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SEC said to investigate firm run by 49er legends Lott, Barton
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether HRJ Capital LLC., a defunct investment firm run by former members of the San Francisco 49ers football team, misled investors as it struggled to stay solvent in 2008, according to four people with direct knowledge of the probe. HRJ, co-founded by Hall of Fame safety Ronnie Lott and All- Pro lineman Harris Barton in 1998, operated funds of funds.Contract work evolves with times
The stereotype of a contract lawyer is of an inexperienced attorney fresh out of law school sitting with a squad of other contractors in a windowless warehouse, clicking a "responsive" or "not responsive" button on a computer screen for hundreds of documents per hour. "Jobs for lawyers are tight, only a few get the 100K plus to start and the rest are fighting for the leftovers.Senators skeptical of contrite, forgetful Gonzales
THE SCANDAL surrounding the firing of eight U.S. attorneys took a climactic turn Thursday when one Republican Senate Judiciary Committee member called for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.After a morning of heavy scrutiny over Gonzales' role in the Dec. 7 firing of seven U.S. attorneys, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
Med-mal expert doesn't have chops to save suit
The Court of Appeals of Georgia has upheld the dismissal of a medical malpractice suit over the death of a 10-month-old boy, saying the physician who verified the plaintiffs' complaint did not have enough experience in the area of medicine at issue to be considered an expert. Page Powell (above), who represented Children's Healthcare, said, "There'd be a lot of risk" of juror sympathy for plaintiffs in case of 10-month-old's death.Suit filed after golf course cut from development plans
WHEN PERRY HOMES, a blighted and crime-infested public housing project in northwest Atlanta, was demolished in 2002, plans were already under way to build houses, apartments and a golf course in its place.Today, the area is home to the first stages of the multiphase, master-planned West Highlands, a 460-acre, mixed-income, mixed-use development blending single-family homes, condos and apartments-with no golf course.
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11th Circuit to mull right to counsel in asset seizure case
For six years, Kerri Kaley worked at a subsidiary of Johnson Johnson, selling the company's latest surgical innovations to hospitals. But she and about two dozen other salesmen of JJ's Ethicon Endosurgery got into trouble with federal authorities by selling inventory that hospitals no longer wanted on the gray market, an indictment charged.The ugly side of Big Law divorce
Cogs leave Big Firms every day without much fanfare. The automatic deposit of paychecks stops, their names are deleted from firm directories and their computers are reassigned to replacement Cogs. No biggie. But when an equity partner leaves and takes a few others along, the drama kicks into high gear. It is just not that simple to sever the ties that bind true "partners" to one another.In call to deregulate business, a global twist
Prominent figures in the U.S. are warning that the nation's financial markets have been handicapped by post-Enron regulatory overreach. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has made addressing the problem a signature political issue. A blue-ribbon committee chaired by former Bush economist Glenn Hubbard has echoed this sentiment, as does a report commissioned by Sen.Humane Society to pay critics' fees
By Aisha I. Jefferson, Staff ReporterRecent rulings that the Atlanta Humane Society must pay $150,000 in attorneys' fees to two women the society had sued for defamation means the state's anti-SLAPP statute has the proper amount of punch, the women's lawyers said."This was a big victory for free speech rights in Georgia.Trending Stories
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