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Deal Calls For 'Third Leg' Of Criminal Justice Reform
Before an audience of Georgia lawyers at the State Bar of Georgia annual meeting, Governor Nathan Deal laid out his next step in criminal justice reform: supporting convicts' ability to become productive members of society after they leave prison.
Interpreter rules raise concerns
Georgia court leaders are wrestling with demands by the federal government that interpreters be provided for free to litigants who don't speak English and economic realities that continue to shrink court budgets.At the root of the controversy is a letter that the U.S. Justice Department sent state chief justices and court administrators across the nation last year.Time Warner's $257M Bill Comes Due
Jonathan [email protected] roller-coaster ride of litigation between investors in the Six Flags Over Georgia theme park and Time Warner Entertainment Co. came to a screeching stop on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in the case, meaning Time Warner will have to pay a $257 million punitive damages award.
Case against historian dismissed
By Wendy Moses, Editorial InternA battery charge against former Emory University School of Law Professor David J. Garrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, was dropped March 3 at the request of the alleged victim.The request ended a three-and-a-half-year legal battle between Garrow and Gloria Mann, a former operations manager at the law school.Justice Harold Clarke personified the ideal of service
On behalf of the State Bar of Georgia, I am writing to express condolences to the family, colleagues and friends of former Chief Justice Harold G. Clarke of the Supreme Court of Georgia on his passing last week.Obama taps well-known players for key DOJ posts
President-elect Barack Obama began stocking the new Justice Department this week, announcing the nominations of four well-known players to key posts, including deputy attorney general, the department's No. 2 spot. That nod went to Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr's David Ogden, a former head of the department's Civil Division under President Bill Clinton who has been overseeing the DOJ transition work for Obama.Social Web sites help lawyers connect
Steven Weinberger, general counsel of Wisdom Natural Brands, boasted on an online social network last month that he saves money by drafting his own trademark applications before sending them to outside lawyers for review. Paul Escobar, the top lawyer at Cumberland Gulf Group of Companies, wrote back saying he, too, sometimes drafts legal documents to establish content and tone before outside counsel get their hands on them.Three join Fish & Richardson's new office
By Meredith Hobbs, Staff Reporter Fish Richardson has added two partners and an associate to its new Atlanta office. Tina Williams McKeon, a partner, joins from Needle Rosenberg and will lead the Atlanta office's life sciences practice. Lawrence A. Aaronson, a partner, joins from Woodcock Washburn and will lead the office's software and electrical patent prosecution practice.Groups sue to stop seismic oil exploration in Arctic seas
ANCHORAGE, Alaska AP - Alaska Native and environmental groups sued Monday to stop exploration by oil companies this summer in Arctic waters frequented by whales, seals and other marine species.The groups are challenging federal permits that allow Shell Oil Co. and BP PLC to search for oil and gas using powerful acoustic devices that have been shown, at times, to harm a variety of marine animals.Trending Stories
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