Meredith Hobbs

August 16, 2005 | Law.com

Among the approximately 250 attorneys who have volunteered for the unusual pro bono project of representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay are four Atlanta attorneys who went to Cuba this summer to meet with their clients: five Yemeni men captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the fall of 2001. The clients had trouble trusting the attorneys, believing they were military interrogators posing as lawyers. And the lawyers had to trust the military with matters typically considered attorney-client privilege.

By Meredith Hobbs

11 minute read

September 15, 2005 | Law.com

Georgia Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears is trying to make things easier for hurricane-displaced lawyers who want to start a practice in Georgia. She has asked her counterparts in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to change their rules so that lawyers from those states could get a State Bar of Georgia license in as little as eight weeks. Right now, such lawyers can practice in Georgia temporarily, but must pass the state bar exam to work in Georgia permanently -- a process that takes at least nine months.

By Meredith Hobbs

4 minute read

June 12, 2006 | Law.com

Stephen Bright is trading in running the Southern Center for Human Rights so he can focus more on full-time lawyering for the prison rights group and his teaching of a capital-punishment course at Yale. As a new movie comes out with a chronicle of the efforts of Bright and other Southern Center lawyers to save death row clients, Bright reflects on 24 years of suing jails -- for a salary of less than $40,000 a year -- and vows to stop "only if all the injustices have been corrected."

By Meredith Hobbs

9 minute read

December 04, 2007 | National Law Journal

Lizanne Thomas will become the new leader of Jones Day's Atlanta office. She will replace George T. Manning, the partner-in-charge for Atlanta since 2000, who is moving to Dallas to run the firm's office there. "I view my mission as, primarily, vision and growth," says Thomas, who joins a very small group of women in Atlanta running offices of major law firms. She forecasts that finance and restructuring practitioners will be in hot demand over the next few years.

By Meredith Hobbs

6 minute read

March 19, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Meredith Hobbs

6 minute read

September 26, 2007 | National Law Journal

Arnall Golden Gregory has elected Glenn Hendrix as the firm's new managing partner. He will take over in January from William Kitchens, who has led the 130-lawyer firm for 12 years. Hendrix is a litigator like Kitchens, practicing health care and international law, including international arbitration. He has spent his entire career at the firm, joining in 1985 after receiving his law degree from Emory University Law School. Hendrix says he wants to grow the firm, which could mean adding offices.

By Meredith Hobbs

6 minute read

November 27, 2006 | National Law Journal

After a 17-year hiatus, employment litigator John F. Wymer III has returned to Paul Hastings. He joined the firm as a partner last week from King & Spalding, where he had practiced since 2000. Paul Hastings' Atlanta managing partner, Philip J. Marzetti, said the firm had been trying to persuade Wymer to return for at least three years. Wymer said he finally decided to return in part due to Paul Hastings' "magnificent footprint" -- especially in California, where employment trends generally originate.

By Meredith Hobbs

3 minute read

January 10, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

Can a high-profile plaintiffs attorney who's used to working solo be happy in a big firm? Lin Wood Jr., a celebrity plaintiffs attorney who has represented John and Patsy Ramsey and Gary Condit, thinks so. Wood, who began working for Powell Goldstein on Jan. 1, said giving up his solo practice won't cramp his style. In the past five years, Wood has devoted half of his time to defense work, including complex business litigation, an area of law that he will continue to focus on at PoGo.

By Meredith Hobbs

6 minute read

February 08, 2007 | Law.com

Martin R. Tilson Jr. has left Atlanta's Kilpatrick Stockton to join Burr & Forman as the partner in charge for its Atlanta office. Tilson, who once headed Kilpatrick's technology practice, is a corporate attorney who has handled a lot of technology deals. He is on the boards of the Technology Association of Georgia and Southeast BIO, a trade group that promotes the life sciences industry in the region. Kilpatrick Stockton saw the departure of five other attorneys earlier this week.

By Meredith Hobbs

2 minute read