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Powell Goldstein Forms Partnership With Lobbying Group
Powell Goldstein has formed a strategic partnership with lobbying group Massey & Bowers Public Affairs. The venture is further evidence that Atlanta's big law firms are systematically developing lobbying practices on the state level, either through building in-house practice groups or forging partnerships. Lobbying on the state level has become more important as the federal government shifts responsibilities and regulations from Washington, D.C., to the states.Meet Joia Johnson, GC and VP of RARE Hospitality
There's much more to the restaurant business than food. Just ask Joia Johnson, the GC of RARE Hospitality in Atlanta. Johnson, who's been with the company -- poised to become a billion-dollar business in 2006 -- for seven years, says restaurants are very much a real estate business. Here, she answers questions about challenges such as maximizing the efficiency of RARE's relatively small law department, juggling both GC and VP duties and keeping on top of the latest government regulations.Supremes Load Up On Employment Cases
Besides adding such high-profile issues as the constitutionality of lethal injection executions and voter ID laws to its docket, the U.S. Supreme Court ensured, through its latest grants of review, what is likely to be a "banner" year for labor and employment law.View more book results for the query "*"
Legal Community Diversity Must Remain a Priority
This month I began my 12th year at Duane Morris and my 32nd year as a member of the Philadelphia legal community. When I came to the bar, with very few exceptions, diversity of races did not exist in the large Philadelphia legal institutions.Mortgage applications climbed 2.7% last week on purchases
Mortgage applications in the U.S. rose last week to the highest level in three months, helped by gains in purchases and refinancing.Here's a question, and we don't mean it rhetorically: Does any baseball fan in America believe that Roger Clemens did not use steroids at some point during his 24-year career? Our guess is probably not, yet Clemens hasn't backed down on his quixotic quest to clear his name. This probably won't shock you, but it isn't going well. On Thursday, a Houston federal district court judge dismissed most of Clemens's defamation suit against Brian McNamee, the former trainer whose allegations that Clemens used steroids first appeared in the Mitchell Report.
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