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From the 150 biggest players in the Washington legal market, ranked by head count.Powell Goldstein Dragged Back Into Malpractice Battle
When a federal judge in Alabama overturned a ruling by a bankruptcy judge last month, lawyers at the firm that used to be Powell Goldstein got dragged back into a complicated and hard-fought malpractice battle launched against them by the bankruptcy trustee for former client Verilink Inc. The trustee claims that the firm attempted to conceal documents that showed its lawyers took part in a series of civil transgressions perpetrated by Verilink's officers and directors that ultimately led to Verilink's bankruptcy.Mercury-Autism Fight Looms in Georgia
Georgia appears to be an early testing ground for litigation over the alleged connection between autism and the use of mercury in preservatives for children's vaccines. One suit already has bounced from Fayette County Superior Court to U.S. District Court and back to Fayette, where on Friday a dozen lawyers and a judge tried to negotiate a scheduling order opposed by an unlikely defendant: Georgia Power Co.Morrison & Foerster Chairman Plans Move to Manhattan
In a sign of the legal profession's growing convergence on New York, the chairman of San Francisco's largest law firm will relocate to Manhattan next month. Morrison & Foerster's Keith Wetmore says his move is intended to show the 1,025-lawyer firm's commitment to expanding its presence in the nation's financial capital. Though Morrison & Foerster is not the first California firm to have an East Coast-based leader, it's more unusual for firms to specifically relocate their top leaders.Smith Gambrell Opens German Office
Smith, Gambrell & Russell has opened a two-lawyer office in Frankfurt, Germany. Stephen M. Forte, the firm's managing partner, explained, "We've had a historic connection with Germany going back to the early '80s when we first started to focus on representation of German clients doing business in the U.S." He said Smith Gambrell's business base and European network has grown to a point where it made business sense for the firm to have a presence in a "major commercial center in Europe."Fen-Phen Trial is First of 49 in Fulton
Steven H. [email protected] his opening statement last week, J. Michael Papantonio told the jury that people who developed fatal heart conditions after taking the popular diet-drug combination known as fen-phen "died like a fish out of water."The comment came Wednesday in the first fen-phen trial in Fulton County State Court before Judge Penny Brown Reynolds.CNN: Anchor Let Go for Poor Performance, Not Race or Age
CNN is relying on written performance assessments and trial testimony to counter claims by a former anchor that the network declined to renew her contract because it wanted younger and ethnic on-air talent. One former supervisor testified that it was Marina Kolbe's lack of star quality, not her skin color or age, which led to the decision to let her go. A judicial order bars both sides from showing the jury on-air clips of Kolbe; both sides believed use of culled video clips would be unfair.Virginia High Court Thrust Into Political Swirl
All eyes are now on the Virginia Supreme Court in the high-stakes court fight over political redistricting.Trending Stories
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