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October 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

In The Trenches: Constangy expands footprint to California

Constangy, Brooks Smith has added Los Angeles to its expanding empire. After adding small offices in Chicago, Milwaukee and Greenville, S.C., earlier this year, the labor and employment boutique has formed a relationship with a California labor and employment firm, Landegger, Baron Lavenant, which has offices in Los Angeles and Ventura County.
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May 09, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Two Smith Gambrell partners open solo practices

Two partners have left Smith, Gambrell & Russell to open their own solo practices. David Minkin formed The Minkin Group in April, located in Midtown's Proscenium building at 1170 Peachtree St. N.E. Ed Konieczny also left in April to launch Edward C. Konieczny LLC and is practicing downtown from an office at plaintiffs firm Herman Gerel, where he worked before joining Smith Gambrell six years ago.
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August 06, 2001 | Law.com

Our Bodies, Our Genes

Six years ago, U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter, a New York Democrat, began her fight for a federal law to protect genetic privacy and forbid genetic discrimination. Now, her bill looks as though it may sail through Congress. What changed? Two events -- one in the halls of power in Washington and one in the nation's heartland -- fed the momentum for greater protection over our DNA.
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June 15, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Ex-K&S litigators reunite under own banner

Two former King Spalding tort litigators have reunited to start their own firm, Carroll Weiss. Jamie B. Carroll was a partner at King Spalding before leaving at the end of 2010 to open a solo tort defense practice. Michael L. Weiss, an associate who'd worked with Carroll, joined him from King Spalding on June 1 to form Carroll Weiss.
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June 04, 2008 | Law.com

Lessons From a Hotel Lobby: Ask Wise Questions Before Terminating Employees

In 1975, Michael Maslanka dropped out of college and worked as a hotel desk clerk. Maslanka is an employment lawyer now, but he's never forgotten the lessons he's learned from his hotel boss. Here's one of the lessons that will help corporate counsel when it comes to deciding whether to impose the equivalent of capital punishment in employment: termination. It starts with what Maslanka calls "principled compassion" and the questions to ask to find if termination is warranted.
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April 18, 2006 | Daily Report Online

Atlantans work Danish firm's $463M deal

By Andy Peters, Staff Reporter A team of lawyers from the Atlanta firm Welch Spell had to log tens of thousands of airplane miles to help a Danish company expand into the still-fertile business of selling penile implants.Since December, a Welch Spell team led by partners Laurance D. Pless, James A. Tramonte and Robert A. Sauro represented Coloplast A/S in its agreement to purchase two business lines from Mentor Corp.
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April 08, 2008 | Law.com

Mandatory Arbitration and Law Firms: a Very Delicate Balance

A recent wave of lawsuits against law firms brought by their attorneys has some firms looking to mandatory arbitration as a way to gain control over such disputes. But the mechanism for resolving those clashes may not prove a good fit for the peculiar workings of a law firm. Although the use of mandatory arbitration has grown among employers in general, some observers say that law firms may want to continue lagging behind the business trend embraced by many of their own clients.
6 minute read
December 17, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SAB's pro bono chief retires

One of the stalwarts of Atlanta's pro bono community, Charles T. "Charlie" Lester Jr., is retiring from Sutherland Asbill Brennan at the end of the year.Lester, 65, became the firm's first firmwide pro bono partner about six years ago after unofficially leading the firm's pro bono efforts for years.
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October 12, 2010 | Law.com

The Life and Death of the Corporate Alien Tort

Corporate alien tort came into the world as the presumed child of a 1995 2nd Circuit decision, but its birth was never confirmed by definitive appellate review. Now, the 2nd Circuit has declared the doctrine dead and lawyers who adopted it are in mourning. Originally conceived in the 18th century to protect foreign diplomats, the Alien Tort Statute was reinvented in 1980 as a vehicle to sue sovereign officials who had committed gross human rights abuses and soon was applied to non-state actors violating nations' laws.
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