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Associate Pay Rose at Many Southeast Law Firms, But Some Firms Still Pay Below Median

Alston & Bird and Morris Manning are among those with the highest starting pay for associates in 2023.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lin Wood Asks Judge to Dismiss Ex-Partners' Fraud Claim in Fee-Splitting Suit

Friday's hearing also saw the plaintiffs motion to join a new defendant in the action – Kentucky lawyer and Wood's colleague Tom McMurtry, co-counsel in the legal action at the root of the original fee-splitting agreement.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

'This Effectively Destroys an Entire Class of Claims': Ga. Court of Appeals Weighs In on Defective Road Litigation

"When [the Court of Appeals] notifies you you're going on the road, it's either because they think the case is interesting, or they think the lawyers are interesting or both," said Bondurant Mixson & Elmore attorney Robert Ashe.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Kilpatrick Helps Steer RaceTrac's Historic Purchase of Gulf Oil

Latham and Kilpatrick were legal advisers in a deal this week that is RaceTrac's largest acquisition in its 89-year history.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Despite Tort Reform, Marshall Dennehey Keeps Expanding Work with Insureds in Florida

"When the tort reform was percolating, I was already out there looking for folks to be sure that we can properly service our clients," said Alan Nash, shareholder at Marshall Dennehey in charge of its Fort Lauderdale casualty group. "We see litigation continuing to trend upward."
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Kozyak Leads Shareholder Class Action in Miami Against U.S. Century Bank Directors

"What we see lately is more of an effort to buy those local businesses by out-of-state people, who are actually moving here or temporarily moving here, for ulterior motives, with no intentions of growing roots here," said Jorge Piedra, a partner at Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Atlanta's Smith Currie Sees Competitive Advantage After Merger

The merger will create one of the top construction law and government contract-oriented firms in the U.S., a firm leader said.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Berger Singerman, Eyeing Central Florida's 'Unmet' Potential, Lands Nelson Mullins Bankruptcy Co-Chair

"Although it's a physical expansion for the firm into the Tampa, Orlando markets, it is not new territory for us," Berger Singerman managing partner Jordi Guso said. "Restructuring lawyers in our team have spent more time in the courtroom in the Middle District of Florida than they have in the Southern District of Florida."
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

A Supreme Court Win Led to a Reversal of This Litigation Team's Prior Loss

After Darren Penn and Mike Terry successfully argued on behalf of sexual abuse victims of the Catholic Church before Supreme Court of Georgia, the Court of Appeals reversed its position on one of their previously rejected cases.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

FTC Yanks Antitrust Complaint After Tobacco Giant Altria Parts Ways With Juul

The agency had called the companies' 2018 deal anti-competitive, in part because it included a provision requiring Altria to cease selling its own e-cigarettes.
2 minute read

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