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August 22, 2003 | Daily Report Online

Julia Gray [email protected] University of Georgia School of Law has enrolled a record number of black students in its incoming class of first-years. Of the 257 students in the Class of 2006, 38-or 14.8 percent-are black, a 3.7 percent increase over last year. Sixty-two students, or about 24 percent, in the Class of 2006 are minorities.

By Julia Gray Smith

6 minute read

January 16, 2003 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected] Public Interest Lawyers Fund has collected its first $5,500 for a program that would forgive education loan payments for most lawyers working in the public sector in Georgia.The General Assembly passed Senate Bill 465, the legislation creating the program, last April but didn't provide funding.

By Julia Gray Smith

6 minute read

June 26, 2001 | Law.com

Since 1995, law firms have rushed to register their names as trademarks. However, the trend has been slow to take off in Atlanta, where only four of the firms in a report last year have done so. Anthony B. Askew, a partner at Kilpatrick Stockton (which registered its name in 1998), says failing to register a name is the same as failing to protect any other intangible asset like a lease or partnership agreement.

By Julia D. Gray

5 minute read

January 15, 2002 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected] paralegal-turned-pet-sitter who embezzled more than $220,000 from her former law firm has been ordered to return the money and now faces a criminal investigation. The three-lawyer firm, Pendergast Blum, sued its former paralegal, Cress Osterman, on Dec. 19 in Fulton County. Chief Judge Elizabeth E.

By Julia Gray Smith

4 minute read

April 11, 2003 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected] 15 months after it lost a star litigator to Hunton Williams, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer Murphy now has seen two more partners leave for the Richmond-based firm's local office. Intellectual property litigators William M. Ragland Jr. and Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Morgan joined Hunton on Thursday.

By Julia Gray Smith

4 minute read

June 13, 2002 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected] Asbill Brennan has lured Malvern U. "Griff" Griffin III away from his Alston Bird partnership. Griffin, who turns 37 in two weeks, is a patent prosecution attorney and joins Sutherland as its only patent partner who specializes in electrical engineering and computer science.

By Julia Gray Smith

4 minute read

January 17, 2003 | Law.com

By Steven T. Catlett and Michael J. Gray

11 minute read

January 09, 2003 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected] George E. "Sonny" Perdue III has chosen Robert S. Highsmith Jr., a Holland Knight associate, as his deputy legal counsel. Highsmith, who has served as counsel to Perdue's transition team, will report to executive counsel Harold D. Melton, whom Perdue named last month.

By Julia Gray Smith

6 minute read

June 12, 2003 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected], Donelson, Bearman Caldwell's recent merger with Berkowitz, Lefkovits, Isom Kushner will give the six Baker, Donelson lawyers here a chance to sell work in Alabama. Last week, after 10 months of negotiations, Memphis, Tenn.-based Baker, Donelson merged with Berkowitz, Lefkovits, a 65-lawyer business and commercial law firm in Birmingham, Ala.

By Julia Gray Smith

5 minute read

June 23, 2003 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected] once-thriving rose of economic success began losing its bloom in 2000. Now, the recession finally has wormed its way into Atlanta law firms.For three years, local firms thrived-with a few exceptions-despite the economic drought that desiccated Silicon Valley and continues to be a thorn in the flesh of corporations nationwide.

By Julia Gray Smith

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