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At this year’s Arkansas Hospital Associations Annual Meeting, Medical Malpractice Attorney Michelle Ator took part in a panel discussion that focused on recent developments, trends and challenges in legal and risk management.

Friday Eldredge & Clark, LLP is pleased to welcome four new associates. Lindsey H. Emerson, Sarah Giammo and Caitlin Kennedy join the firm’s headquarters in Little Rock and Andrew Lawson is the newest member of the firm’s office in Rogers.

The Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce named Attorney Kael M. Bowling as a member of Class XXXII to the Leadership Fayetteville Program.

Attorney Michelle Ator served as a faculty member in the recent American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) National Trial College that took place at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT.

US corporations and farmers have cheered the more “business-friendly” approach recently adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) but any relief they are experiencing will be short-lived if the plaintiff’s bar gets its way.

Arkansas Rule of Civil Procedure 4 governs service of the summons and complaint necessary to begin any lawsuit. The rule specifies who can accept service and how the summons and complaint must be served. On June 21, 2018, the Arkansas Supreme Court approved significant amendments to Rule 4 that are set to go into effect on January 1, 2019.

Class action lawsuits allow large groups of plaintiff’s to bring their claims together in a single lawsuit. In the realm of employment law, employees may bring class action suits for claims of systemic harassment, discrimination or unequal pay.