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The Ins and Outs of Client Relationships
Getting business depends on knowing how in-house counsel chooses lawyers, says Maurice G. Jenkins, the former in-house counsel at General Motors. At least 10 seminars scheduled during the ABA's week-long annual meeting in Atlanta deal with rainmaking and with keeping clients happy. Jenkins says he hopes to teach in-house counsel how to better evaluate outside counsel and to give fledgling outside counsel a chance to ask questions and learn what clients want during a seminar scheduled for Monday.Suit Casts Shadow on Reporter Privilege
Rather than disclose a source, Sports Illustrated and Time Inc. choose to settle a defamation suit brought against them by former University of Alabama football coach Mike Price.War of the Words: Pleaded vs. Pled
As lawyers, we get to debate some of the most pressing questions of our time: The limits of Congress's commerce power; The reach of the Due Process Clause; "pleaded" versus "pled."A four-judge majority found no reason to meddle with New York's long-established interpretation of the in pari delicto doctrine.
Olsten Whistleblower's Share: $9.8M
Donald S. McLendon's career as a healthcare executive was stressful, he says, eventually ending when he accused his employer, Olsten Corp., of Medicare fraud. But as a result of a $41 million settlement with Olsten, the federal government will pay McLendon $9.8 million for his role as a whistleblower. And, if the government succeeds in a related case against hospital giant Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp., McLendon could collect tens of millions more.Ga. Bar, Chamber of Commerce Watch Governor on Judicial Raises
A proposal to raise salaries for Georgia's judges is receiving a bipartisan push, but what appeared to derail the idea earlier this year -- a lack of support from Gov. Sonny Perdue -- is a potential obstacle. The State Bar and the Georgia Chamber of Commerce back a 20 percent salary increase for jurists on the superior courts, the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. A letter the State Bar sent argues that higher salaries for judges is backed by Democrats, Republicans, lawyers and the business community.Class Action Status in Coke Case Survives First Test
A federal judge denied the Coca-Cola Co.'s efforts to short-circuit a class action race discrimination case. U.S. District Judge Richard W. Story said he could not dismiss the class action charges at this point in the three-month-old case because, for the purposes of Coke's motion, he had to assume the plaintiffs' allegations are true. Thus, Story ruled at the end of a 90-minute hearing, it would be unfair to dismiss the class allegations until preliminary discovery is completed.Trending Stories
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