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Bowles Rice issued the following announcement on Feb. 1.
Bowles Rice partners J. Mark Adkins and W. Taylor Frankovitch have been elected to serve on the law firm’s Executive Committee for four-year terms.
Managing Partner Tom Heywood, who chairs the seven-person Executive Committee, said Adkins and Frankovitch were nominated to serve and formally elected at the firm’s January 2021 partner meeting. The Bowles Rice Executive Committee oversees the operation of the firm and makes policy and other significant decisions. Completing their Executive Committee terms this year are partners Ronda L. Harvey and C. Seth Wilson.
Adkins, who practices in the firm’s Charleston, West Virginia office, focuses his work primarily on complex, high-risk commercial litigation in the areas of banking, construction, energy and commercial contract disputes. With more than two decades of representative experience in litigation work, including numerous tried-to-verdict jury trials, he ass
President Lincoln said, “Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision.” Faith in our American democracy depends on confidence in the election pro
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January 18, 2021 - 9:23 pm
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. The incoming dean of the West Virginia University College of Law is considering her new position as an opportunity to grow the program.
University officials last week announced Amelia Smith Rinehart will become dean on June 30. Rinehart currently is associate dean of academic affairs at the University of Utah law school.
Amelia Smith Rinehart (West Virginia University)
“President (Gordon) Gee and Provost (Maryanne) Reed are really doing some amazing, innovative things there,” she said. “It’s a really good opportunity to take a small law school and think about the things that it can do here as we face some uncertain and challenging times.”
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West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner took the ceremonial oath of office at the Barbour County Courthouse Friday morning. Warner was sworn in by Barbour County Sheriff Brett Carpenter.
PHILIPPI To commemorate his family’s history in Barbour County, West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner took the ceremonial oath of office at the Barbour County Courthouse Friday morning.
Warner was sworn in for his second term by Barbour County Sheriff Brett Carpenter at the start of the Barbour County Commission meeting Friday. Warner, originally elected in 2016, defeated Natalie Tennant for a second time in November, earning 58 percent of the votes cast.
President Lincoln said, “Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision.”
Faith in our American democracy depends on confidence in the election process and results. When confidence is shaken, so too is the confidence in our government and our leaders.
Even during the pandemic, West Virginia’s election laws and procedures gave voters confidence in our system of selecting leaders, and that confidence propelled the highest voter turnout in over half a century, and second-highest turnout in our state’s history.
While COVID-19 created challenges for every state, West Virginia was prepared. Beginning in 2017, we began building relationships with our 55 county clerks and conducting extensive training. We shepherded voter list maintenance procedures with our clerks, and to date, they have removed over 200,000 deceased, duplicate, and outdated records from voter rolls. We created and practiced contingency operations, established extensive cybersecurity policies, and created