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How Alston & Bird Elbowed Its Way Into the Washington Market
Marie [email protected] M. "Rusty" Conner III had been a partner at Alston Bird's Atlanta office for about a year when he and his wife, eight months pregnant with their first child, packed up to start the firm's Washington outpost in 1990.Conner, only 33 years old at the time, was joining just one other lawyer.ABA's midyear meeting events tackle funding, jobs and race
Money, jobs and race are some of the big topics at the American Bar Association's midyear meeting, which convenes at the downtown Marriott Marquis in Atlanta today and runs through Feb. 14.High-powered lawyers and judges will address funding shortfalls for state courts and keeping clients happy with alternatives to billing by the hour at two featured panels.Legal advice doesn't make pill ads OK, FTC claims
A Subprime Primer: What Happened?
With the real estate downturn continuing, more loans are defaulting, and lenders are uncovering patterns of mortgage fraud. Particularly, lenders are finding that subprime loans are central not only to mortgage fraud schemes, but also to potential predatory lending predicated by loan originators. Attorney Linda S. Finley discusses how mortgage fraud, predatory lending and several other contributing factors, including good old-fashioned profit motive, combined to help create the subprime crisis.FOR RAINMAKER, HOSPITAL FIGHT TRUMPS PLANS
MEREDITH HOBBS [email protected] When Regina S. Molden left Alston Bird almost a year ago to start her own firm with four other big-firm refugees, she was fulfilling a long-held dream. Molden, a former associate in Alston's securities litigation group, billed the firm, Molden Holley Fergusson Thompson Heard, as the city's first African-American firm devoted exclusively to high-end corporate work.
Alston & Bird's Northern Strategy
Atlanta-based Alston & Bird is trying to lose its label as a regional firm � and its fast-growing D.C. office, led by Frank "Rusty" Conner III, is playing a crucial part in that strategy.Four Firms Grab Roles on Pair of Health Care Deals Totaling $1.4 Billion
The health care industry continued its recent run as a hub of transactional work Monday, as leading U.S. insurer WellPoint turned to Linklaters for counsel on its roughly $900 million purchase of contact lens retailer 1-800 Contacts from private equity firm Fenway Partners, while Universal Health Services tapped Cravath to advise on its $517 million acquisition of Ascend Health.Deal Watch: Delta to try new way to raise capital
With the global capital markets nearly in a coma, companies are looking at their options for boosting liquidity. For the airline industry, it appears, the current favored option for raising money has been so-called continuous offering programs.The latest airline to pull off such a deal is Delta Air Lines Inc., taking legal advice from Kilpatrick Stockton partner W.Deal Watch: Meltdown doesn't freeze Midtown project
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