|
Special Reports
Packages of stories and interactive features of interest to Daily Report readers
| |
COVER STORY
Defining Success
By Tammy Lloyd Clabby and Mike Tierney, Special to the Daily Report
When we asked 13 lawyers to define success, money, power and position were rarely mentioned.
|
 |
PAST PICKS
Where are they now?
By Daily Report staff
Download a pdf chart detailing where our previous picks have landed. (1.3 MB)
|
| The 2008 Profiles |
 |
William Bradley Carver
By Andy Peters, Staff Reporter
Tenacity marks this governmental affairs partner, who invited himself to the statewide conversation on what to do about Georgia’s water problems.
|
|
 |
Rebecca G. Godbey
By Alyson M. Palmer, Staff Reporter
Expect the unexpected from this estates lawyer who never let the anticipated route constrain her career—or her spirit.
|
|
 |
Jennifer Hill
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker, Staff Reporter
She brings confidence and calm far beyond her (fewer than 30) years to her in-house position with luxury apartment developers, Place Properties.
|
|
 |
Josh Kamin
By Andy Peters, Staff Reporter
Real estate law is in the DNA for this King & Spalding capital markets partner.
|
|
 |
Jon-Peter Kelly
By R. Robin McDonald, Staff Reporter
The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District tapped this assistant US attorney to handle a highly controversial case because of his judgment and sensitivity.
|
|
 |
J. Matthew Maguire, Jr.
By Greg Land, Staff Reporter
Got an arcane bone to pick regarding governmental contracts or regulations? Here’s your man.
|
|
 |
Adam Malone
By Greg Land, Staff Reporter
The third-generation personal injury lawyer is turning heads with record-shattering judgments.
|
|
 |
Barbara Marschalk
By Meredith Hobbs, Staff Reporter
This force of nature is known not to take much guff, a useful quality in a defense litigator.
|
|
 |
Steven J. Rosenwasser
By R. Robin McDonald, Staff Reporter
At the office by 5 a.m., he has grown from a major work horse into a leading litigator in a firm with more than its share of stars.
|
|
 |
Steven S. Sidman
By Janet L. Conley, Associate Editor
To land his dream job, he got his foot in the door through the copy room. Now he represents the stars, with an emphasis on celebrity chefs.
|
|
 |
Rachel Epps Spears
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker, Staff Reporter
As executive director of the Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta, she has the ear—and the respect—of the city’s top in-house legal brass.
|
|
 |
Gerald V. Thomas II
By Meredith Hobbs, Staff Reporter
Who says tax lawyers are dull? Here’s a guy who is drawn to the people-oriented details of the practice.
|
|
|
More special coverage sections:
Corporate Governance
Monday, November 17, 2008
Focus on executive compensation after the election 
by Ann E. Murray, Special to the Daily Report
Will the focus on executive compensation continue under President-elect Barack Obama? It could be that the first decade of the 21st century will be known as the decade of executive compensation reform. After several decades of little or no regulatory changes, in recent years executive compensation .... |
Monday, November 17, 2008
Executive compensation under the Stabilization Act
by Laura G. Thatcher, Special to the Daily Report
On Oct. 3, President Bush signed into law the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA), giving the Treasury Department authority to inject up to $700 billion to restore liquidity and stability to the U.S. economy. Eleven days later, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced the .... |
Monday, November 17, 2008
Putting the brakes on executive compensation
by David A. Stockton, Special to the Daily Report
The backlash against excessive executive compensation reverberating out of the current worldwide financial crisis has heightened interest in what was already a very hot topic. Stories of huge golden parachute payments being made to executives of companies that went under or were rescued at .... |
Diversity
Monday, October 20, 2008
Trending toward equality
by Lawrie Demorest and Jeffrey J. Swart, Special to the Daily Report
Everyone paying attention to the legal marketplace already knows that law firms wanting to prosper must embrace and support diversity. Clients are demanding it. Law students are insisting on it. As a result, the Web sites, firm résumés and promotional materials of almost every major law firm .... |
Monday, October 20, 2008
Diversifying the Team
by Valerie Jackson, Special to the Daily Report
Too often, the idea of diversity—particularly at a law firm—consists of nothing more than a series of independent initiatives or monthly meetings. While scholarship, mentorship and business development initiatives certainly play an important role in fostering diversity, law firms may find .... |
IP law practice guide
Monday, October 13, 2008
Can we afford to ignore patent protection in China?
by Brian C. Meadows, Special to the Daily Report
The explosive growth of China as an economic superpower in today's global economy has made it an increasingly attractive market to foreign businesses. Not withstanding its obvious commercial potential, entering the Chinese market does present challenges with respect to obtaining and enforcing .... |
Monday, October 13, 2008
Intellectual property scales the Great Wall
by John S. Pratt and Christine P. James, Special to the Daily Report
The most significant commercial development of the past two decades has been migration of manufacturing from the West to the East. Much of the built environment in the West—the objects of our daily lives from footwear and clothing to bicycles, furniture and appliances—now are manufactured .... |
Electronic evidence discovery practice guide
Monday, August 25, 2008
Compliance quagmires often alienate legal teams
by Tom Allman, Law.com
Recent decisions in Qualcomm v. Broadcom—sanctioning party and counsel for discovery misconduct and referring counsel to state bar and remanding for further proceedings—have thrown into bold relief the complicated issues of electronic data discovery compliance. Discovery increasingly has become .... |
Monday, August 25, 2008
Discovery in foreign languages leaves legal system tongue-tied
by Jason Krause, Law.com
John Tredennick is a lawyer and technologist, but lately he's been worrying about some odd things. Like the fact that Japanese is written with a combination of three types of scripts and that many languages run their words together without breaks between them. Trivia like this is usually of .... |
Monday, August 25, 2008
Recent cases teach valuable e-discovery lessons
by Cass W. Christenson, Special to the Daily Report
Managing discovery of electronically stored information (ESI) is a challenging task. Companies often generate and store huge volumes of data across multiple sources, employees and locations. Further, many discovery requests that seek ESI disregard the costs or burdens imposed on the responding .... |
On The Rise
Monday, August 18, 2008
On The Rise: Gerald V. Thomas II
by Meredith Hobbs, Staff Reporter
Gerald V. Thomas II bucks the tax lawyer stereotype of an egg-headed, detail-obsessed drone poring through the latest edition of the Internal Revenue Code. He thinks tax law is a people-oriented practice. You have to know your tax law, he says, but you also have to know your clients and their .... |
Monday, August 18, 2008
On The Rise: Rachel Epps Spears
by Katheryn Hayes Tucker, Staff Reporter
When Rachel Epps Spears stepped off the King & Spalding public finance practice track three years ago and took a pay cut to go after what, for her, was a dream job running a nonprofit organization, her colleagues thought she'd lost her mind. Turns out she was stepping onto an even faster .... |
Monday, August 18, 2008
On The Rise: Steven S. Sidman
by Janet L. Conley, Associate Editor
Steven S. Sidman loves music and good food, and he's found a way to be involved in both without even picking up a pair of drumsticks—or throwing any on the grill, either. Sidman, 38, is a partner in the entertainment law group at Greenberg Traurig. Over the past decade, he's built a practice .... |
Monday, August 18, 2008
On The Rise: Steven J. Rosenwasser
by R. Robin McDonald, Staff Reporter
Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore partner John E. Floyd tells a story to illustrate Steven J. Rosenwasser's professional persona. Rosenwasser, Floyd says, had been grilling a deposition witness about the existence of certain documents sought in discovery. Once he elicited confirmation of the documents' .... |
Monday, August 18, 2008
On The Rise: Barbara A. Marschalk
by Alyson M. Palmer, Staff Reporter
Barbara A. Marschalk was a pharmacy major at the University of South Carolina until she raised her hand in a chemistry 101 class her freshman year and asked a question. “Any idiot knows that,” was the instructor's scathing retort. Marschalk got up and walked out. Marschalk does not take guff—a .... |
Results Page : 1 2 3 4
Currently showing 1-15 of 50 results |
|
