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Watch for falling prices
By Michael Tierney, Special to the Daily Report
Most firms are hearing, loud and clear, from clients seeking a little billable-hour love during these harsh economic times. For two decades, substantial rate boosts were an annual rite, placing clients in a grin-and-bear-it posture. No longer. Industry observers say clients are requesting—even demanding—by letter, fax, e-mail and Ma Bell a smaller tab to smooth their ride through the recession.
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More bankruptcies, more hourly rates
By Mary Smith Judd, Special Projects Editor
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Monday, October 26, 2009
The state of family law 
by Randall M. Kessler, Special to the Daily Report
Unlike the past few years when new laws governing child support and custody were passed, this year's Georgia Legislature took a year off from major family law legislation. And that is a good thing. The huge changes to family law and custody have taken a while to digest and to become part of .... |
Monday, October 19, 2009
IP Law Practice Guide: Patent marking: Get it right, or beware of the bounty hunter
by Candice C. Decaire, Special to the Daily Report
Attention patent lawyers: How many of your clients tout their patented or patent pending technology? How many of their products are marked with one or more U.S. patent numbers? Here on my desk, I see at least three products that are marked with patent numbers (laptop, insulated coffee cup .... |
On The Rise
Monday, August 17, 2009
On The Rise: S. Gardner Culpepper III
by Greg Land, Staff Reporter
Although he enjoyed the intensity and quality he experienced for nearly a decade practicing “big firm” law at Alston & Bird, S. Gardner Culpepper III said his 2007 jump to 25-lawyer Ashe, Rafuse & Hill has afforded him freedom from the big firm tendancy to steer lawyers into specialty .... |
Monday, August 17, 2009
On The Rise: Christian F. Torgrimson
by Katheryn Hayes Tucker, Staff Reporter
Christian F. Torgrimson has a gift for knowing what she wants and being able to make it happen. She chose her profession in sixth grade when a teacher read her essay to the class and told her, “You're a really good writer. You should think about being a lawyer because lawyers do a lot of writing .... |
Monday, August 17, 2009
On The Rise: Shondeana C. Morris
by Greg Land, Staff Reporter
With her easy smile and affable demeanor, Shondeana C. Morris initially might seem an unlikely prospect to have twice accomplished one of the most difficult tasks facing a Fulton County prosecutor: convincing a jury to deliver a death sentence. Morris' ability to do so in both of the capital .... |
Monday, August 17, 2009
On The Rise: J. Scott Key
by Greg Land, Staff Reporter
A funny thing happened on J. Scott Key's way to becoming a religion professor; he got a taste of the law in a law and religion course, and liked it. And so, even though he continued to earn a Master of Divinity degree from Emory's Candler School of Theology, Key chose to forego instructing .... |
Monday, August 17, 2009
On The Rise: Andrea M. Farley
by Andy Peters, Staff Reporter
Andrea M. Farley, a former All-American tennis player at the University of Florida, no longer has time to play tennis. But, her colleagues attest, like a tennis player who wins with both a powerful serve and a solid backhand, the Troutman Sanders partner is deft in both dealmaking and law .... |
Monday, August 17, 2009
On The Rise: Susan E. Edlein
by Alyson M. Palmer, Staff Reporter
Just a few years ago, Susan E. Edlein was on the path to success at one of the country's biggest law firms, Holland & Knight. As a partner in the Atlanta office, she was a leader of the law firm's national real estate litigation team. She was coordinating the Atlanta office's efforts .... |
Monday, August 17, 2009
On The Rise: Jason J. Carter
by R. Robin McDonald, Staff Reporter
Jason J. Carter went to Africa with the Peace Corps partly to convince himself that he shouldn't go to law school. Before his 1997 graduation from Duke University, he recalled a buddy's warning that, “Law school is the graveyard of the liberal arts.” Carter wanted to avoid that fate. But .... |
Monday, August 17, 2009
On The Rise: Sarah E. Bolling
by Meredith Hobbs, Staff Reporter
Sarah E. Bolling is fighting to save poor peoples' homes. Her opponent: the banking system. Bolling has become an integral part of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society's Home Defense Program in just two years. The 2007 Harvard Law School graduate joined the program on a public interest Skadden Fellowship. .... |
Monday, August 17, 2009
On The Rise: Erik L. Belenky
by Andy Peters, Staff Reporter
When Koch Industries acquired Georgia-Pacific in December 2005, one of Atlanta's largest corporate consumers of high-end legal services suddenly was in play. Before the $21 billion acquisition, Troutman Sanders had been the Atlanta firm handling much of Georgia-Pacific's corporate work; Troutman .... |
Monday, August 17, 2009
On The Rise: Simon H. Bloom
by Meredith Hobbs, Staff Reporter
Simon H. Bloom III left Powell Goldstein in March 2007 to start his own litigation boutique focused on real estate disputes, just as the real estate crisis was heating up. Bloom said he started out representing his builder and developer clients in “plain vanilla real estate litigation”— land-use .... |
Monday, August 17, 2009
On The Rise: Marc A. Rawls
by Janet L. Conley, Associate Editor
Marc A. Rawls spent several intense months this spring working on what he calls the biggest deal of his career. Rawls, a Sutherland partner, sounds genuinely happy about working every day—nights and weekends, too—for a solid eight weeks helping client First Data Corp. form a new company. That .... |
Monday, August 17, 2009
On The Rise: Making the list
by Mary Smith Judd, Special Projects Editor
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. —E.B. White Is there really such a creature as the self-made man or woman? How much of our success is really the product of our own resourcefulness and diligence? And how much is a product of when, where and to .... |
Monday, August 17, 2009
On The Rise: What outliers share
by Tammy Lloyd Clabby, Special to the Daily Report
Given a choice between intellect, timing and drive, 10 of our 12 On the Rise selections this year said drive was the most crucial ingredient in their personal success. Similarly, an overwhelming majority of past On the Rise picks agreed. Seventy-two of our past 101 picks, responding to a survey .... |
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