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Lord, Bissell Elects First Black Female Chief in Atlanta
Meredith [email protected], Bissell Brook has elected Corliss Scroggins Lawson partner-in-charge of the firm's Atlanta office. She becomes the first African-American woman to head the Atlanta office of a major firm.Lawson succeeds Michael J. Athans, who left in April to form Fields, Howell, Athans McLaughlin.Some lawyers leave civilian life for Iraq
TEN DAYS AFTER Haynes and Boone partner Andrew Fono learned he was called to active duty, he turned his environmental litigation docket over to his partners, packed up his office in Houston and prepared for pre-deployment training.Fono, a judge advocate in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, doesn't know exactly when the battalion he is training with will be sent to Iraq, although he says it will be in late summer or early fall.Federal Judge Orders County to Fix 'Disgraceful' Jail
Calling conditions at the Fulton County, Ga. Jail "disgraceful and totally unacceptable," U.S. District Senior Judge Marvin H. Shoob ordered authorities to correct "gross inadequacies of medical care." Shoob found the county violated a settlement agreement with the jail's HIV-positive inmates, six of whom initiated a class-action suit last year. The inmates claimed medical treatment for those in the county jail, particularly HIV-positive prisoners, was gravely inadequate.Georgia Insurers Facing Greater Liability
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday that a state law governing uninsured motorist coverage requires an insurance company to pay damages for the death, caused by an uninsured driver, of a customer's son -- even if the son was not covered under the father's policy. The decision is "a pretty significant expansion of liability" for insurance companies, said insurance defense attorney Hall F. McKinley III. "Clearly it broadens the types of claims that can be brought."Sports Agent Work Is a Long Shot for Lawyers
Although a sports agent's work can touch on everything from contracts to criminal procedure, the handful of Atlanta lawyers in the business say it's difficult for practicing attorneys to break into the cutthroat field. The recent experiences of three Atlanta attorneys who have attempted to generate new practices as sports agents show how tricky the business can be.Georgia Inmates to Settle Suit on AIDS Treatment
HIV-positive inmates claiming they were denied critical medications by the Fulton County, Ga. Jail agreed to settle their suit against the county and a medical contractor, attorneys say. The deal comes four months after a court-appointed doctor reported the jail's medical clinic did not stock some commonly-prescribed anti-AIDS drugs. The doctor also supported the plaintiffs' complaint that some jail doctors were "disinterested in and not proficient in the care of HIV-infected persons."For Want of a Fax: Insurer, Agency Hit With $1 Million Jury Verdict
A tangled case stemming from what the plaintiff's attorney called an insurance agency's "simple failure to send a fax or e-mail" has cost the agency, along with the insurance company whose policy it sold, more than $1 million, including $400,000 in attorney fees. An attorney for Pacific Insurance Co. said it will appeal the $881,000 portion of the judgment it was ordered to pay to the plaintiff, Regency Savings Bank.Georgia Senator Concerned With Settlement Deals
A Georgia state senator who wrote the law on selling structured settlements says he can accept a judge's ruling on such a sale, but not the high interest rates. Sen. Michael S. Meyer von Bremen criticized the rates, that could hit nearly 20 percent, charged by the settlement buyer in a case last week before a Fulton superior court judge. The judge found that two people who accepted structured settlements in personal injury suits could assign the payments to another company in exchange for a lump sum.
H.J. Russell GC On Balancing Stakeholder Interests
Eric Hilton talks about what it's like to be general counsel, senior vice president, and corporate secreatary of Atlanta's H.J. Russell & Co.
Small-Firm Lawyer Hosts Spanish TV Show to Explain Law
Ralph Perales hosts a Spanish-language TV show that explains how U.S. law works. Although not an immigrant himself, he didn't know much about those issues until he started doing the show in 2000 -- he focuses on plaintiffs' and workers' compensation and business law at Atlanta's Perales & Fernandez. "There is a lot of hyperbole that is creating a lot of damage in the Hispanic community," he says. "That resentment is going to surface in 10 or 15 years when immigrants' kids come of age and start voting."TRENDING STORIES
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