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March 12, 2002 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected] Atlanta narrows its search for a city attorney, Augusta has given up its quest and decided to contract out the position. Augusta has opted to add three staff attorneys to its law department and renew its annual contract with an outside lawyer, James B. Wall, of Augusta's Burnside, Wall, Daniel, Ellison Revell.

By Julia Gray Smith

5 minute read

February 13, 2003 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected] J. Dole is adamant that he won't lobby for Alston Bird clients. But the former senator and senior GOP statesman promises to add a lot of clout to the firm by bringing in new clients and advising current ones. Dole will join Alston Bird's Washington, D.C., office as special counsel.

By Julia Gray Smith

4 minute read

October 01, 2002 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected] years after contentious litigation between the two attorneys, Dennis J. Gerschick has accused J. Allen Maines and his firm, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky Walker, of defaming him in an e-mail sent to seven partners. At issue in the case will be whether e-mail communication intended only for use within a law firm can be considered defamatory.

By Julia Gray Smith

6 minute read

January 13, 2004 | Daily Report Online

Julia Gray SmithSpecial to the Daily ReportFriends and colleagues of Thomas P. Stamps remember the attorney as a true gentleman and an effective litigator with an imposing physical presence.Stamps died on Christmas Eve after a battle with cancer. He was 51. His family will host a memorial reception from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Jan.

By Julia Gray Smith

4 minute read

July 30, 2003 | Daily Report Online

Julia Gray [email protected] dismissing a tenured professor mid-semester, John Marshall Law School has been slapped with a suit seeking $300,000 in damages.The suit also alleges the school gave students in that professor's class passing grades-without requiring them to take a final exam. The allegation comes at an awkward time, as John Marshall is seeking American Bar Association accreditation.

By Julia Gray Smith

6 minute read

April 17, 2003 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected] Q. Dobbs, who opened the legal recruiting firm Major, Hagen Africa here in 1992, has sold it and his interest in the company and struck out on his own. "My idea of what I wanted to do with the rest of my life and my career was juxtaposed to what my partners were doing," Dobbs said.

By Julia Gray Smith

8 minute read

January 22, 2002 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected] Carlyle Sandridge Rice's Atlanta office has made a lobbying connection by hiring Loretta A. Cecil, a former ATT lawyer and government relations specialist.Cecil, 44, joined Womble Jan. 14 after 17 years with ATT. Most recently she was the company's vice president of law and government affairs.

By Julia Gray Smith

7 minute read

December 10, 2002 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected] Sanders will ring in 2003 with a new lobbyist and a new marquee public affairs client, The Coca-Cola Co. Robert D. Leebern Jr., former chief of staff for U.S. Congressman C. Saxby Chambliss, will join the firm's public affairs group as a lobbyist in Washington. The group, formed in January by Troutman's other principal lobbyists, M.

By Julia Gray Smith

4 minute read

November 17, 2003 | Daily Report Online

Julia Gray SmithSpecial to the Daily ReportThe Atlanta Bar Association board is urging its membership to help relieve the city's financial woes by returning settlement proceeds from litigation over the lawyer occupation tax. The bar's board of directors passed a resolution on Oct. 23 that recognizes the city's financial problems.

By Julia Gray Smith

5 minute read

February 14, 2003 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected] Stockton has lost its North Carolina regulatory health-care group to Nelson Mullins Riley Scarborough. Five partners and five associates bolted from Kilpatrick this week, and the moves will give Columbia, S.C.-based Nelson Mullins new offices in Raleigh and Winston-Salem, N.C., as well as a significantly expanded health-care group.

By Julia Gray Smith

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