Sign in to follow
Search Results

0 results for 'Ford Harrison'

You can use to get even better search results
June 19, 2006 |

Summertime Reading for GCs

Are you tired of reading through those contracts and compliance documents? Or are you planning a summer trip, and need something for the beach? In either case, now would be a good time to pick up one of the books on a reading list created especially for GCs, by attorney Michael P. Maslanka. Far from the run-of-the-mill summer thrillers, these books can entertain, while also helping you refresh your perspective and management skills. For example, who wouldn't benefit from learning "conversational aikido?"
6 minute read
September 24, 2012 |

Largest Law Firms

59 minute read
April 05, 2010 |

An Employee Handbook Revolution

Let's start a revolution to remake employee handbooks, suggests Michael P. Maslanka. Currently they are fear-driven: Do this, don't do that. But they could be so much more. He offers some suggested handbook revisions that will play well to a jury if an employer is sued.
3 minute read
March 04, 2010 |

New Deals

AIG has agreed to sell its Asian insurance unit to Prudential PLC for $35.5 billion. Proceeds from the sale will allow AIG to pay back more quickly the $180 billion it received from the federal government to help it stay in business. Also, the Coca-Cola Company is acquiring the North American operations of Coca-Cola Enterprises, its largest bottler, in a transaction worth more than $13 billion.
6 minute read
June 05, 2006 |

Headaches Persist After Arbitration Award

For a good example of how far some attorneys and litigants are willing to go to overturn an arbitration decision, look no further than a recent hearing in Dallas, where attorneys argued for more than three hours over whether a $2.3 million arbitration award in a workers' compensation case should be vacated because the arbitration judge allegedly had a migraine headache. Some trial lawyers say the case represents a growing dissatisfaction with resolving litigation through arbitration.
9 minute read
February 19, 2009 |

Newsbriefs

4 minute read
May 29, 2006 |

Headaches & Pains: The Pounding Doesn't Always Stop After an Arbitration Award

Some trial lawyers see a growing dissatisfaction with resolving litigation through arbitration. Frequently, parties dissatisfied with the arbitrator's decision are willing to take the difficult and expensive step of contesting an arbitration award.
9 minute read
December 01, 2009 |

News in Brief

5 minute read
July 17, 2013 |

Appeals Court Upholds Summary Judgment For Hospital

The Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed the grant of summary judgment to Emory-Adventist Inc., d/b/a Emory-Adventist Hospital ("EAH"), in Laura Hunter's medical malpractice suit alleging that an emergency room physician failed to properly treat Hunter's husband for his heart condition, resulting in his death, holding that EAH did not employ the physician and it was protected from vicarious liability because it fully complied with Georgia law in posting a notice in a public area of the hospital regarding the independent contractor status of all or some of the physicians performing services.
17 minute read
January 23, 2001 |

Ex-Fulton ADA Shawn LaGrua to Head DeKalb Corruption Unit

Prosecuter Shawn E. LaGrua is set to become DeKalb County, Ga.'s assistant district attorney and head the new public corruption unit. This means LaGrua will assist in the grand jury investigation into DeKalb Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown's murder and public corruption in the sheriff's office. Also of interest: a Kilpatrick Stockton IP lawyer heads to Russia to teach copyright law; and recent firm news in Georgia.
7 minute read

More from ALM

More from ALM

Legal Speak is a weekly podcast that makes sense of what’s happening in the legal industry.

Resources