Having expended its LNG budget for the year, the City of Fall River, Mass., plans to rely on its in-house team to handle more issues related to its ongoing opposition to the Weaver's Cove LNG regasification project. The Herald News reports that the town's outside counsel will retain a role but curre ...

The following is a list of upcoming events that I will be attending. I look forward to seeing you there!: Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal's 11th Annual Intellectual Property Symposium at The University of Texas School of Law in Austin on February 19th, 2010. Stanford Technology Law Rev ...

At its meeting this week, the Jamestown Town Council adopted a resolution opposing the Weaver's Cove LNG project. Read more in the Jamestown Press. Separately, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) has informed Weaver's Cove that it must obtain a RIDEM water quality certifi ...

The results of the General Assembly's judicial elections are in - notably, Craig Brown of Florence, S.C. is now a circuit court judge. I don't know much about the other new judges, but Craig has considerable experience in civil and criminal law, and has worked as a defense lawyer in both state and ...

Adams & Reese, a regional law firm based out of New Orleans, is opening its third Florida office in Tampa.  In December, the firm broadened its south eastern base by taking over offices in Sarasota and St. Petersburg.  The Tampa office will open with eight attorneys and a certified land planner. ...

Vicki Been's latest SSRN digest of Property, Land Use, & Real Estate Law Abstracts has three articles on non-U.S. land use issues: Maelys De la Ruppelle, Deng Quhen (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)), Li Shi (CASS), & Thomas Vendryes,...

CLIMATE AGENCY GOING UP IN FLAMES: “A catastrophic heat wave appears to be closing in on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. How hot is it getting in the scientific kitchen where they’ve been cooking the books and spicing up the stew pots? So hot, apparently, that Andrew Weav ...

The Providence Journal reports that the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is continuing its opposition to the planned Weaver's Cove LNG import facility. The DEM has denied two applications submitted by Weaver's Cove and is defending both denials in state and federal court.

Fiala & Weaver P.L.L.C., a Washington D.C.-based intellectual propery law firm, is seeking part-time and full-time patent agents, as well as persons to fill Of Counsel, associate, and technical specialist positions, to assist us with our growing practice. Opportunities are available primarily for ...

Rhode Island Rep. Douglas W. Gablinske (D) has proposed a measure (H 7014) that would prohibit any ship carrying a hazardous cargo from travelling under a bridge without a minimum clearance of 25 feet. As currently envisioned, LNG vessels travelling under the Mount Hope Bridge to the planned Weaver' ...