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Exhibit A: Another iPad app for trial presentation
Exhibit A joins two other iPad apps for trial presentation, TrialPad and Evidence. While none of these apps are likely to replace trial presentation consultants or even software suites such as TrialDirector, they could be used effectively in the right scenario, such as a settlement conference, mediation, or even a small trial.Corrupt culture may be ticket to light sentence
Imagine Tony Soprano getting convicted and given a shorter prison sentence because he worked in a criminal environment. That would be getting it backward. A federal judge implied last week he may go easy on two brokers convicted of securities fraud because they worked within a "culture of corruption." He wasn't talking northern New Jersey.Southeastern Legal Foundation Taps Ex-AG Candidate
Meredith [email protected] L. Goessling, the 2002 Republican nominee for Georgia attorney general, is the new executive director of the Southeastern Legal Foundation.Since 2000 Goessling, 36, has been a solo practitioner, doing plaintiffs' work on cases relating to domestic violence and children. Before that, she spent seven years as a prosecutor in DeKalb, Cobb and Fulton counties.Open government reform bill crafted into its final form
China's war on inequality must begin with wages
CHINESE PREMIER Wen Jiabao's speech at this year's meeting of the country's largely symbolic legislature broke little new ground. Those who expected to hear more details of how China intends to ease its growing economic disparities and arrest its rapid environmental degradation must be disappointed. Much of what Wen stressed Monday at the National People's Congress in Beijing is already old hat.Georgia Republicans vote against project in McKinney's district
WASHINGTON AP - No state had more to gain than Georgia when Congress took up legislation last week designating almost a dozen areas across the country as national heritage sites.One of the sites, a rustic area known as Arabia Mountain, sits in the shadows of Atlanta's urban sprawl. Another, the proposed Gullah/Geechee heritage corridor, runs along the Georgia coast as it winds from the Carolinas to Florida.
Time to end the holiday tradition of outside counsel rate-increase letters
It's that most wonderful time of the year: when law firms and general counsel begin their annual antler bash over firm rate increase notices.British Air, Qantas merger may win plane discounts
A proposed merger between British Airways Plc and Qantas Airways Ltd. would help the combined carrier win larger discounts from Airbus SAS and Boeing Co., making it a stronger competitor to Singapore Airlines Ltd. and Dubai-based Emirates Airline. Qantas, BA and other airlines are under pressure to cut costs after the global recession drove down worldwide airline passenger traffic in September and October, the first decline since 2003.Parachute Failed; Man Wins $53M
Richmond [email protected] Atlanta sky diver who suffered massive injuries after his reserve parachute failed to open has won a $53 million judgment against the parachute's manufacturer, Precision Aerodynamics Inc.The Dunlap, Tenn.-based company did little to fend off James L. Rubio's suit however. Precision failed to answer the complaint and filed no briefs in the case.City proposal would corral 'free speech'
AFTER A MERIWETHER PREACHER proselytized and confronted attendees of the Atlanta Pride's gay rights festival last year, Pride organizers went to the city for help. The result is a proposal, initially backed by the mayor's office, that would allow private organizers of city-sanctioned events at parks and other outdoor venues to tell police to remove protesters to segregated "free speech zones.Trending Stories
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