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The rapid growth of Amazon and other online marketplaces has created a new ecosystem in which brands struggle to control their product sales. Brands now find their products sold by anonymous online sellers and face new challenges on an unprecedented scale. The eControl360 Summit is a first-of-its-kind event that will bring together thought leaders in each of the disciplines necessary to tackle these challenges and allow brands to retake control of their online sales.

Vorys announced that the firm’s Houston office has moved into the 2 Houston Center office tower. The firm’s new office is located on the 27th floor.

A record-setting group of Vorys attorneys, paralegals, staff, friends and family members marched in the 2019 pride parades held in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Houston.

Vorys is pleased to announce that the firm has been named a 2019 WILEF Gold Standard firm.

In the gig economy, workers make their living through irregular short-term assignments, typically on an independent contractor basis.

Vorys is pleased to welcome 17 summer associates to four of its offices.

Vorys announced that 30 of the firm’s attorneys have been recognized among the leading practitioners in the country in the 2019 edition of Chambers USA. 

Vorys announced that Jff Heller joined the firm as of counsel in the Houston office. Prior to joining Vorys, Heller served as the associate general counsel for labor and employment law as well as BP’s alternative energy businesses. He was an attorney at BP (and Amoco Corp.) for 28 years.

Vorys is pleased to announce that Jacinto Núñez, a partner in the Vorys Akron office and a member of the finance, energy and real estate group, has been selected to be a member of the 2019 class of Fellows, and will participate in a landmark program created for mid-career attorneys by the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) to identify, train, and advance the next generation of leaders in the legal profession.

Jackie Ford, a partner in the Vorys Houston office and member of the labor and employment group, was interviewed fror a story for WVTF titled “LG Fairfax Still on Leave as His Law Firm Investigates.”

Vorys is pleased to announce that Akilah Craig has been named a 2019 Texas Rising Star by Texas Super Lawyers magazine. Rising Stars were chosen by their peers as being among the most recognizable up-and-coming lawyers in Texas. Each year, the Rising Stars list recognizes 2.5 percent of attorneys with less than 10 years of legal experience in Texas.

Steve Browning, the managing partner of the Vorys Houston office, was recently awarded the 2019 Lexology Client Choice Award for banking in Texas.

The Vorys Diversity & Inclusion Committee has developed a fellowship program for highly motivated first-year law students who are members of a historically underrepresented racial or ethnic minority group.

Vorys was named a 2019 Best Law Firm nationally in 17 practice areas and a best metropolitan firm in 100 categories, among four Ohio metropolitan areas, Washington, D.C., Houston, Texas and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Jackie Ford, a partner in the Vorys Houston office and a member of the labor and employment group, was recently a guest on the MA Invincible Brand Podcast.

Vorys released the firm’s first Diversity & Inclusion Report.  The report celebrates the firm’s diversity and inclusion efforts and includes information regarding the many steps that Vorys is taking to ensure that the firm becomes even more diverse and inclusive.

Vorys is pleased to announce that Carey Jordan, Steve Rech and Dick Schwartz have been named to the 2018 Texas Super Lawyers List.

Jackie Ford, a partner in the Vorys Houston office and a member of the labor and employment group, was interviewed for a Houston Public Media (KUHF) story titled “Family of Man Killed in Workplace Shooting Sues Company for Negligence.”

One hundred and thirteen lawyers from Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America^® 2019.