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June 17, 2003 | Law.com

EEOC Raps Federal Judge's Ruling in Race Case

The EEOC has urged the 11th Circuit to reinstate an employment discrimination case against Southern Co. and its subsidiary Georgia Power Co. The amicus brief, filed Friday, slammed a federal judge in Georgia, saying she ignored U.S. Supreme Court precedents by "effectively deciding the merits of the plaintiffs' claims of systemic race discrimination in the guise of denying class certification," rather than allowing a jury to do so.
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June 22, 1999 | Law.com

Growth, Billion-Dollar Cases Make '98 a Thoroughbred Year

12 Georgia-based firms produced revenue in excess of the value of the gross domestic product in at least 22 countries, according to statistics from the Information Please Almanac Web site at Infoplease.com.
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October 20, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Duane Morris team takes tourney

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October 15, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Justices Skeptical of Legal Fee Enhancements

The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are all lawyers, but most showed little empathy for their fellow attorneys Wednesday as they debated whether legal fee awards can be enhanced for superior performance or exceptional results under a federal fee-shifting statute.
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October 15, 2009 | Law.com

High Court Justices Doubt Lawyers Should Be Paid Extra for Winning

All the Supreme Court justices are lawyers, but most showed little empathy for their fellow attorneys on Wednesday as they debated whether legal fee awards can be enhanced for superior performance or exceptional results under a federal fee-shifting statute. Civil rights groups assert that the prospect of enhanced fees is necessary to attract quality representation in the litigation they pursue. But several justices seemed more worried about high legal fees than encouraging lawyers to do public-minded work.
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December 10, 2007 | Law.com

Ga. Bar, Chamber of Commerce Watch Governor on Judicial Raises

A proposal to raise salaries for Georgia's judges is receiving a bipartisan push, but what appeared to derail the idea earlier this year -- a lack of support from Gov. Sonny Perdue -- is a potential obstacle. The State Bar and the Georgia Chamber of Commerce back a 20 percent salary increase for jurists on the superior courts, the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. A letter the State Bar sent argues that higher salaries for judges is backed by Democrats, Republicans, lawyers and the business community.
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November 28, 2006 | Law.com

Kilpatrick Partner Turns Pro Bono Into a Practice

The number of big firms with a full-time lawyer coordinating pro bono efforts has shot up in the past few years. Debbie Segal became Kilpatrick Stockton's first full-time pro bono lawyer almost six years ago. Since then the firm's annual pro bono hours have almost tripled, from 7,900 hours in 2000 to 27,500 hours last year. Some big-firm lawyers worry that devoting too much time to pro bono work could hurt their firm economically, but Segal says just the opposite has happened at Kilpatrick.
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March 05, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Jenkens Blesses Branch Exodus, Lawyers Say

Dallas-based Jenkens & Gilchrist entered the waning days of February with offices in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Chicago and Los Angeles, but it was clear by March 1 that lawyers in those offices were leaving for other firms and most if not all of Jenkens' branches would close. At the same time, firm leaders continued negotiations on a deal to move many lawyers at the Dallas headquarters to Hunton & Williams.
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August 09, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

King & Spalding Ups Ante to Match Alston's Pay for First-Years

King & Spalding matched Alston & Bird's $15,000 increase in associate starting pay late Aug. 1 - but made no mention of pay increases for senior classes of associates.
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August 29, 2005 | New York Law Journal

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