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The law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC (Spilman) announced today that it has elected several new members effective January 1, 2013. M. Mallory Mantiply (Roanoke, Va.) focuses on trials and litigation of all types. He has tried cases in state and federal courts, before juries, judges and arbitrators. Mantiply is a certified mediator and…
The bounty and variety of West Virginia’s trout fishing is one of the latest tools the state is using to hook the interest of business executives. The state will be featured on the Outdoor Channel’s “Fly Rod Chronicles with Curtis Fleming” beginning Jan. 1, 2013. The West Virginia Department of Commerce has made West Virginia…
Acorn Technologies, one of the Charleston area’s most experienced independent technology consulting firms, is pleased to announce the addition of fractional leadership to its service offerings. Fractional leadership roles are quickly becoming an item in high demand due to the uncertainty of economic factors. “Businesses are having to learn to benefit from a leaner operation…
The law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that Lisa M. Hawrot and Ronald M. Musser have joined its Wheeling, W.Va. office as counsel. Hawrot has represented parties in West Virginia and Ohio in all aspects of complex family law for more than 15 years. Last year, she successfully argued an adoption matter before…
After a childhood steeped in creative literature – much of it science fiction – and a talent for composing his own poetry and prose, Sandy Baldwin grew up and took a job writing technical manuals for a software company. There he witnessed with fascination the rapid evolution of the Internet, the rise of personal computing,…
Lindsay Deel calls the Chesapeake Bay region home, a home she’s working to protect from ecological collapse. Deel, who grew up in Hampton, Va., is using her work as a graduate research assistant in the Department of Geology and Geography at West Virginia University to safeguard the bay’s ecology. She recently received funding to continue…