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McCalla Raymer's practice splits in two
A LARGE CHUNK of the real estate firm McCalla Raymer has broken off to form a new firm, Dickenson Gilroy, led by Jennifer L. Dickenson and Monica K. Gilroy. The two were joined by 15 other lawyers and 80 support staffers who left McCalla Raymer on May 1 to form the new firm. It will handle residential and commercial real estate closings and litigation, said Dickenson, who headed the closing practice at McCalla Raymer.
Atlanta Lawyers Win $1M Verdict
A trucking company that admitted its driver caused a fatal accident said that the $1.2 million a Florida jury found it should pay the victim's mother was "excessive and beyond any reasonable compensation."
Hot new legal hire of 2012: The pricing director
In a market in which in-house clients demand that outside firms lower costs - often by discounting rates - law firms worry about their profitability.In defamation suit, court rules for government
A federal appeals court in Washington on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a defamation suit for statements that Clinton administration officials reportedly made to the press to justify the missile attack against a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan in 1998. The plant owner, Salah Idris, who was represented by Jones Day, had alleged government officials concocted a story tying him and the plant, El-Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries Co.Pappy Does Gas Ads, Fuels an Ethics Debate
Jonathan [email protected] Paschal A. English Jr. was savvy and likable enough to become one of the final four contestants on the CBS reality show "Survivor: Marquesas."Now that "Pappy," as he was known on the show, is back on the Fayette County bench, a question has come up as to whether judicial ethics canons prevent him from cashing in on his newfound celebrity status.Lehman broker charged in insider trading case
NEW YORK AP - A former Lehman Brothers broker who gleaned tips about pending mergers from his wife, a partner at a high-powered public relations firm, was charged Thursday in a wide-ranging insider trading scheme that earned $4.8 million in profits for several people including a former Playboy model and two lawyers, authorities said.Public interest law careers shed second-class status
"It's important for my children to see me being fit"
Her fellow fitness camp buddies call her "Grandma," but not because she's old or in any way infirm. Dawn R. Smith, 47, who for five years was deputy director of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation and last month returned to private practice, can run and work out with the best of them since joining her in-town fitness group known as Fitwit, which also runs a foundation to boost the physicality of inner city youth.Trending Stories
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