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Big Tobacco snuffs out secondhand smoke suits
The tobacco industry is escaping some legal fires in the courtroom involving secondhand smoke litigation. Last month, cigarette makers racked up its latest victory in a series of lawsuits involving flight attendants who alleged that they developed cancer due to secondhand smoke on airplanes. Womble Carlyle's Jonathan Engram, who represents R.J. Reynolds, credits medical evidence for his client's wins.Environmental lawyer leaves K&S to join Womble firm
JIMMY F. KIRKLAND has joined Womble Carlyle Sandridge Rice as a partner in the environmental practice. He moves from King Spalding, where he was counsel. Kirkland had been at King Spalding since 1989 and before that spent 13 years as a manager of the emergency response team of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Environmental Protection Division.Deal Watch: K&S, Womble counsel mid-size bank launch
LIKE BOOKENDS, there are two types of banks in metro Atlanta. On the small side are small community institutions. Go bigger and one finds the super-regional and national banks. Now a client of King Spalding partner Paul A. Quirs and Womble Carlyle Sandridge Rice partner Steven S. Dunlevie is looking to stake a claim in the middle ground.Focusing on business development
Firms these days are increasingly hiring nonlawyers like Gigi Benson-Smith to help keep clients happy and win new ones. They are hiring business development directors to orchestrate client pitches. And a small number of firms are going further, hiring sales executives who accompany lawyers on pitches and assume responsibility for client relations.Skadden Takes Lead as Edwards Pleads Not Guilty to Campaign Finance Charges
Latest Batch of Office Openings Features Four Firms, Three Continents
In The Trenches: Firms' leaders head to China
ATLANTA LAWYERS JOINED Mayor Shirley Franklin yesterday on her business development trip to China with the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. They are: Robert W. Webb Jr., chairman and managing partner of Troutman Sanders; Robert E. Saudek, managing partner of Morris, Manning Martin; R. Mason Cargill of Jones Day; Guanming Fang of Womble Carlyle Sandridge Rice; Edward W.Big firms start slashing associate salaries
Washington law firms are cutting costs anywhere they can, and associate pay is no longer an exception. Seven Washington offices have slashed salaries; others are cutting pay for associates who don't hit their billable hours.Trending Stories
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