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Attorneys see growth in move to private equity
SEAN DOHERTY WAS a 36-year-old associate at Ropes Gray when he got a job offer from the private equity firm Bain Capital in 2005. Doherty was a deal lawyer, which was important to Bain executives, but they weren't looking for someone to advise them on deals. Bain had decided, after 21 years in business, that it was time to hire its first in-house lawyer.Report: Expedia dodged taxes owed to state and local governments across the country
Expedia, one of the nation's largest online travel reservation companies, has demonstrated "a conscious and deliberate effort ... in violation of state and local law" to avoid paying taxes it owes to state and local governments across the country for its online hotel and motel bookings, according to a report unsealed by a judge in Columbus.
Rosa Parks' Lawyer Recalls 'Eye Of Storm'
On his way home from Washington where he had attended the commemoration of the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray—one of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s first lawyers—reminded an Atlanta audience Thursday that the movement's often overlooked attorneys ended legal segregation in the South.Big ideas and even bigger sales
If Jim Cramer, the button-mashing circus barker of the financial world, had his way, preschoolers would be tuning in to his money-management show. In ''Jim Cramer's Stay Mad for Life'' $26, which is just out, Cramer suggests buying your tyke Hasbro, Disney and Gymboree stock: ''I would buy one share of these the moment your child is born.Rabbi's startup rewards moms for watching ads, playing games
When Tiffany Ivanovsky isn't taking care of her seven children or working as a director of a Christian preschool in The Woodlands, Texas, she's writing about shopping deals for parents on her blog, MyLitter.com. While unearthing bargains for her 300,000-plus monthly readers, Ivanovsky, 36, clips coupons for her own family, too, using a rewards site called Swagbucks.Umpire decides who's out, safe in World Series, stock
Tom Hallion has been fielding calls from panicked investors looking for someone to blame for the shrinking value of their portfolios. The yelling doesn't bother the Morgan Keegan Inc. broker. After all, he's a Major League Baseball umpire. In the last month, Hallion has watched historic drops and record rallies in the stock market, while umpiring in the World Series for the first time.Home run king Barry Bonds indicted on perjury, obstruction charges
SAN FRANCISCO AP - Barry Bonds was indicted Thursday for perjury and obstruction of justice, charged with lying when he told a federal grand jury that he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs.The indictment unsealed Thursday against baseball's home-run king culminated a four-year investigation into steroid use by elite athletes.Investors stuck on losing end when capital is raised
Financial company shareholders must feel like second-class citizens now, given how they are being treated as some banks raise capital.It's bad enough that investors in National City Corp. and Washington Mutual Inc. have seen their stock holdings plunge in value and dividends crimped because of the huge losses caused by the housing slump and credit crisis.In The Trenches: Knowles leaving K&S to return to Glaxo
SHERRY M. KNOWLES is leaving King Spalding, where she is a partner, for GlaxoSmithKline, where she will become the global head of intellectual property and a senior vice president in September. She replaces David Roberts, who is retiring.Knowles will have offices in Philadelphia and London but will continue to reside in Atlanta.
LawJam 2012. Marshall Seese, playing music with abandon
R&B, Inc. and Marshall Seese and the Abandoned are the seventh and eighth of eight lawyer bands to be profiled in the Daily Report. The bands will compete at LawJam 2012 - Atlanta's third annual battle of the lawyer bands - Saturday at the Variety Playhouse from 7 p.m. to midnight. Proceeds benefit the Atlanta Bar Foundation's charitable projects and pro bono legal service providers. Tickets can be purchased online at www.variety-playhouse.com.Trending Stories
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