Baron & Budd attorney Burton LeBlanc has been named Finance Director for the Louisiana Democratic Party. He will lead the Party’s fundraising efforts and work with the Executive Committee on other fiscal issues. Burton LeBlanc is a perfect candidate for this role because of his prominence in the Louisiana business and legal communities. He is [...]
Last fall, the Senate voted to pass a ban on manufacturing, importing or using asbestos products in the United States. But after the vote, it was reported that products containing less than 1 percent asbestos were excluded from the ban. Today, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials is holding hearings [...]
LOS ANGELES, CA (February 13, 2008) – Baron & Budd attorney Eric Brown spoke today on the topic of educational success in high school and preparation for college to a group of about 80 6th, 7th, and 8th graders at Audobon Middle School in South Los Angeles. Mr. Brown and other members of the Langston [...]
Northern Indiana has a large groundwater supply. It is used heavily to supply water for the area, and for most of the people in the area, there's no alternative source for drinking water nearby. But it's not naturally protected from toxic substances released from the surface. The aquifer is 5 to 25 feet below ground [...]
A recent study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology has found MTBE contamination in 7 out of 10 mobile home parks in Rockingham County, half of the private wells tested in the county's most populous regions, and 40 percent of the community water supplies in the same areas. In New Hampshire's four most [...]
On December 13, 2007, Russell W. Budd, president and managing shareholder of Dallas’ Baron & Budd, P.C., and his wife Dorothy Budd were recognized for their commitment to strengthening and rebuilding West Dallas neighborhoods at the West Dallas tree-lighting ceremony and Grande Posada in Benito Juarez Park at the corner of Morris Street and Winnetka [...]
BATON ROUGE, La. – Attorney Burton LeBlanc, of counsel to Dallas’ Baron & Budd, P.D., and a name partner in Baton Rouge-based LeBlanc & Waddell, LLP, has been awarded the prestigious Wiedemann Wysocki National Finance Council Award by the American Association for Justice. Mr. LeBlanc is one of only 14 attorneys in the United States [...]
Russell W. Budd, president and managing shareholder of Dallas’ Baron & Budd, P.C., and his family have joined two other local families to donate a prominent piece of land that provides the “missing link” between two of the city’s most popular hiking and biking trails. The connection of the Katy Trail and the Trinity Strand [...]
Baron & Budd attorney Brent M. Rosenthal has been elected to the American Law Institute (ALI), a very selective and distinguished group of lawyers, judges, and law professors. As a group, ALI members are extremely accomplished professionally and they have shown interest in the improving and clarifying the law. The American Law Institute, established in [...]
Mesothelioma attorneys Baron & Budd have devoted a special section on the website www.mesotheliomanews.com to honor public figures who have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, a form of cancer caused by asbestos exposure. Because of the low level of exposure needed to trigger mesothelioma and its particularly long latency period, mesothelioma is not limited to workers [...]