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October 21, 2005 |

Disbarred Lawyers Could Stay that Way

Don't pass go, collect $200 or practice law in California again. The State Bar's Scott Drexel says a proposed rule that would permanently disbar lawyers for committing certain offenses should be considered.
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October 09, 2008 |

Civil Rights Litigation

Ilann Margalit Maazel, a partner at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, writes: The qualified immunity defense exists, for better or for worse, to protect unlawful conduct, in order that public officials have some leeway to perform their public functions without fear of suit. But if public officials are to have leeway, that leeway should be tethered to something concrete, i.e., clearly established law, not to the views (however reasoned) of fellow public officials.
9 minute read
March 31, 2008 |

Going in-house no longer one-way

Until recently, it was usually a one-way trip from law firms to in-house counsel, but increasingly lawyers are finding that careers can go full circle. This is at least in part to the change in status of in-house lawyers. Lawyers no longer belief that the work is less demanding or that regular hours can be expected from in-house work.
4 minute read
December 06, 2005 |

SEC Chairman Urges Effort to Simplify Accounting Rules

For the second time in less than a month, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox has argued for the simplification of accounting rules, this time in a videotaped speech presented Monday to a conference of accountants. Cox blamed the recent corporate scandals in part on the complexity of the current system. He said the SEC is encouraging "a major national effort" to reduce the rules' complexity, with the participation of the accounting oversight board, the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the industry.
3 minute read
February 05, 1999 |

Atlanta Mayor Itching to Sue Gun Makers

Atlanta is expected this week to join other American cities that have sued the gun industry claiming that their products are unreasonably dangerous.
8 minute read
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February 18, 2002 |

Judicial Profile: Presiding Judge David Baime

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August 27, 2007 |

Holland & Knight Scholarship to Provide Tuition, Summer Associate Job

Holland & Knight has endowed a scholarship for second-year students at Florida A&M University's law school that will cover full tuition and guarantee the recipient a summer associate position with the firm. This year, the scholarship will pay $7,178 of the in-state tuition for a student Holland selects from the historically black university. "We hope this will give us a broader pool of lawyers to choose from to meet our goal in having a diverse law firm," partner Martha Barnett said.
2 minute read
September 27, 2007 |

Navigating a Turnaround

United Agri Products, once an underperforming unit of ConAgra Foods, is the largest independent distributor of chemicals, fertilizer and seed in the U.S. and Canada, with annual revenues of nearly $3 billion. GC Todd A. Suko came aboard in 2001 during a management shake-up to turn around a unit distracted by, among other ills, an SEC investigation into accounting irregularities. "There are not many opportunities for a lawyer to get into a turnaround situation, so I took a chance and went for it," Suko said.
5 minute read
May 10, 2013 |

3 men sentenced for illegal gun sales

Three men convicted of illegally selling guns were sentenced in federal court in Chattanooga on Thursday.
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June 05, 2003 |

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