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January 15, 2001 | Law.com

Atlanta's Smith, Gambrell & Russell doubled the size of its health care practice group by acquiring a five-lawyer boutique, the McDowell Law Group. In its New York office, Atlanta-based King & Spalding added four partners; the office has grown by nearly 50 percent last year. Also from the Fulton County Daily Report, two associates at Atlanta's Parks, Chesin, Walbert & Miller left to start their own firm.

By Julia D. Gray

5 minute read

February 06, 2001 | Law.com

Atlanta's Smith, Currie & Hancock merged with two construction boutiques: Smith & Fleming and Florida's Cummings & Snyder. Smith Currie's Thomas J. Kelleher Jr. predicts the addition will boost the firm's revenue by about 20 percent. Also, IP lawyer William H. Brewster will take over as managing partner at Kilpatrick Stockton; and Associates' Campaign for Legal Services reports funds raised by Atlanta lawyers.

By Julia D. Gray

6 minute read

February 21, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

Litigation partners Joseph D. Wargo, J. Scott Carr, Michael D. Kabat and Michael S. French took an of counsel attorney and five associates with them to Duane Morris, which opened its Atlanta office in September 2000 with four lawyers. It now has 13 with the recent arrivals as one of the original partners to the office left the firm for the business world last year.

By Julia Gray and Jeff Blumenthal

3 minute read

September 24, 2001 | Law.com

Should this year's incoming first-year associates be paid more than their counterparts last year, when salaries at some firms rose an incredible 25 percent? No, say most Georgia legal employers, and that's their final answer. Why? Thanks to the economic downturn and the lack of competition in other sectors for fresh legal talent, they don't have to up the ante.

By Janet L. Conley and Julia D. Gray

7 minute read

July 17, 2001 | Law.com

Peter B. Glass and Ugo F. Ippolito, two of five lawyers who opened the Atlanta office of Miller & Martin in 1997, resigned after one of the lawyers' clients announced it was being bought by Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc., another of the firm's major clients. Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Miller & Martin represents CCE in Atlanta, and bottling company Herb Coca-Cola is Ippolito's own long-time client.

By Julia D. Gray

5 minute read

April 19, 2002 | New York Law Journal

ITH A NOTABLE exception, there has been a significant downturn in M&A deal flow: the value of announced deals in 2001 was less than half that in 2000. This exception is M&A in bankruptcy, meaning the acquisition by purchasers of companies, or parts of companies, in bankruptcy cases. Nationwide, business bankruptcy filings in 2001 were up 13 percent compared with 2000, and in the Southern District of New York, the increase in the same period was substantially greater more than 55 percent. With such a substan

By Sandy K. Feldman, William F. Gray, Jr. And Darien G. Leung

21 minute read

March 04, 2003 | Law.com

Three years after Atlanta-based Kilpatrick Stockton opened a Miami office and announced plans to stock it with lawyers, management has closed the doors. Personnel were notified late last year that the office would close on Dec. 31. The office, which opened with high hopes for technology, Latin American business and extended service for existing clients, never grew to more than about 15 lawyers.

By Tony Doris and Julia D. Gray

6 minute read

September 27, 2002 | Law.com

Nineteen of King & Spalding's 82 summer associates in Atlanta didn't get offers to join the firm, breaking a six-year trend in which almost all of its summers were invited to stay. But the firm said the longer list of uninvited young lawyers doesn't reflect a more conservative hiring posture. Actually, the firm made more hiring offers than usual, but drew from a larger summer class.

By Julia D. Gray

5 minute read

October 13, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

With its genesis in 1997 �- when the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure were amended adding Rule 166a(i) and the Texas Supreme Court issued the Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals v. Havner opinion �- a new and significant trend has been emerging in toxic-tort litigation in Texas: the successful challenge of causation evidence.

By Richard O. Faulk, John S. Gray and Diana L. Panian

6 minute read

May 03, 2001 | Law.com

Long Aldridge & Norman and Winstead Sechrest & Minick have retained consultants Hildebrandt International to guide them through merger discussions. News of the Dallas-Atlanta courtship appeared in papers this week, which may have been the first many Long Aldridge lawyers heard about the deal. Long Aldridge's Jeffrey K. Haidet confirmed the possibility of a transaction, but denied the possibility of being "acquired."

By Julia D. Gray

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