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Lanier moves to Nelson Mullins
Commercial real estate lawyer T. Shawn Lanier has joined Nelson Mullins Riley Scarborough as a partner from DLA Piper. He brought a third-year associate, Paula C. Rothenberger, and his assistant, Jennifer Bleick, with him.Nelson Mullins recruited Lanier to establish a commercial real estate practice in its Atlanta office, said local managing partner Michael E.Gay marriage momentum stalls in liberal NY, NJ
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. AP - The state-to-state march to legalize gay marriage across the left-leaning Northeast has lost more momentum since a major setback three weeks ago at the ballot box in Maine.Since then, legislatures in New York and New Jersey have failed to schedule long-expected votes on bills to recognize the unions in those states.OSHA to fine Imperial Sugar $8.7M in deadly blast
SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - Federal officials proposed more than $8.7 million in fines Friday against Imperial Sugar Co. for violations at a Georgia plant where an explosion this year killed 13 people and at another plant in Louisiana.The fines would be the third-highest in the history of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and include $5 million for the explosion near Savannah and $3.Regulators shut 6 Ga banks, 1 in New York state
WASHINGTON AP - Regulators on Friday shut six banks in Georgia and a small bank in New York state, raising to 64 the number of federally insured banks to fail this year.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was appointed receiver of the banks: six bank subsidiaries of Security Bank Corp., based in Macon, Ga.; and Waterford Village Bank of Clarence, N.Companies 'go dark' to avoid SOX rules
THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT, enacted in 2002 in the wake of corporate scandals that rattled America's capital markets, was supposed to give more protection to investors.But the higher costs that accompany increased disclosure and stiffened internal controls appear to be driving a growing number of companies to simply withdraw from the major exchanges.Skinhead plot news sweeps suspect's Tenn. hometown
Fresh wind blows through Georgia-Pacific's law offices
By Philippa Maister, Staff Reporter Tye G. Darland, Georgia-Pacific Corp.'s new general counsel, is bringing a breeze from the Plains to the position he assumed after Koch Industries Inc. bought the paper products giant last year.But Darland explains that in Koch's home base of Wichita, Kan., a 40-mph gale would be considered a breeze.Supreme Court of Georgia calls Wilson sentence cruel and unusual'
High Court May Consider Gay Adoption Case
Tony [email protected] rights returns to the Supreme Court's agenda Jan. 7, at the justices' first private conference of the new year. The Florida gay adoption case, Lofton v. Secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Families, No. 04-478, is one of dozens of cases the Court will discuss at its conference with an eye toward granting or denying review.Trending Stories
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