Ann Woolner

March 09, 2006 | Daily Report Online

By Ann Woolner

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June 03, 2005 | Daily Report Online

Ann WoolnerBloomberg News ServiceIn a small room on the third floor of the U.S. Capitol, smiling senators faced cameras and crammed-in reporters to proudly announce they'd forced a cease-fire in the Senate. "We have kept the Republic,'' declared the white-haired West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, the senior member of the Senate.

By Ann Woolner

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September 12, 2005 | Daily Report Online

By Ann Woolner

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October 19, 2010 | Daily Report Online

For all the scandalous news about systemically sloppy foreclosure documentation, bankers are trying to reassure the public that no undeserved evictions resulted. "At the end of the day, the underlying substance was accurate," JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon told reporters on a conference call. "There's almost no chance that we've made a mistake.

By Ann Woolner

4 minute read

March 09, 2009 | Daily Report Online

The world is full of victims of American International Group Inc.'s bad judgment, whether they know it or not. AIG's push to market ever more exotic securities with ever decreasing attention to risk helped accelerate the economic tailspin felt around the world. For victims, count U.S. taxpayers, now propping up the collapsed insurance giant with a $150 billion package and another $30 billion sitting in the wings.

By Ann Woolner

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July 27, 2010 | Daily Report Online

A prison gate in Florida opened this week to free former newspaper magnate Conrad Black. The first white-collar convict helped by a new decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, Black won't be the last. The ruling isn't going to empty U.S. prisons of all ex-executives and public officials accused of cheating shareholders or taxpayers.

By Ann Woolner

4 minute read

March 07, 2012 | Daily Report Online

A shareholder lawyer told a Delaware judge at a midsummer court hearing two years ago that his team deserved $700,000 for work on a lawsuit in which his clients received nothing. Shareholders of BJ Services Co., an oilfield services company now owned by Baker Hughes Inc., claimed its sale to the former parent would undervalue their holdings.

By Ann Woolner, Phil Milford and Rodney Yap

16 minute read

August 23, 2013 | Daily Report Online

On July 22, local solo practitioner Wesley Woolf and Matthew Billips, of four-lawyer Atlanta employment litigation shop Billips & Benjamin, ducked out of the 90-degree heat in downtown Savannah and into the cool of a two-story law office across one of the city's iconic squares from the federal courthouse.

By Ann Woolner

18 minute read

September 19, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Hank Asher-high school dropout, cyberpioneer, friend to law enforcers, enemy to child predators, nemesis of privacy advocates, ex-cocaine smuggler-is back in the business of finding almost everything that's known about anyone in the U.S. Law enforcement applauds Asher for his help in catching child predators.

By Ann Woolner

15 minute read

August 22, 2013 | Daily Report Online

On July 22, local solo practitioner Wesley Woolf and Matthew Billips, of four-lawyer Atlanta employment litigation shop Billips & Benjamin, ducked out of the 90-degree heat in downtown Savannah, Georgia, and into the cool of a two-story law office across one of the city's iconic squares from the federal courthouse.

By Ann Woolner

18 minute read