosion of social media use and the expanding threat of "E-trouble" to businesses...

Did You Know . . .

Members of the SLS trial group have tried in excess of 50 jury trials and 75 bench trials?
The SLS construction group has worked on sports stadiums across the country including Orioles Park in Baltimore and Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati?
The SLS construction group has worked on power plant projects across the country?
In 2007 SLS was selected for an Honorable Mention as one of the Best Places To Work in Washington DC?
Ron Shapiro, Steve Schram and Judd Lifschitz have all been selected as SuperLawyers by Law and Politics?
The SLS office building is an historic townhouse constructed in the late 1800s?
SLS has been selected by Martindale-Hubbell as a Preeminent Law Firm?
SLS trial lawyers have argued appeals in the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal for the 4th, 5th, 9th, D.C. and Federal Circuit?
SLS trial lawyers have been lead trial counsel in cases in Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia, - to name just a few?
Virtually all the cases that SLS trial lawyers mediated have been favorably settled at mediation?

The transactional group at SLS was lead counsel on one of the largest, most complex mixed-use projects in downtown Washington, DC involving 4 lenders and 6 property owners?

In appreciation for the outstanding efforts of each of its employees during 2007, SLS gave everyone (attorneys, paralegals, and staff) a 4 day/3 night expense paid trip to Key West, Florida?
The transactional group at SLS has represented tenants in more than 200 retail leases in the Mid-Atlantic region?
Every attorney in the transactional group at SLS has at least 15 years experience?
The transactional group at SLS has represented developers in the purchase, construction, financing and/or sale of more than 75 multi-family apartment projects?
The transactional group at SLS has represented real estate investors and developers with respect to property in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Michigan and the U.S. Virginia Islands?
Attorneys in the transactional group at SLS have represented eight national banks in commercial real estate loans?
Attorneys in the transactional group at SLS have represented the FDIC, the Resolution Trust Corporation and several banking institutions in loan workout transactions throughout the Mid-Atlantic region?
The transactional group at SLS has represented homebuilders and commercial real estate developers in work-outs of individual loans and also for work-outs of large portfolios involving dozens of properties in several states?
The trial lawyers of SLS have numerous reported decisions to their credit?