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Nielsen Merksamer Adds Three Accomplished Attorneys In Election, Political and Litigation Practice Areas
Nielsen Merksamer is pleased to welcome three new attorneys to its San Francisco Bay Area office, who will provide clients valuable experience and skills across key practice areas.
Steve Merksamer Selected for Inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2017
Nielsen Merksamer is pleased to announce that the publication The Best Lawyers in America© selected Steve Merksamer for inclusion in the 2017 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, an honor he has received every year since 2008. Merksamer was chosen through an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluated their professional peers.
Nielsen Merksamer Co-Chairs National Political Law Conference for 39th Consecutive Year
Nielsen Merksamer attorneys will again co-chair and serve as faculty for conference in Washington D.C. on “Corporate Political Activities 2017: Complying with Campaign Finance, Lobbying and Ethics Laws” on September 7 and 8.
Nielsen Merksamer Attorneys Recognized As 2017 Northern California Super Lawyers/Rising Stars
Nielsen Merksamer is pleased to announce that Steve Merksamer has been named a Northern California Super Lawyer and Chris Skinnell and Elli Abdoli were named Northern California Rising Stars for 2017.
Nielsen Merksamer Publishes National Campaign Finance Compendium at Ethics Conference
Nielsen Merksamer participated in the 2016 Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL) conference, held this December in New Orleans, Louisiana. COGEL is the trade association of federal, state, local, and now international government ethics agencies.
Nielsen Merksamer Files Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Accept Major Indian Gaming Case
On November 23, Nielsen Merksamer litigators filed a brief on behalf of the California State Association of Counties and Amador County, California, asking the United States Supreme Court to grant certiorari in Citizens Against Reservation Shopping v. Jewell, #16-572.
Art Scotland Named to the CCJSCA Hall of Fame
In November of 2016, Justice Arthur Scotland, of counsel at Nielsen Merksamer, was named to the Hall of Fame of the Council of Chief Judges of the State Courts of Appeal, in recognition of his “notable and extraordinary service” to the organization. He is one of only thirteen individuals to have been inducted into that body in the CCJSCA’s 36-year existence.
Art Scotland Receives SacLEGAL’s Fourth Annual Founders’ Award
On November 10, Justice Arthur Scotland, of counsel at Nielsen Merksamer, received the Fourth Annual Founders’ Award from SacLEGAL, Sacramento’s LGBT bar association, comprised of attorneys, professionals and legislative advocates affiliated with the Sacramento County Bar Association.
Jim Parrinello Honored with San Francisco Apartment Association President’s Award
On November 10, Jim Parrinello, the head of Nielsen Merksamer’s litigation section, received the San Francisco Apartment Association’s Presidents’ Award at the Association’s 10th Annual Trophy Awards dinner.
Election Results in the States: Political Law Ballot Measures
Four states had statewide ballot measures that concerned some aspect of ethics, campaign contributions, or lobbying on the November 2016 ballot. Three passed; one, in Washington State, failed.