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November Election May Be Tipping Point for High Court
Judge strikes back after fast-food gaffe
SAYING A BANKRUPTCY JUDGE was "a few french fries short of a Happy Meal" may cost an out-of-state lawyer the ability to practice in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida. The comment already has cost Chicago-based McDermott Will Emery partner William P. Smith his client-Miami Beach's Mount Sinai Medical Center Miami Heart Institute.Free Fulton Probate Clinic Draws a Weekly Crowd
Meredith [email protected] County Probate Court's new legal clinic for people with questions about wills and estates has been a big hit, participants say. Confused fiduciaries the legal term for someone handling an estate can make an appointment with a seasoned probate lawyer for a free consultation at the Fulton County courthouse every Monday from 12:30 to 4:30 p.Nahmias key to overruling case
A batch of sharply split decisions at the Supreme Court of Georgia on Monday was highlighted by one in which Justice David E. Nahmias, the court's newest member, joined three other justices to rewrite a precedent the court made just 16 months ago.The court's decision to overrule part of its July 2008 decision in Chester v.
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How aides took control of DOJ hiring
Last week, in 140 detail-laden pages, the Justice Department's two top watchdogs laid out the tale of how the Bush DOJ used political litmus tests in an attempt to hire only those lawyers who would pursue a conservative agenda.The report places the blame for the political manipulation primarily on two top aides to then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: Monica Goodling, the White House liaison, and D.Media war on teen sex case gives way to high court
AFTER MONTHS OF frenzied legal maneuvering, name calling and media spinning, on Friday the highly publicized case of Genarlow Wilson lands squarely in the state's highest court.For more than a year, attorney B.J. Bernstein has been fighting the 10-year sentence levied on Wilson for receiving oral sex-described by a judge as apparently "voluntary"-from a 15-year-old girl when he was 17.In The Trenches: Smith Gambrell opens office in New York
Smith Gambrell Russell has opened a seven-lawyer New York office at a time when many firms with established Manhattan offices are finding the legal market there a treacherous place.Smith Gambrell's chairman, Stephen M. Forte, said the fallout in the New York market from the Wall Street financial crisis presents opportunities to a conservatively managed, midsize firm from Atlanta.States move to limit asbestos caseload
A GROWING NUMBER of states across the country are approving or considering medical-criteria laws in an attempt to control large numbers of asbestos or silica claims filed by people diagnosed with related diseases who have no physical impairment.Bills are awaiting governors' signatures in Kansas, South Carolina and Tennessee.Mattel says it has proof Bratz was born in Barbie's family
Mattel Inc., the world's biggest toymaker, may add as much as $500 million a year to its revenue by winning a copyright suit against MGA Entertainment Inc. over the Barbie doll's hip urban rival, Bratz. The maker of Matchbox cars, T.M.X. Elmo and Barbie is arguing before a California court this month that the pouty-lipped Bratz doll was conceived while designer Carter Bryant was a Mattel employee.Trending Stories
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