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Former Georgia AG to Form Lobbying Firm
Over the four years since he left public office, former Georgia Attorney General Michael J. Bowers had remade himself into the ultimate outsider, suing state and local government with considerable success. But, with the ascent of Republicans to positions of state power, the Democrat-turned-Republican is now very much a political insider. He'll be trading on that status with a new venture, the lobbying firm of Watson Bowers.Before Tuesday, we confess, we didn't know anything about Texas businessman David McDavid or his legal battle with Turner Broadcasting System over the sale of the Atlanta Hawks and the Atlanta Thrashers, as well as operating rights to Phillips Arena. But after a state court jury awarded McDavid $316 million yesterday, we're doing our best to get up to speed.
2002 Associates Survey: From Mayer Brown to Wolf Block
The firm-by-firm breakdown of responses to the survey.We knew about MGA's turbulent history with Orrick and O'Melveny & Myers stemming from their work for the company in its sprawling litigation with Mattel over the Bratz doll brand. Skadden, meanwhile, appears to be at odds with MGA over a deal that would cap its fees in the Mattel case at $11 million.
The details of the case are almost as closely guarded as the secret recipe of Coke, but at stake was the price of hundreds of millions of pounds of aluminum.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to second-guess an appellate court's decision to revive an antitrust suit against a big swath of the magazine industry, handing a win to bankrupt magazine wholesaler Anderson News and its lawyers at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman and Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel.
Source Interlink, a magazine wholesaler, is on the ropes. But according to a suit filed by Source's lawyers at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, that's because a group of publishers, distributors, and wholesalers has plotted to run Source out of business. At a preliminary injuction hearing on Friday, Kasowitz will try to end the alleged conspiracy.
Latham & Watkins can proceed as lead trial counsel for a defendant in a massive antitrust class action, a Washington federal district trial judge ruled on Tuesday, denying a motion to disqualify the firm.
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