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Eide Bailly LLP is a Trans-Mississippi American mid-tier public accounting and ancillary professional services firm.It primarily provides tax services, assurance (which includes financial audit), consulting and advisory services to its clients and is a member firm of HLB International, an accounting network.
In 1947, the firm's labor department, led by J. Mack Swigert, was instrumental in helping Robert Taft, who had become a United States Senator, draft and pass the groundbreaking Taft–Hartley Act that regulated labor unions. [5] [6] In the late 1960s-early 1970s, Murray S. Monroe founded the firm's Antitrust practice. [7] [8]
The Convention on the Law Applicable to Products Liability is a convention concluded in 1971 within the framework of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), which governs the law that should be applied to products liability cases. [3] It entered into force in 1973 and as of 2020, 11 countries are party to it. [1]
The overwhelming majority of countries have strongly preferred to address product liability through legislative means. [2] In most countries, this occurred either by enacting a separate product liability act, adding product liability rules to an existing civil code, or including strict liability within a comprehensive Consumer Protection Act. [2]
Through the roots of the Alston, Miller & Gaines’ predecessor firms, the merger with Jones, Bird and Howell formed Alston & Bird on December 1, 1982. [7] Expansion beyond Georgia began with the establishment of an office in Washington, D.C., followed by the 1997 merger with intellectual property-focused Bell Seltzer Park & Gibson (Charlotte and Raleigh), Walter, Conston, Alexander & Green in ...
The firm was founded in 1948 in New York by Marshall Skadden, John Slate, and Les Arps. [7] Joseph Flom was hired the same year as the firm's first associate. In 1959, William R. Meagher joined the firm and Elizabeth Head, the firm's first female attorney, was hired. In 1960, the firm's name became Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. [7]
The Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (ULLCA), which includes a 2006 revision called the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, is a uniform act (similar to a model statute), proposed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws ("NCCUSL") for the governance of limited liability companies (often called LLCs) by U.S. states.
In 2012 and 2013, Davis Polk was named America's Law Firm of the Year by the International Financial Law Review. [21] The firm placed 15th on The American Lawyer's 2021 AmLaw 200 ranking, [1] and, on the 2021 Global 200 survey, Davis Polk ranked as the 20th highest grossing law firm in the world. [1]