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September 24, 2001 |

Holding Steady

Should this year's incoming first-year associates be paid more than their counterparts last year, when salaries at some firms rose an incredible 25 percent? No, say most Georgia legal employers, and that's their final answer. Why? Thanks to the economic downturn and the lack of competition in other sectors for fresh legal talent, they don't have to up the ante.
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October 28, 2002 |

Chart: Out-of-Towners

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April 15, 2003 |

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August 15, 2007 |

Despite 11th Circuit Ruling, AT&T Vows to Keep Car Logo

When drivers and pit crews check their cars' engines and tires before Sunday's NASCAR event in Michigan, Jeff Burton and his team may be waiting for another new paint job to dry on their No. 31 car. Or maybe not. Despite the fact that AT&T's bid to maneuver around a largely exclusive telecommunications sponsorship deal between Sprint Nextel and NASCAR hit the wall Monday, a company spokesman said Tuesday that AT&T expects its paint scheme to remain on Burton's car.
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March 03, 2006 |

Atlanta Firms Slow Flow of M&A Deals to New York

It used to be that an Atlanta company preparing for a big deal would shun its local counsel for a Manhattan law firm. Now, mergers and acquisitions practices at Atlanta firms routinely handle multibillion-dollar transactions. Case in point: Smith, Gambrell & Russell partner Robert Paller, who represented AirTran Airways when the discount airline raised $4.5 billion to buy 114 planes from Boeing. The rise of Atlanta firms comes as the national value of M&A deals rose to $1.1 trillion last year.
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October 30, 2007 |

Georgia Open Records Act Could Get Rewrite

A Georgia state representative is planning to introduce legislation to rewrite the entire state Open Records Act. Changes that Rep. Jill Chambers, R-Atlanta, is seeking to make include upgrading violations of the law from a misdemeanor to a felony and improving the media's ability to obtain records. Chambers' and other Republican state lawmakers' efforts diverge from past attempts by some party members to weaken the law concerning disclosures regarding some financial donors and economic-development efforts.
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May 05, 2003 |

How Not To Settle a Multiparty Suit

In-house lawyer Karel Zaruba helped his employer, Warner-Lambert, dodge a bullet six years ago when he struck a deal with plaintiffs' lawyers to drop a planned mass breach-of-warranty suit. For $235,000 the lawyers agreed not to sue over the effectiveness of Warner's Nix head-lice shampoo. Most of all, the lawyers agreed not to disclose the existence of the agreement to their 90 clients, who together received only $10,000 in refunds. The remaining $225,000 the lawyers kept.
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July 27, 2007 |

Vick Drafts High-Profile Team as Proceedings Begin in Dogfighting Case

Fans of Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick say he has never had enough premier players around him. That was not the case Thursday, when legal proceedings began against him in a federal courthouse in Richmond, Va. Vick has hired a high-profile team of lawyers to fight charges that he participated in an illegal dogfighting enterprise. He faces up to five years in prison. U.S. District Court judge Henry Hudson set a trial date of Nov. 26 at Vick's arraignment.
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February 28, 2000 |

Morris, Manning Ties Alston & Bird at $ 100k; Jones, Day Still on Top

Morris, Manning & Martin is the latest firm to join the six-figure associate pay club. On April 1, first-years begin earning $100,000, a $25,000 raise above last year's starting pay, says Managing Partner Robert E. Saudek.
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October 05, 2009 |

In-House Texas: New Deals

In-House Texas reports on Dell Inc.'s acquisition of Perot Systems Corp. for $3.9 billion, on Baker Hughes Inc.'s pending acquisition of BJ Services Co. in a deal valued at $5.5 billion, and on a deal on about $500 million in deposits and 19 Texas branch offices recently reached by Sterling Bank and First Bank.
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