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August 13, 2012 |

Atlanta police arrest 2 accused of identity theft

Two women walked into police precincts around Atlanta, made presentations about insurance benefit packages to groups of officers and walked out with applications filled with personal information in a brazen fraud plot, police said Monday.
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October 09, 2006 |

State high court race runs into real money

THIS YEAR'S RACE FOR a contested seat on the Supreme Court of Georgia is still not the most expensive appeals court race in state history. But with four weeks and one day before Election Day, Presiding Justice Carol W. Hunstein has nearly doubled the funds raised when now-Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears fought off a challenger in 2004.
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August 23, 2006 |

Copyright and the Contract Drafter

Kenneth A. Adams, a consultant and speaker on contract drafting at Adams Drafting, writes that it's safe to assume that those who work with contracts give nary a thought to the subject of copyright in contracts. But in many respects, contract drafting is ripe for change, and innovation could bring in its wake the need for copyright protection.
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May 24, 2007 |

Corporate Governance

David A. Katz, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Laura A. McIntosh, a consulting attorney for the firm, write that although stockholder meetings for the most part have been quieter this year, the two corporate governance issues receiving the most attention during the 2007 proxy season were stockholder proxy access and stockholder voting on executive compensation.
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March 20, 2006 |

Last year's bizarre cases

Selecting the strangest employment law cases for 2005 was an extremely daunting task. Choosing the top 10 examples of workplace wackiness proved virtually impossible. All in all, 2005 proved to be another banner year for this survey.
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May 19, 2011 |

How a Clear Social Media Policy Is a Company's Best Defense

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November 30, 2007 |

ISS Policies for 2008 Promote Narrower Director Discretion

ISS Governance Services recently updated its United States, Canadian, United Kingdom and international proxy voting policies for the 2008 proxy season. Attorneys David A. Katz and Laura A. McIntosh say the changes generally seek to limit the power of directors to exercise their supervisory role prescribed by state law and to pressure directors to defer to the will of stockholders on numerous issues. They predict the updated policies will drive a wedge further between directors and stockholders.
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May 07, 2009 |

Business Judgment Rule Could Derail Union Challenge to Compensation

The Service Employees International Union pension fund group issued demand letters late last month requesting that 29 financial companies in which it invested probe more than $5 billion in past executive bonus payments tied to the performance of derivatives and other financial instruments whose value has since plummeted. The letters also demanded that the companies revamp their executive compensation structures to link incentive pay to company performance. The SEIU says it hopes the companies, some of which have already altered their compensation programs, will work cooperatively, but the union will consider legal action against unresponsive companies.
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May 09, 2003 |

Clark Atlanta Settles Suit With Ex-GC

Clark Atlanta University has settled a breach-of-contract suit filed by its former general counsel, who claimed he was fired for objecting to alleged misconduct by the university's president and its trustees. The settlement leaves unresolved allegations made by CAU's former GC Michael A. Baskin of ethical lapses at CAU and the college's counterclaims that Baskin had engaged in "repeated professional misconduct."
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