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11th Circuit: First Union Not to Blame for Theft
Legislature's typically hectic crossover day looks tame so far
ATLANTA AP - It's do or die. Make or break. Frenzied and frantic.However you want to put it, the Georgia Legislature is headed for crossover day on Tuesday - usually a hectic deadline for bills to pass in at least one chamber or be tossed aside until next session.But this time around, it could be less chaotic than usual.
Sex With Client Is Flirting With Disaster
The number of cases involving intimate relations between attorneys and their clients reflects a growing problem that threatens not only the participating parties but also their colleagues and law firm partners.
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.Trending Stories
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