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October 09, 2024 | Daily Business Review

Florida Law Firms Brace for Category 5 Hurricane Milton

Nearly all of Florida is bracing for Hurricane Milton, which forecasters anticipate to be one of the most destructive storms on record. Law firms…
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October 09, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Too Slow? Judge Investigated After Cases Drag On for Years

The judge's "conduct ... amounts to willful misconduct in office; a willful and persistent failure to perform the duties of office," according to the Judicial Qualifications Commission of Georgia charging document.
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October 09, 2024 | Law.com

Former UPS Workers Lodge Discrimination Suit for 'Systemic Racial Bias' in Workplace Culture

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in federal and state courts.
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October 09, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Lawsuit Seeks to Reopen Voter Registration in Ga. After Hurricane Helene

The federal lawsuit filed by the Georgia conference of the NAACP, the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda and the New Georgia Project seeks to have registration reopened through Oct. 14.
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October 08, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Atlanta Law Firm Joins Mansfield Effort for More Leadership Diversity

"Diversity is very important here. We want everybody to walk into the office every day knowing that they can be their full selves," said Julie Sebastian of Smith, Gambrell & Russell.
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October 08, 2024 | The Recorder

Clients 'No Longer Need to Be Referred Out': Womble and Lewis Roca Eye Merger Benefits

"We have had extreme difficulty representing our client base from other jurisdictions in their work in California," Lewis Roca managing partner Kenneth Van Winkle says.
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October 08, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Atlanta Midsize Firms Say Lawyer Business Development Programs' Gains Outweigh Costs

"We've found that providing this training before they become partners is most successful because they're motivated to get it right," said Christy Walsh of Drew Eckl & Farnham.
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October 08, 2024 | New York Law Journal

14-State Coalition Sues TikTok, Alleging Addictive Algorithms Trigger Mental Health Harms in Adolescents

The lawsuits allege TikTok violated state laws by claiming its platform is safe for young people, when the attorneys general believe that it is not. They say many young users are struggling with poor mental health and body image issues as a result of the platform's allegedly addictive features.
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October 08, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Beasley Allen Attorneys Launch Latest Class Action Against BioLab Following Chemical Leak

"This is not the first time that BioLab's negligence has exposed the surrounding community, and it is a shame that members of this community are suffering because of it," said plaintiff counsel Rhon Jones of Beasley Allen in Montgomery, Alabama.
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October 07, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Ga. High Court Restores Near-Ban on Abortions While State Appeals

With no explanation, the court said the state can't enforce a subsection of the law that reads: "Health records shall be available to the district attorney of the judicial circuit in which the act of abortion occurs or the woman upon whom an abortion is performed resides."
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