Ann Woolner

June 04, 2004 | Daily Report Online

By Ann Woolner

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January 06, 2011 | Daily Report Online

By Ann Woolner

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December 27, 2002 | Daily Report Online

Ann WoolnerPool some pennies found here with a nickel over there, and soon you have $160 million in interest. Use the interest to help the poor while the principal goes to its rightful owners, and you have magic. No one has lost a cent because the pennies and nickels are too small to produce interest by themselves. Everybody's happy, right Wrong.

By Ann Woolner

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November 30, 2004 | Daily Report Online

Ann [email protected] J. Trump bemoans the fact that even these days "There is a somewhat negative connotation" to that old word, bankruptcy. The sunny billionaire complained about that ridiculous negativity when I called him this week. I wanted to ask whether his casino company's latest trip to the, um, "B" court carries any lessons for his young acolytes.

By Ann Woolner

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June 09, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Good news for BP Plc and other oil, coal and chemical companies seeped out last week from New Orleans, barely noticed in the blanket coverage of the as-yet uncontrolled oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. Without having to prove they deserved to, the companies won a widely watched global warming lawsuit. If it weren't for the unrelated disaster along the Gulf Coast, you would see more cheering about it from the energy sector.

By Ann Woolner

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April 14, 2005 | Daily Report Online

It is tempting to join in the screaming match between Democrats and Republicans over judicial nominations, so important are the stakes and so outrageous are the claims. It would be easy, indeed, to take sides in the who-started-it argument and declare who has politicized judicial nominations the most. But it would be wrong.

By Ann Woolner

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January 06, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Suspicious investors who removed their money from Bernard Madoff's care before he pulled the bottom out from under his scheme have probably been congratulating themselves for their wisdom. Even those who recouped their principal only to plunge it into the stock market and watch it sink now seem like winners. At least they've still got a remnant of the original sum.

By Ann Woolner

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April 13, 2009 | Daily Report Online

I'm no hedge fund manager, but this much I know: If someone handling my clients' wealth coaches me on what to say to federal agents, I'm going to suspect the guy is doing something wrong. Bernard Madoff in 2005 instructed executives at his biggest client, Fairfield Greenwich Advisors in Connecticut, on how to handle Securities and Exchange Commission questions about him.

By Ann Woolner

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February 12, 2013 | Daily Report Online

The Georgia Supreme Court last week heard argument over a law firm's obligations to unhappy clients who seem headed toward a malpractice claim, sorting out which ethics rules, if any, apply to a later discovery dispute.

By Ann Woolner, Special to the Daily Report

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December 31, 2010 | Daily Report Online

For better and for worse, Julian Assange pushes limits. In his work life and his sex life, he stands at the border dividing legal conduct from criminality, though it's not clear which side of that border he occupies. U.S. officials are looking for a way to prosecute him for publishing secrets while women in Sweden say he crossed the line between consensual romps and rape.

By Ann Woolner

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