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June 16, 2015 | Daily Report Online

When told she couldn't come to court, a white girl in a Southern town sneaked up to the courtroom's "colored" balcony in the 1930s to see her father defend an unpopular client.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

5 minute read

June 16, 2015 | Daily Report Online

For Ben F. Johnson III, there was no doubt he'd become a lawyer. "Some of my earliest memories are of my father taking me to court with him," he says.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

5 minute read

June 16, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Laughlin McDonald snagged his first job out of law school at a resort on Hilton Head Island, where the two previous summers he'd been hired to sing ballads at the resort's bar.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

5 minute read

June 16, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Born to a schoolteacher and a Baptist minister who moved around the rural South to preach, Oscar N. Persons had a plan. Inspired at age 10 by a chemistry set, he'd go to Georgia Tech, become a chemist, run a company.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

5 minute read

June 16, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Clay C. Long's best year in his professional life happened at his first law job, 52 years ago. He clerked for Justice Hugo Black the year Black wrote the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says states must provide lawyers for poor people charged with crimes.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

5 minute read

June 16, 2015 | Daily Report Online

The idea of throwing herself into bar activities didn't come quickly to Linda A. Klein, slated to become president-elect of the American Bar Association this year and president in 2016.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

5 minute read

June 16, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Looking through enormous windows from the office of Morris, Manning & Martin, one of the firm's deals is hard to miss: Tower Place, a 35-story multi-use development in Buckhead.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

4 minute read

May 22, 2015 | Daily Report Online

For the second time in less than one month, five innocent lives were lost on Georgia's Interstate 16 near Savannah when the driver of a tractor-trailer failed to stop—or even apply the brakes—before slamming into helpless drivers trapped in standstill traffic in front of them.

By Darren Penn | Special to the Daily Report

3 minute read

May 22, 2015 | Daily Report Online

For the second time in less than one month, five innocent lives were lost on Georgia's Interstate 16 near Savannah when the driver of a tractor-trailer failed to stop—or even apply the brakes—before slamming into helpless drivers trapped in standstill traffic in front of them.

By Darren Penn | Special to the Daily Report

3 minute read

May 07, 2015 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters | Special to the Daily Report

7 minute read