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November 08, 2024 | The American Lawyer

Labor & Employment Firms Expect Demand Surge as Bosses Face Uncertainty Over Rules Changes

"You can draw some analogies between the current state and the landscape employers faced during the pandemic. Companies faced a great deal of uncertainty and had to make business decisions without knowing what the future would hold," Seyfarth Shaw chair and managing partner Lorie Almon said of her expectations for the coming Trump administration.

By Thomas Spigolon

6 minute read

November 07, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Georgia High Court Clarifies Time Limit for Lawyers' Breach-of-Contract Claims

But the Supreme Court of Georgia did not address a time limit for separate claims of legal malpractice, in a case stemming from a franchising dispute.

By Thomas Spigolon

6 minute read

November 07, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Southeast Firm Leaders Predict Stability, Growth in Second Trump Administration

"If he doesn't do anything radically different than what he did his first term, we're probably not looking at any tectonic shift in how the outlook is for law firms in the United States," said FisherBroyles founder Kevin Broyles.

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4 minute read

November 04, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Big Law Litigating, Volunteering Before Election Day in Southeast

"In a free society, the [election] process is more important than the outcome," said Dentons partner Ed Lindsey, who sits on the board of the nonpartisan Election Officials Legal Defense Network.

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6 minute read

October 31, 2024 | Daily Report Online

University of Georgia School of Law Finds Next Dean on Its Own Faculty

The hiring of Usha R. Rodrigues follows a nationwide search conducted with the assistance of a 15-person advisory committee.

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3 minute read

October 31, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Kilpatrick Names 10 New Partners for 2025, Favoring Atlanta, Seattle

All but one of the 2025 partners are women, and they practice in the areas of trademark and patent litigation, complex commercial litigation and technology transactions.

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4 minute read

October 30, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Georgia Big Law Lawyers Overwhelmingly Backing Harris With Dollars in Final Days

More than 100 Georgia-based lawyers from Am Law 100 and Second Hundred firms have contributed to the Harris campaign since Aug. 1.

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5 minute read

October 29, 2024 | Daily Report Online

On the Move: Morris Manning Labor Lawyer Latest to Join Pierson Ferdinand

Butler Snow commercial litigator moves to Baker Donelson in Nashville; four-lawyer health care team joins Burr & Forman in Charleston.

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5 minute read

October 28, 2024 | New York Law Journal

King & Spalding Adds Veteran Antitrust Litigator From White & Case in New York

Ross Elfand spent the last 18 years at White & Case, where he worked his way up from associate to partner.

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3 minute read

October 28, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Clients, Not Counsel, Have Most To Gain from Georgia Tax Court, Lawyer Predicts

The proposed court would ease filing of appeals of state tax decisions but won't immediately increase demand for tax lawyers' services, one attorney says.

By Thomas Spigolon

6 minute read