Thompson Hine Enhances New York Office With Addition of Two Lateral Partners

Thompson Hine LLP is pleased to announce that William H. Schrag and Peter J. Gennuso have joined the firm’s New York office as partners in the Business Restructuring, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy and Corporate Transactions & Securities practice groups, respectively.

New York law extends health care coverage

By: Contributing Writer College students may now benefit from President Barack Obama's new health care legislation, which will allow them to remain on their parents' insurance plan until they are 26 years old. New York is among 17 states making headway on the new policy and...

Many kids still exposed to secondhand smoke in cars

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new government study reports that while fewer kids and teens are getting exposed to secondhand smoke while riding in the car, rates of exposure are still high enough to warrant concern. The authors recommend that more parts of the country ban smoking in cars carrying kids -- laws that are on the books in four states. In a survey of middle and high school students ...

Class Action Lawsuits Now Target More Than a Dozen Law Schools

NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A threatened wave of class actions against American law schools became a reality last week after plaintiffs' lawyers sued a dozen more schools over their allegedly ...

Egan takes back apology on local priest abuse, triggering outrage

In this Sept. 11, 2011 file photo, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, left, and Cardinal Edward Egan, former archbishop of New York, stand together at St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church in Lower Manhattan before a holding a service to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.