User talk:Mediterraneo

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Mediterraneo

I literally turned out the lights at Myerson & Kuhn and, if I remember correctly, we hung on until early 1990. Myerson then started/joined Myerson Cooper Stahl & Zelmanovitz, which shortly thereafter became Stahl & Zelmanovitz after Myerson was indicted, with many thanks to me! And I'd do it AGAIN! What a louse he was and probably still is -- he destroyed or at least disrupted hundreds of lives because of his respulsively huge ego (along with the rest of him).

I also had the honor of working with Mr. Kuhn who will always remain an outstanding gentleman to me.

Kathy

Incorporating new names into the Wiki

Hi Mediterraneo

I see you keep on writing about law firms. I do the same, and I want to share with you some trick learnt recently. We both create new articles, introducing new names (say John Smith) and notions. A good article should be incorporated into Wiki via a number of inbound and outbound links. We establish outbound links by ourselves and can see generated inbound links via "What links here" in the left table, if somebody else [[]]-ed John Smith before us. However, we can't check the whole Wiki for the name.

Here is the trick how to do so: Use google search -- "John Smith" site:en.wikipedia.org

You will see the list of both linked and unlinked uses of John Smith. If relevant and unlinked, you can convert these uses into inbound links. Try it, and you will see how many new inbound links you can create for your favorite articles. Sometimes, the subtle difference such as "&" or "and" can create a dead link.

Sorry, if this is info you already know. My aim is to write articles that are well-incorporated into the whole body of the text.

My recent article is The Partners by James B. Stewart. I also want to write about Double Billing by Cameron Stracher and Lions in the Street by Paul Hoffman.

Best regards, Lamro (talk) 09:25, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New articles

Hi,

How is life in these tough days? I trust u r OK. I have added a couple of articles. I would appreciate if you take a look and expand them if possible.

Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon - a now defunct white shoe law firm
Edward B. Burling - a name partner of Covington & Burling

BR, Lamro (talk) 10:27, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Perecman & Fanning

An article that you have been involved in editing, Perecman & Fanning, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Perecman & Fanning. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Eastlaw (talk) 03:30, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:Hunton.gif

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Law firms of Hong Kong

Thanks for your comment. I'm ambiguous about whether it should be kept solely to firms based/HQ'ed in Hong Kong, since several law firms in the list are listed under different city categories, and Category:Law firms of Singapore also mostly includes overseas firms.

A solution could be to mimic Category:Law firms of the United States and Category:Foreign law firms with offices in the United States, and add a sub-category - Foreign law firms with offices in Hong Kong, or something similar. Would that work? Misterx2000 (talk) 16:27, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Whew, I did it (created the sub-category)..it wasn't easy!Misterx2000 (talk) 09:23, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Thelen.gif)

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Steptoe & Johnson (West Virginia)

definitely needs to merge into regular Steptoe. The WV firm is nn on its own, but deserves a mention in the discussion of the history of Steptoe. -- Y not? 19:36, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I am pretty sure it is not a notable law firm. -- Y not? 00:56, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work on law firms

Hi Mediterraneo, I just wanted to tell you thanks for the good job on Thelen LLP and the two Steptoe & Johnson articles. I disagree with Y (above) that the Steptoe & Johnson (West Virginia) should be merged and is non-notable itself. Both firms are on the NLJ 250 list, and I would assert that this fact alone would render them notable. Perhaps you should mention this point in the article.

BTW, I have to wonder if Thelen LLP will even still exist by this time next year...?

Cheers, Eastlaw (talk) 23:39, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

LOL, did I call this or what? Seriously though, I hope you are doing OK, wherever you are. I, unfortunately, am still unemployed. --Eastlaw (talk) 03:49, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Garrigues (law firm)

Hello, ciao! You recently deleted all the specialties for the above firm but did not provide a reason for doing so, nor a source for your revision. Can you elucidate? Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 15:49, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Thelen crisis

Hi Mediterraneo, sorry to hear about your friends at Thelen. Rumors have been swirling about layoffs/dissolutions at a number of firms. Here in New Jersey, there wasn't quite as much financial work going on as in NYC or Chicago, but the real estate bubble caused a growth in the legal market that has turned into a glut. So many lawyers, from solo practitioners to large firms, are losing money in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The Fed is supposedly going to announce a rate cut today, but at this point, I doubt that it will be of any real help.

Carry on... --Eastlaw (talk) 16:18, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Steptoe & Johnson (West Virginia)

A tag has been placed on Steptoe & Johnson (West Virginia) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company or corporation, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for companies and corporations.

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Speedy deletion of Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass

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question...

Your edit summary here seems to indicate you started a new article by cutting and pasting material from an existing article. Have I got that right?

If so I am concerned that the name of the existing article isn't given -- so the revision history can't be checked. This is important for several reasons. For instance, if someone detects a copyright violation, and it turns out to be in material you cut and pasted, you could have innocently cut and pasted copyvio material someone else pinched. It is desirable to be able to determine who is violating copyrights, so they can be told to stop, and so their other contributions can be checked to see if they violated copyrights elsewhere.

Further, there is the issue of {{gfdl}}. We give up various rights under the gfdl. But one we keep is attribution. When material is cut and pasted, without saying where it comes from, the original contributors attribution is lost. Geo Swan (talk) 21:43, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see you cut and pasted the material from the Shearman & Sterling article. Geo Swan (talk) 21:58, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:Hornbook -- a new WP:Law task force for the J.D. curriculum

Hi Mediterraneo,

I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.

Each casebook will have a subpage.

Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or {{anchors}} in Wikipedia (example).
Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.

I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:

1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, {{User Hornbook}} to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Wikipedia:Hornbook/participants.

2. If you're a law student,

Email http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Hornbook to your classmates, and tell them to do the same.
Contact me directly via talk page or email about coordinating a chapter of "Student WP:Hornbook Editors" at your own school.

(You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)

3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 05:32, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rogers & Wells question

As a legal journalist I'm grateful for all your hard work creating and improving law firm pages. I note the statement on the Rogers & Wells page that it had the second largest litigation team in New York after Simpson Thacher. Can you provide a source for that? Thanks, ravcasleygera

UPDATE: Hi, I've had a pootle about on The Lawyer's website and I can't find it, but if you could have a quick look after Thanksgiving it'd be great. Don't let it get in the way of the turkey sandwiches. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ravcasleygera (talk • contribs) 16:04, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Shearman & Sterling pro bono work on behalf of Guantanamo detainees for deletion

A discussion has begun about whether the article Shearman & Sterling pro bono work on behalf of Guantanamo detainees, which you created or to which you contributed, should be deleted. While contributions are welcome, an article may be deleted if it is inconsistent with Wikipedia policies and guidelines for inclusion, explained in the deletion policy.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shearman & Sterling pro bono work on behalf of Guantanamo detainees until a consensus is reached, and you are welcome to contribute to the discussion.

You may edit the article during the discussion, including to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. brew crewer (yada, yada) 17:28, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen

The article Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Company fails WP:CORP

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Speedy deletion nomination of Gleiss Lutz

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Proposed deletion of Cuatrecasas

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The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (companies) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back. Thank you,

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Proposed deletion of Gleiss Lutz

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Proposed deletion of Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass

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Proposed deletion of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

The article Steptoe & Johnson PLLC has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (companies) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back. Thank you,

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:02, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Bonelli Erede Pappalardo

The article Bonelli Erede Pappalardo has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (companies) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back. Thank you,

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Nomination of Bonelli Erede Pappalardo for deletion

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ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
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Page Sponsor

Good morning,

I hope you are doing well. I am looking for a sponsor to create a Wikipedia page for an Atlanta based law firm, Morgan & DiSalvo LLC. Based on your editing history, you seemed like a good candidate to inquire about this task. If you are willing to help me, I have a draft text I can send your way.

Please let me know.

Thanks,

Jennifer Jkoon.mmc (talk) 15:01, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Chiomenti Studio Legale

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nothing here to indicate how this might meet WP:NCORP – references are all routine coverage of its routine business.

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