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Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly have each selected Motley Rice member Don Migliori as one of their 2011 Lawyers of the Year.

Motley Rice securities lawyers Marlon Kimpson and Badge Humphries will both be on hand at the upcoming OPAL Financial Group's annual Investment Education Symposium held in conjunction with the Louisiana Trustee Education Council (LaTec).

Motley Rice is proud to again support the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (MARF) as a "2012 Legal Partner for a Cure for Mesothelioma." A national non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure for mesothelioma and eradicating the devastating disease, the Foundation takes the following actions:

According to a release distributed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the International Operations Division of the Huntsville Center in Alabama is working to establish a recycling program in Afghanistan which combines waste management with economic and social development.

Former Inspector General for the US DOT, a pilot and aviation lawyer offers most common, and possibly best bits of information for air travelers to know

On Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, a U.S. congressional committee was again asked to further "examine medical devices that have developed serious defects after being implanted in patients."

On Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, a swimming pool heater allegedly caused a carbon monoxide leak that killed a Rhode Island man and seriously injured others at a Corridor G Holiday Inn Express in South Charleston, West Va.

The carbon monoxide levels at the hotel were measured at 500 to 600 parts per million. According to authorities, any reading over 30 parts per million is cause for concern. The victims were staying on the hotel's fifth floor, but carbon monoxide levels were high in other parts of the hotel according to the South Charleston Fire Chief,

Thousands of people have suffered life-altering injuries and insurmountable medical bills resulting from a failed metal-on-metal hip replacement devices.

On Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, Metro Vancouver employer Arthur Moore was sentenced to 60 days in jail by the B.C. Supreme Court for failing to adequately protect his employees while they handled asbestos. According to court documents, Moore often hired young, recovering addicts and knowingly exposed them to asbestos during demolition work without providing the necessary protective equipment.

Human rights lawyer Don Migliori has been invited to speak at the 2012 Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) Mass Violence and Emergency National Training Conference in Jacksonville, Fla., on Feb. 2, 2012.