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400-plus expected to work at Service Juris
Organizers of the 12th annual Service Juris event expect more than 400 volunteers from the legal community to help paint, landscape and clean up areas in Lakewood Heights on Saturday.The event has been coordinated with Hands On Atlanta, Sustainable Lakewood, the Fuller Center for Housing of Greater Atlanta, Park Pride and the Whitehead Boys Girls Club.ACC's tennis event quadruples in size
In the festivities that followed the Second Annual Association of Corporate Counsel Charity Golf, Tennis and Spa Day, winners were named for golf and raffle drawings, shoppers zoomed in on their silent auction items, and players socialized over drinks and desserts at the Golf Club of Georgia in Alpharetta. But no official results were available for tennis.A LinkedIn Profile Is Only the Beginning
Consultant Robin Hensley suspects only a small percentage of the lawyers on LinkedIn are taking full advantage it. Like many, they may sign up and stop -- long before they find out what can be gained from LinkedIn's capabilities. With a few clicks, a whole world of opportunity opens up.Five on short list for Fulton State Court
The office of Gov. Sonny Perdue has released the names of five finalists to fill the seat of former Fulton County State Court Chief Judge Albert L. Thompson, who retired in September. Picked from 27 candidates by Perdue's Judicial Nominating Commission, they are:�??? Scott D. Delius, 41, a sole practitioner in Atlanta.'Other Georgia' Phenomenon Keeps Some Pay Static
Not all legal employers played follow-the-leader on associate raises. Small-town lawyers, attorneys in government or public-interest work and insurance defense associates often found their pay virtually unchanged. "It's the 'other Georgia' phenomenon again," says Hubert C. Lovein Jr., a partner at Jones, Cork & Miller in Macon. "There's Atlanta and there's the rest of the state."Ballard Spahr adds Opler to build local corporate practice
Ballard Spahr has recruited a corporate partner, Stephen Opler, from Carlton Fields to build out its corporate practice locally.Candid Chat by Lawyers Now Crux of Litigation
A candid conversation between opposing counsel about the merits of a frivolous litigation claim has come back to haunt them. One of the lawyers recounted the conversation to his client, who just happened to be a lawyer. Now one attorney is himself the subject of a frivolous litigation motion and the other is being sued by his client for refusing to testify about the conversation.Judges team up for settlements
In an unusual pairing, a DeKalb County State Court judge assisted a U.S. District Court judge in Birmingham, Ala., in mediating settlements in more than 200 suits in which plaintiffs said liquid vitamin supplements made them ill.DeKalb County State Court Judge Alvin T. Wong participated in the mass mediation at the request of U.Lawyer-writers explore their creative interests
Novelist David Fulmer said the fiction-writing class he has taught in Decatur for the past four years has drawn all types of people, but one group stands out: lawyers."I never went looking for lawyers, but I've had at least one attorney in almost every class," said Fulmer, a mystery writer with eight books and a Shamus Award to his name.Creating a Culture of Compliance
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