Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day in 1865 when slavery truly ended. President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Sept. 22, 1862, declaring that all enslaved people under Confederate control would be forever free. Unfortunately, it...
Every Memorial Day, we honor women and men who died while serving in the U.S military. With its origins during the Civil War as Decoration Day, our nation’s official observance of Memorial Day didn’t come until 1971. In the intervening years, we saw nearly a million...
Mother’s Day is a celebration and honoring of every mother’s sacrifice, generosity, and care for us. At SWMW Law, honoring mothers includes remembering how many of them have been victims of take-home asbestos exposure and continuing to advocate for...
When asked, “What keeps you up at night?” our partners and associates invariably say, “Our clients.” The stories clients share about their asbestos exposure, which sometimes went on for years, moves us to hold companies accountable for endangering the health and...
