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August 31, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Williams made mark as leader, adviser

Neil Williams' death on Sunday from a heart attack was a shock to those who knew him. At 76, Williams was as engaged in life as ever, they said, after leading Alston & Bird's transition into a major U.S. law firm in the 1980s and 1990s.
8 minute read
June 26, 2012 | Law.com

Arizona Immigration Case a Boon to Three Firms

Snell & Wilmer, Ballard Spahr, and Washington, D.C.'s Bancroft have collectively reaped nearly $3 million in legal fees for their work defending the controversial Arizona immigration law that was the subject of a mixed U.S. Supreme Court decision Monday.
4 minute read
January 10, 2005 | Daily Report Online

Building a Better Bar

Early in her career at Littler Mendelson's Atlanta office, Dionysia Johnson-Massie knew she wanted to raise a family. She also knew that women like her still faced an age-old bias: At many firms, she says, lawyers wanting to have children often were not considered "partnership material."But at Littler Mendelson, she found a firm that responded to her need for a balanced life.
8 minute read
April 19, 2006 | Daily Report Online

Vying for eyes: Robinson's newspaper empire

By Andy Peters, Staff ReporterA series of recent transactions has put a company partially owned by Atlanta broadcasting and insurance magnate J. Mack Robinson squarely in the fray of competition for newspaper readers in the ring of suburbs surrounding Atlanta.What remains to be seen is whether Robinson's new company can survive in an industry that many financial analysts say is shrinking-newspaper publishing.
4 minute read
March 28, 2002 | Law.com

Hand-to-Hand Combat

Everybody wants a piece of Enron. A long list of creditors say the bankrupt company owes them billions. And an army of angry shareholders want compensation for the crippling losses they suffered. Those two sides are now gearing up to battle over a murky, but potentially deep, pool of Enron money: hundreds of millions of dollars in assets still held by the company's off-balance-sheet partnerships and other "special purpose entities."
7 minute read
May 24, 2002 | Law.com

Former AG to Lead Appeal of $16.6M Verdict for Georgia Librarians

With $16.6 million in Fulton County, Ga., tax dollars at stake, the county's hired former U.S. Attorney General Griffin B. Bell to appeal an award and jury finding that the county's library board chairman, co-chair and the library system director discriminated against seven white librarians. Bell is former President Jimmy Carter's U.S. attorney general and a former 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge.
4 minute read
October 22, 2003 | Daily Report Online

Suits Abound by Users Claiming Addiction to Painkiller OxyContin

Tim O'[email protected], N.J.-The debate triggered by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh's recent announcement that he was undergoing rehabilitation to kick an addiction to OxyContin did not surprise lawyers who have been battling over the painkiller drug since 2000. That's when the first suit was filed against OxyContin's manufacturer.
11 minute read
December 21, 2009 | Daily Report Online

2009 Newsmaker of the Year: Hanging on in the recession

Ashley M. Johnson never thought she'd be unemployed for seven months, or that she'd wind up with the type of job she has now-a job she once considered too risky."Everyone told me I would bounce back so fast," says Johnson, a top-of-the-class University of Georgia law grad who was laid off in June 2008 from a major Atlanta firm where she was a second-year associate in the private equity group.
22 minute read
August 14, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

No Easy Road to Oil and Gas Class Action Certification

The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) substantially expands federal diversity jurisdiction over multistate class actions, including those filed by holders of oil and gas royalty interests.
5 minute read
October 27, 2009 | Law.com

Ready, Set, Delay: Most Large Texas Firms Push Back Start Dates

First-year associates usually begin their full-time careers at Texas' largest firms as fall begins, but that's not the case this year. Most baby lawyers at BigTex firms are starting their careers later than usual. Some firms have delayed the start dates for first-year associates by just a few weeks, while other firms have delayed start dates by several months or even a year. And at least four of Texas' largest firms have not yet decided the starting salaries for their latest crop of first-year associates.
7 minute read

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