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Friday, Eldredge & Clark Attorney Donald H. Bacon is the 2018 recipient of the Sidney S. McMath Professionalism Award. The honor is given annually to recognize an attorney who consistently exemplified the highest ideals of integrity, honor and civility and whose polite and courteous demeanor reflect the highest levels of professionalism.

Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP and the Trust Division of Farmers Bank & Trust will host the 2018 Tax Planning Update Seminar for Certified Public Accountants and attorneys on Thursday, May 17 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lunch is included and attendees will qualify for 1.5 hours of CLE credits and 1.5 hours of CPE credits in Arkansas. Space is limited and the cost to register is $20.

Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP is pleased to announce the recent hire of Kelly Newberg, PHR, SHRM-SCP, who joins the firm as the Director of Human Resources.

Attorneys Jamie Huffman Jones and Marshall S. Ney have both been appointed by the Arkansas Supreme Court to serve on separate committees beginning in 2018.

Attorney Jamie Jones was invited to join a panel discussion hosted by the Editorial Advisory Board of Arkansas Lawyer magazine to discuss women in the legal profession. The purpose, according to the magazine, was to provide insight from several perspectives on the challenges that women in the legal profession are facing now and faced in the past.

The firm has had the pleasure of working with legal intern Johanna Stenberg of Finland for the past month. Johanna, who is a third-year law student at Tallinn University in Estonia, originally became acquainted with our state in 2012 when she was an exchange student at Morrilton High School (where she later graduated.) “I knew I wanted to come back to Arkansas,” she said. “And I wanted the chance to experience the practice of law and I was able to do that here.”

Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP is proud to announce six attorneys are named by Best Lawyers© as “Lawyer of the Year.” In addition, the publication’s 2018 edition recognizes 52 attorneys, making the firm the highest-ranked firm in Arkansas. Best Lawyers has published their list for over three decades, earning the respect of the profession, the media, and the public as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals.