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January 16, 2007 |

Brothers' Racketeering Suit Seeks to Bring Down PricewaterhouseCoopers in Georgia

Stiles and Sammy Kellett, two Atlanta brothers, sold a national nursing home conglomerate to Mariner Health Group in 1995. That transaction is the basis of a high-stakes trial accusing PricewaterhouseCoopers and Mariner corporate officers of fraud and theft by deception constituting racketeering. The Kelletts are seeking treble damages of nearly $400 million and want to block PricewaterhouseCoopers from doing business in Georgia. But are the brothers naive locals or greedy, sophisticated businessmen?
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April 23, 2007 |

Chart: Diversity Scorecard 2007

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July 25, 2006 |

Who's Behind the MBE?

As thousands of law graduates sit down for the Multistate Bar Examination today, little is known about the people who create the test.
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September 28, 2005 |

Ga. Hiring: Little Good News for Job Seekers

The Atlanta legal employment market has been slow for some time, and this fall is no different. Adding to problems caused by the sluggish economy, hurricane devastation has sent many established lawyers, recent law graduates and third-year students into other markets to compete for remaining jobs. The situation nationwide is similar, but with glimmers of hope, as hiring increases for some practice areas and attorneys in certain large markets see salary jumps.
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May 14, 1999 |

An Extraordinary Rebuke Starts Obscure Process for K&S Partner, Opponent

Last year, just 17 cases were sent to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' Committee on Lawyer Qualifications and Conduct -- essentially its own bar discipline arm -- and most were fairly innocuous cases of missed deadlines and local rule violations. But the federal appeals panel's disciplinary referral against one Ga. firm's partner and his opposing counsel plunges the two into an obscure policing process over more than just spilled milk.
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November 12, 2007 |

The 2007 NLJ 250

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July 28, 2006 |

Bar Examiners Craft Key to Lawyers' Fate

As nearly 50,000 law school grads tackled the Multistate Bar Examination this week, they may have faced the dreaded multiple-choice question that seems to have two correct answers. While the National Conference of Bar Examiners, which designs the bar exam, employs mainly law professors, attorneys and judges to draft the test, critics say it bears little relationship to the practice of law. But bar examiners say they pay painstaking attention to the test, knowing how much is riding on the results.
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