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July 31, 2008 |

Alston seals Calif. deal, adds 94 lawyers

Alston Bird's partnership on Wednesday approved the firm's expansion into California by acquiring a Los Angeles firm and an intellectual property practice in Silicon Valley. The two acquisitions give Alston almost 100 lawyers in California. The L.A. firm, Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava MacCuish, has 83 lawyers, and the IP group is the 11-lawyer Silicon Valley office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Feld.
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July 18, 2013 |

Sources: PSU Board Approved $60 Mil. for Settlements

The Penn State board of trustees has approved a number around $60 million to settle a majority of the claims made by people claiming convicted serial child molester Jerry Sandusky sexually abused them, sources have told The Legal.
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The Global Lawyer: Global Class Actions After Morrison
Publication Date: 2012-02-06
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The Global Lawyer last examined the broad impact of Morrison v. National Australia Bank in the U.S. federal courts, and the limited prospects for state law workarounds for world-spanning securities claims. Where else in the world might global securities class actions be filed? And could an international treaty someday govern them?

February 23, 2011 |

Daily Decision Service Alert: Vol. 20, No. 35 - Feb. 23, 2011

Daily decision alert.
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April 26, 2013 |

Feinberg Vows to Speed Boston Bombing Compensation

Compensation czar Kenneth Feinberg runs his New York and Washington alternative dispute resolution shop Feinberg Rozen when he's not handling payouts to victims of natural or man-made disasters.
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January 24, 2007 |

Businesses blast official's detainee spiel

IT'S A RARE day when law firms get called out for their pro bono work. But that's exactly what happened when Pentagon official Charles "Cully" Stimson rattled off a list of firms representing Guantanamo Bay detainees-including Atlanta firms Sutherland Asbill Brennan and Alston Bird-predicting that businesses would shun their outside counsel for making the companies foot terrorists' legal bills.
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April 05, 2010 |

Decisions

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August 26, 2011 |

IP counsel navigate the perils and promises of social media

If one message came out loud and clear at ALM's fourth Social Media: Risks & Rewards conference, it's that for corporations trying to tame social media, time is measured in dog years.
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September 17, 2007 |

Big Business

CLIMATE CHANGE, and the economic risks and opportunities it presents, is becoming such big business that even investment banks are taking notice.Earlier this year, Lehman Brothers released a broad-based, holistic report called The Business of Climate Change. Authored by Senior Economic Policy Adviser John Llewellyn, the report analyzes the business potential-and pitfalls-of a warming world.
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January 20, 2011 |

Felton Jenkins-an extraordinary man

Robert L. Steed Special to the Daily ReportA. Felton Jenkins Jr. was born on Jan. 18, 1941, in scenic Madison. He married the love of his life, Julie Green, in 1966 and this led to three grown children. Felton was a partner of mine at King Spalding and never met an unanswered challenge in the practice of law, in the service of state government, in higher education activities and in church and charitable enterprises.
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