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February 24, 2005 | Daily Report Online

Women Trial Lawyers Form Old Girls' Network

Meredith [email protected] plaintiffs' lawyers have started the Atlanta Trial Lawyer's Society, an invitation-only group for seasoned courtroom combatants. Although it sounds like an exclusive old boys' club, it's not. Rather, it's an exclusive old girls' club-the city's first for women trial lawyers.
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January 26, 2012 | Daily Report Online

A camp for kids with Tourette syndrome

When Joan B. Sasine's then-11-year-old daughter Hailey didn't recover from a cough, a specialist returned a disturbing diagnosis-Tourette syndrome."The cough just would not go away," recalled Sasine, 62, an environmental partner at Bryan Cave. "After a while, it went from a cough to a bark, like a seal bark, and very loud.
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June 26, 2008 | Daily Report Online

U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Second Amendment gun right

WASHINGTON AP - Americans can keep guns at home for self-defense, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in the justices' first-ever pronouncement on the meaning of gun rights under the Second Amendment.The court's 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia's ban on handguns. The decision went further than even the Bush administration wanted, but probably leaves most federal firearms restrictions intact.
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November 03, 2004 | Daily Report Online

Urge to Merge: More Firms Seeking Global Presence

Leigh [email protected] YORK-With a more-is-better philosophy, national practices increasingly want to lock arms with foreign law firms in mergers to create a global presence. If only it were that simple. Whether troubles arise from differences in management styles or pay structures, recruitment practices or even dress codes, transcontinental mergers can have super-sized portions of the problems found in domestic mergers.
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June 04, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Trademark lawyers help police Web

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June 01, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Wachovia to buy A.G. Edwards

CHARLOTTE, N.C AP - Wachovia, the nation's fourth-largest bank, said Thursday it would acquire A.G. Edwards for $6.8 billion in cash and stock in a deal to form the second-largest retail brokerage firm in the United States.The combined brokerage unit will operate as Wachovia Securities, headquartered in St. Louis, and will have more than 3,300 brokerage locations nationwide, more than $1.
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November 03, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Whistleblower recounts money problems at Petters

ST. PAUL, Minn. AP - A longtime aide to a Minnesota businessman accused of operating a $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme said Monday that he was struggling to find new money and hold off nervous investors by the time she went to federal prosecutors to report the alleged scheme.Deanna Coleman, 43, of Plymouth, was vice president of operations at Petters Co.
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March 22, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Free from prison, lawyers adjust to life

The four lawyers who ran Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes Lerach, the firm that got investors $45 billion from securities lawsuits against publicly traded companies, are reacquainting themselves with life on the outside now that they've left prison. "I am enjoying my freedom," Melvyn I. Weiss, 74, said in a phone interview from his apartment in Boca Raton, Fla.
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July 29, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Dr. J takes swing at golf business

The Doctor is in the house at Heritage Golf Club in Tucker. Julius "Dr. J" Erving, one of basketball's all-time greats, sits at a table in the club's restaurant. He has a great view overlooking the 18th green. It's a hot July day, but Heritage is buzzing with activity. Players fresh off the golf course gab about their rounds.
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January 23, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Project management may leave GCs with fewer surprises

Surprises may be overrated in general, and for a GC reporting to a CEO and a board of directors, they are rarely welcome-especially when it's time to present the monthly tab from outside counsel.The size and unpredictability of that expense has long prompted GCs to exercise alternative controls in purchasing outside legal services-discounts, flat fees, negotiated rates, smaller firms and outsourcing.
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