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February 06, 2012 |

Plaintiff awarded $350K in rape suit

Following a hard-fought seven-day, three-way trial, a Fulton County jury reached a what several lawyers called "a compromise verdict" and awarded $350,000 to a woman who said she was brutally raped and robbed at the Cotton Mill Lofts in Cabbagetown in 2004.Jurors held the woman's attacker and property management company Aderhold Properties Inc.
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October 02, 2012 |

Bayer subsidiary must pay Dow units $5.3M in fees and costs for inequitable conduct

In a 17-year-old patent case, a North Carolina federal judge has awarded two Dow Chemical Co. affiliates $5.3 million in attorney fees and costs for inequitable conduct by a Bayer A.G. subsidiary.
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March 02, 2011 |

Gordon & Rees adds two-lawyer Atlanta outpost

Am Law 200 firm Gordon Rees has opened an Atlanta office with two entertainment lawyers from EpsteinBeckerGreen. C. Anthony Mulrain and Donald M. Woodard joined as partners Jan. 31.The Atlanta outpost is the 18th office for Gordon Rees, a San Francisco-based general practice firm with about 425 lawyers. It is the firm's second office in the Southeast.
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October 21, 2010 |

Perdue taps two for appeals court

Gov. Sonny Perdue on Wednesday named two young conservatives, Keith R. Blackwell and Stephen L. A. Dillard, to the state Court of Appeals.Both Blackwell and Dillard are former federal court law clerks who have been active in lawyers' chapters of the Federalist Society. Blackwell, 35, is a partner at Parker, Hudson, Rainer Dobbs in Atlanta, and Dillard, 40, is of counsel at James Bates Pope Spivey in Macon.
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August 06, 2008 |

ABA to Tackle Controversial Conflict-of-Interest Issues

At the American Bar Association's 131st annual meeting, a six-day event starting Thursday in New York, the ABA's House of Delegates is set to vote on a contentious proposal that would ease the conflict-of-interest rules regarding attorneys who switch jobs from one private law firm to another. The proposal would enable a firm to "screen" the incoming attorney from the rest of its attorneys and to continue representing its client without the consent of the incoming attorney's former client.
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July 08, 2013 |

MOVERS

Michael Engle joins Greenblatt, Pierce, Engle, Funt & Flores as name partner and will lead the white-collar crime and investigation practice. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column.
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August 19, 2010 |

Panel lists 31 names for Court of Appeals

Gov. Sonny Perdue's Judicial Nominating Commission on Wednesday released the names of 31 Georgia lawyers in line to be considered for two vacancies on the state Court of Appeals.The commission will vet would-be successors to Judge G. Alan Blackburn, who is retiring from the court, and Judge Debra H. Bernes, who died last month after a battle with cancer.
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November 01, 2010 |

Murder victim's family wins $1.3M verdict

A Newton County jury has awarded more than $1.3 million to the children of a young woman murdered in a public housing apartment complex after finding that the Covington Housing Authority was largely responsible for allowing a convicted murderer to live there. The jury held her murderer 10 percent liable after the judge ordered that he be listed on the verdict form in accordance with Georgia's apportionment statute.
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