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November 28, 2005 |

CRM: Love It or Loathe It

Client relationship management software is taking the legal industry from an "eat what you kill" model to a collaborative, corporate one. More than any other legal technology, CRM software is a litmus test of whether or not firms understand that they must abandon outdated ways. Of course, even CRM software has its detractors. Lawyer Ellis Mirsky says, "It's just another example of a simple idea gone haywire because technogeeks can't resist creating a nuclear power plant when a simple campfire will do."
4 minute read
June 05, 2013 |

'Timing Is Everything' For Portnoy's Move

After five years running her own family law firm, Kathy Portnoy is merging it with one of Atlanta's most established domestic relations firms, Warner, Bates, McGough & McGinnis.
5 minute read
March 03, 2009 |

Fallout from Stanford may affect sale of health firm

The problems of the Stanford Financial Group-its chairman and two top executives have been accused of massive securities fraud-could complicate the sale of a health care software company represented by an Atlanta lawyer.Emageon Inc., a client of David A. Stockton of Kilpatrick Stockton, was set to close the $62 million sale of itself on Feb.
6 minute read
January 30, 2009 |

Ex-HealthSouth CEO fights settlement

Even as he sits in a federal prison, former HealthSouth Chief Executive Officer Richard Scrushy is fighting to protect his pocketbook from a securities fraud settlement approved by an Alabama federal judge in 2007.A panel at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta on Thursday heard Scrushy's arguments, along with those of AIG Global Investment Corp.
5 minute read
June 18, 2009 |

Panel rejects bids to kill settlement

The federal appeals court in Atlanta has rejected objections to the settlement of a securities fraud suit against HealthSouth.Former HealthSouth Chief Executive Officer Scrushy, who is serving a prison sentence for an unrelated bribery charge, had complained that the settlement was unfair to him because it cut off his legal defense funds and other benefits.
6 minute read
January 09, 2002 |

Tiptoeing Over Conflicts Landmines in Bankruptcies

Law firms are rushing to represent debtors in large bankruptcies, such as the Enron collapse, because of the potential for huge legal fees. But attorneys must pay careful attention to conflict of interest issues, because the court may deny compensation or order disgorgement of fees paid if at any time during the representation counsel was not disinterested or held an interest adverse to the estate.
8 minute read
August 17, 2011 |

Ballard Spahr hires first non-IP lawyer in Atlanta

The local office of Ballard Spahr has gained its first non-intellectual property lawyer, Christopher J. Willis, who joined as a partner from Rogers Hardin on August 1. Ballard Spahr, a 500-lawyer general practice firm based in Philadelphia, added an Atlanta office three years ago when it acquired IP boutique Needle Rosenberg.
5 minute read
September 14, 1999 |

Alabama Tort Reform Battle Turns Nastier

Alabama's courthouse battle over "tort reform," already the subject of three civil suits, has taken another nasty turn: the indictment of a trial lawyer for the alleged smearing of the lieutenant governor. The suit accuses an officer of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA) of fabricating a sex scandal to smear Lt. Governor Stephen R. Windom, reform's chief promoter, during the 1998 election campaign.
2 minute read

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