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December 23, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Most New Eversheds Sutherland US Partners Are in Atlanta

Global firm elects 10 new U.S. partners in three cities and six practice areas.
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December 23, 2024 | Daily Report Online

'Fulfilled Her Purpose on the Court': Presiding Judge M. Yvette Miller Is 'Ready for a New Challenge'

After 25 years of service to the Georgia Court of Appeals, Presiding Judge M. Yvette Miller will retire from the intermediate appellate bench when her fourth term of office expires on Dec. 31. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Report, Miller said she'd "fulfilled her purpose on the court," before revealing that she's "ready for a new challenge."
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December 23, 2024 | National Law Journal

A Look Back at High-Profile Hires in Big Law From Federal Government

"One of the biggest ones I've ever seen, probably the biggest," said one recruiter about the outpouring of government lawyers into the job market this year.
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December 20, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Husch Blackwell, Foley Among Law Firms Opening Southeast Offices This Year

Southeast-founded firms also expanded into Texas, Chicago and New York.
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December 20, 2024 | Daily Report Online

On the Move: Hunton Andrews Kurth Practice Leader Named Charlotte Managing Partner

Meanwhile, Polsinelli added managed care litigation expertise to its team in Nashville.
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December 20, 2024 | National Law Journal

Paul Weiss’ Shanmugam Joins 11th Circuit Fight Over False Claims Act’s Constitutionality

In a decision last September, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Mizelle ruled that the FCA’s qui tam provision—which allows citizens, referred to as “relators,” to file suits on the United States' behalf against those who have allegedly defrauded the government—violates Article II of the U.S. Constitution.
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December 20, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Atlanta Attorneys Rely on Google Earth, YouTube for Evidence in $6M Faulty Guardrail Settlement

When a mother fatally fell over a guardrail at an Atlanta train station in February 2020, an initial police report was used as a basis to charge her boyfriend with murder for supposedly pushing her off an overpass. However, attorneys representing her daughter knew there was more to the story.
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December 20, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Supreme Court of Georgia Disbars 1

The court issued one attorney discipline Friday.
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December 20, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Roster Updated: Judicial Nominating Commission of Georgia Overhauls Membership

Ahead of the new year, Gov. Brian Kemp has reconstituted the Judicial Nominating Commission for the State of Georgia. In an executive order issued Friday, Kemp named new leadership who'll oversee the 38-member judicial watchdog agency.
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December 20, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Vandy QB Wins Injunction Allowing Him to Play D-I Football in 2025

Pavia, who filed his lawsuit seeking an additional season in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee in Nashville, has applied to Vanderbilt's masters program for legal studies starting in January in case he won the injunction.
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