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Troutman merges with D.C. firm
Troutman Sanders will merge with a 100-lawyer Washington firm, Ross, Dixon Bell, gaining offices on the West Coast and in Chicago. The deal, effective Jan. 1, will make Troutman Sanders a 750-lawyer firm, with about 1,700 total employees. Troutman's chairman, Robert W. Webb Jr., said it will double the size of the firm's Washington office, from 58 to 105 attorneys.Slow Economy Fails to Erode Rates, National Survey Shows
Ruth [email protected] again, despite the slumping economy, law firms' hourly billing rates have not decreased in the past year and in many instances have continued to inch up. According to information gathered as part of The National Law Journal's 2002 survey of the nation's 250 largest law firms, the faltering economy has not resulted in a downturn in rates.NY gunman's rambling, paranoid letter blames cops
MGA attempts to revive $1 billion antitrust case against Mattel
The manufacturer of the Bratz doll, seeking to revive its $1 billion antitrust lawsuit against Mattel Inc., has asserted that the Barbie maker's seven years of "baseless litigation" enabled it to maintain a monopoly in the fashion doll market and attempt to put MGA Entertainment Inc., its competitor, out of business.Walters dated Greenspan, rode with Castro, courted Lewinsky
I've never met Barbara Walters, though I once stumbled into her reflected light on a red carpet for a charity gala as she swept ahead of me in a swish of satin. In ''Audition,'' her memoir, Walters, now 76, describes how hard it was to grab the spotlight in an era when serious news could only be delivered in the measured tones of the male anchor.City must pay $3 million to airport shop owners
A FULTON COUNTY JURY on Thursday awarded $3.28 million to shop owners who claimed their landlords at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport should have lowered their rent in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.At issue was a 1995 lease between the city of Atlanta and WH Smith Airport Services Inc.Federal Circuit Vacates $1.8 Million Verdict Over Extraneous Evidence in Jury Room
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has vacated a $1.8 million jury verdict because of potential jury taint. In a unanimous multipronged ruling on Oct. 6, a Federal Circuit panel vacated a jury verdict of trade secrets misappropriation and breach of fiduciary duty in favor of weapons accessory maker Atlantic Research Marketing Systems Inc.Nineteen years later, Sullivan gets his day in court
By Greg Land More than 19 years after a young Atlanta woman was gunned down as she opened her front door to accept a box of long-stemmed pink roses, her former husband is slated to go to trial today, accused of arranging her murder.In the years since that morning of Jan. 17, 1987, when 35-year-old Lita Sullivan was left dying on the doorstep of her Buckhead townhouse, James Vincent Sullivan has trod a circuitous path across the globe.Trending Stories
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