Gray

April 11, 2002 | Daily Report Online

By Julia Gray Smith

3 minute read

April 15, 2002 | Daily Report Online

Lisha A. Wheeler is the only candidate who appears ready to leave a lucrative partnership at a major law firm to serve as city attorney. Wheeler, 41, is a partner at Holland Knight and oversees the firm's public finance practices in Atlanta and Washington. She manages a small group of attorneys, paralegals and staff in HK's public finance practices in both cities.

By Julia Gray Smith

2 minute read

April 22, 2002 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected] Stockton has laid off 58 legal secretaries, 46 of them in Atlanta. The cuts, announced to employees April 8, represent about 19 percent of the firm's 300 legal secretaries. No attorneys were laid off.The move to reduce the secretarial staff began last October when the firm implemented a hiring freeze and offered voluntary sabbaticals for legal secretaries.

By Julia Gray Smith

3 minute read

April 15, 2002 | Daily Report Online

By Julia Gray Smith

2 minute read

October 30, 2001 | Law.com

Georgia's Office of Bar Admissions had good news for a record number -- 972 -- of law school graduates who opened their mailboxes Friday. The overall pass rate for July's Georgia bar exam was 80.5 percent, up from 74.9 percent in July 2000. The overall pass rate is the highest since February 1996, when the Office of Bar Admissions stopped allowing third-year law students to take the exam.

By Julia D. Gray

3 minute read

April 22, 2003 | Daily Report Online

and research. She specializes in state and local government law and plans to teach a land use course on growth management as well as a constitutional seminar, she said. The school will start a nationwide search for her replacement this fall, according to Ronald J. Henry, GSU's provost and vice president for academic affairs.

By Julia Gray Smith

2 minute read

August 24, 2000 | Law.com

By Jennifer L. Gray

3 minute read

June 23, 2003 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected] with its revenue and profit performance over the past decade, King Spalding's 2002 finances were lackluster.In four of the past five years, for example, the Daily Report Dozen's perpetually top-ranked firm posted at least a 15 percent yearly increase in revenue and a double-digit percentage increase in net income.

By Julia Gray Smith

3 minute read

May 31, 2002 | Daily Report Online

Julia D. [email protected] Shirley C. Franklin has tapped New Orleans Police Chief Richard J. Pennington as Atlanta's next top cop. "I believe we found the best man for the job," Franklin said at a Thursday news conference where she introduced Pennington and his wife, Rene. Pennington, 55, has worked in law enforcement his entire adult life, he said Thursday.

By Julia Gray Smith

2 minute read

June 22, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Since the Florida Supreme Court took away the obligation to act in good faith and deal fairly, concern is raised that insurance companies may see this as opportunity to hold property owners hostage in the midst of what is often prolonged and combative litigation, attorneys Michael Higer and Gray Rifkin write.

By Michael Higer and Gray Rifkin

4 minute read