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Kilpatrick advises on $75M SPAC deal
SPACs have come a long way. Once a backwater of the MA world, special-purpose acquisition company deals are increasingly popular, and SPAC deal values can reach into the hundreds of millions, if not billions.One of the latest SPAC deals was handled by Kilpatrick Stockton partner W. Benjamin Barkley. The lawyer was counsel to Pro Brand International Inc.The Am Law 200 2010 — Five Am Law 100 Firms Move to the Second Hundred
Wells optimistic about residential real estate
Louise M. Wells took over the leadership of Morris, Manning Martin in January in the midst of the worst real estate bust to hit Atlanta in most lawyers' memory.It is a challenging time to be running a large law firm, but Wells is upbeat and entrepreneurial by nature-and no stranger to the ups and downs of the economy.In The Trenches: Swift Currie lawyers form workers' comp firm
SIX ATTORNEYS have left Swift Currie McGhee Hiers to form their own firm, David and Rosetti, which represents employers and insurance companies in workers' compensation litigation.The firm opened its doors May 1 at Peachtree Center.Kenneth A. David, the new firm's managing partner, said that it had been a dream for him, since he first started practicing law 14 years ago, to run his own firm.Alston boosts payments team as transactions go mobile
Paying for things has become more complicated as cash and checks have been augmented by credit, debit and stored-value cards, online payments and, now, transactions via mobile phones. As with many complicated things, lawyers are involved.Alston Bird has added five lawyers to its payment systems practice since February, for a total of 13.Miller & Billips lawyer starts own plaintiff's practice
PLAINTIFF'S LAWYER Alysa B. Freeman has left Miller Billips to start a solo practice in Dunwoody. "I've been lucky to work at excellent firms," she said. "I've gained a lot of knowledge and experience and I wanted to see if I could do this."Freeman, who represents plaintiffs in employment cases, has practiced law in Georgia since receiving her law degree from the Pennsylvania State University Law School in 1998.In The Trenches: Experts: Use niche marketing in job hunt
Lawyers seeking employment must have a Web presence, said speakers at a luncheon seminar for unemployed lawyers last week hosted by the State Bar of Georgia-but their ideas varied on the utility of social media for finding a job and developing clients.Lawyer and social media enthusiast David A. Barrett, who spoke remotely from Boston, advocated spreading one's name far and wide on the World Wide Web.Bounty Hunter Tobacco Suit Is Thrown Out
A LEGAL THEORY allowing bounty hunters to sue tobacco companies first dreamed up by a Washington lawyer and a Baltimore law professor is "imaginative," but ultimately does not hold water, Eastern District Judge Jack B. Weinstein has ruled.The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200
Ogletree, Deakins launches a new office in Stamford, Connecticut; McDermott adds two tax litigation attorneys in Chicago; and Proskauer brings on three partners and a special counsel in London. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to [email protected].Trending Stories
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