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July 06, 2000 |

A Class Act

Jan Schlichtmann, the passionate plaintiffs' lawyer immortalized in the book and film "A Civil Action," announced his move to Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein's Boston office. Joining the firm marks the end of an odyssey back to law. "I thought my career was over," said Schlichtmann, after the bankrupting and exhausting case he filed against W. R. Grace and Beatrice over chemical contamination.
3 minute read
December 12, 2007 |

GCs Draw Line in the Sand Over Changes to Patent Law

Changes in patent rules -- in the courts, in Congress and in federal regulations -- have forced general counsel to take sides against each other and caused some outside attorneys to sound an alarm. Research companies say restrictions hinder innovation while tech companies say reform is needed to curb patent trolls.
5 minute read
April 23, 2013 |

Atlanta Schools Work to Help Kids Left Behind

Long after the school day ends, nearly half the students enrolled at Burgess-Peterson Academy in Atlanta spend an extra four hours in class looking to hone their math and reading skills by using such items as a deck of cards for subtraction problems and staplers and crayons to practice taking measurements.
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August 21, 2006 |

On The Rise: Kathryn Furman

At a time when takeovers by private equity funds increasingly make headlines think of last month's $21 billion leveraged buyout of hospital chain HCA Inc. by a team of funds, lawyers like King Spalding's Kathryn M. Furman are increasingly in high demand.Furman's transactional law practice touches an array of corporate legal issues.
3 minute read
December 13, 2007 |

GCs Draw Line in the Sand Over Changes to Patent Law

Changes in patent rules -- in the courts, in Congress and in federal regulations -- have forced general counsel to take sides against each other and caused some outside attorneys to sound an alarm. Research companies say restrictions hinder innovation while tech companies say reform is needed to curb patent trolls.
5 minute read
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August 30, 2000 |

Charles R. Morgan, BellSouth Corp.

Charles R. Morgan is executive vice president and general counsel of BellSouth Corp., the third-biggest player in the U.S. local phone service market. He says, "Lawyers have an important role here. Their views are considered important. Nobody says, 'That's not a legal matter--we're not interested in your view.'I've told the lawyers, 'You're in in-house heaven here.'"
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October 02, 2006 |

Sadly, the Snark is no Tom Cruise

7 minute read
January 24, 2012 |

Lawsuit filed in fatal Allentown gas explosion

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A man who lost three relatives in an explosion that killed five people in Allentown last year has sued a utility company.
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May 01, 2004 |

Piano Man Joins Guitar Company

Joel Cherry plays keyboards, not guitar. In every other respect, however, he seems to have been custom-made for his new job as GC of Nashville's storied Gibson Guitar Corp., maker of guitars played by the likes of Les Paul, Elvis Presley, and Pete Townsend. The 54-year-old Cherry has spent his life in music: listening, performing, and managing.
2 minute read
September 28, 2007 |

UPS Delivers Attorney for Pro Bono Project

After hiring him as a paralegal 10 years ago and then helping pay his way through law school, United Parcel Service promoted Ryan Swift to a staff attorney post in May. But before he could settle into his new job, UPS sent him to a fellowship at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. UPS GC Teri McClure says that she got the idea while serving as a director at Atlanta Legal Aid. "I thought it was a great idea [for UPS to provide our own fellow], given our history with the community internship program," she says.
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