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May 01, 2006 |

They Do It Their Way

BellSouth's lawyers make a virtue of being cheap--and give back plenty to the community.
3 minute read
July 01, 2003 |

Energy GCs in Motion

Very so often it seems as though half the lawyers in a given industry trade jobs. The utility business appears to be going through just such a phase lately, as companies across the sector reassess their needs. According to industry insiders, most energy companies are searching for seasoned lawyers who survived the 1970s energy crisis, the deregulation and subsequent consolidation of the 1980s and 1990s, and, most recently, the California energy crisis and corporate scandals like those involving Enron Corp.
5 minute read
December 13, 2004 |

Billing Rates Climb in 2004

Law firms showed healthy increases in billing rates this year, with the vast majority of those surveyed boosting both associate and partner fees.
6 minute read
September 26, 2007 |

Litigator to Take Reins at Arnall Golden Gregory

Arnall Golden Gregory has elected Glenn Hendrix as the firm's new managing partner. He will take over in January from William Kitchens, who has led the 130-lawyer firm for 12 years. Hendrix is a litigator like Kitchens, practicing health care and international law, including international arbitration. He has spent his entire career at the firm, joining in 1985 after receiving his law degree from Emory University Law School. Hendrix says he wants to grow the firm, which could mean adding offices.
5 minute read
November 05, 2012 |

$25M in legal fees awarded in insulation settlement

A federal judge in Atlanta has awarded $25 million in legal fees to attorneys who forged a $75 million class action settlement with one of the nation's largest insulation contractors in a massive price-fixing case.
6 minute read
November 15, 1999 |

Pilot-Lawyers Balance Risk, Convenience

Attorney Jay D. Bennett first thought of piloting a plane while trying to get to a hearing in Sylvester, Ga. The options: a four hour drive from Atlanta to the Southern Georgia town, or an hour flight from Atlanta International Airport to Tallahassee, Fla., and then a two-hour road trip in a rented car. Bennett chose neither. Instead, he called a flight school and said he wanted his first flying lesson en route to the hearing. His second lesson was during the flight back.
2 minute read
April 04, 2001 |

Red Cross Fends Off 'Fear of HIV' Suit

Although the Red Cross conceded it had provided blood from a donor it should have rejected as a high risk for HIV, it won a summary judgment in a Georgia suit alleging negligence and infliction of emotional distress. The plaintiff was required to show the blood had in fact exposed her to HIV, even though the transfusion was potentially tainted with Group O HIV, which cannot be detected by current tests.
4 minute read
July 26, 2002 |

Georgia Supreme Court to Decide Blood Bank, Med-Mal Issues

The Georgia Supreme Court has taken up two malpractice matters that could affect the practice of medicine. The court has agreed to settle a dispute over a plaintiff's burden of proof in medical malpractice cases and also will decide whether the American Red Cross can be held liable for distributing blood that did not conform to its HIV-screening procedures.
7 minute read
February 23, 2010 |

Phila. Jury Awards $9.5 Mil. in HRT Trial

Another Philadelphia jury has decided that drugmaker Wyeth should be punished with punitive damages for the warnings provided to a plaintiff and her doctor over the risk of breast cancer from Wyeth's hormonal drug Prempro.
4 minute read
May 08, 2000 |

Scholar Questions City Traffic Court Constitutionality

Atlanta's busy Traffic Court could be in deep trouble. In fact, the very existence of the court may be unconstitutional, according to a new legal analysis just published in the Georgia State University Law Review. The author, Edward C. Brewer III, assistant professor at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University, contends all non-traffic misdemeanor convictions since 1988 and possibly all convictions obtained in City Court since 1996 are void.
8 minute read

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