http://www.dailyreportonline.com/news.jsp The Daily Report delivers Georgia legal news throughout the day. en-us Copyright 2013. ALM Media Properties, LLC. All rights reserved. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/terms.jsp http://www.law.com/img/ga/dr_rss_logo.png http://www.dailyreportonline.com/news.jsp Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:11 EDT ldavidson@alm.com (Lawrence Viele Davidson) A week of bickering between a DeKalb County judge and the district attorney ended with another DeKalb judge saying he would rule in his colleague's favor - and then recusing from the case. DeKalb Superior Court Judge Daniel Coursey (above) listens during Friday's hearing on a suit against a fellow judge. Later, Coursey recused, citing a JQC regulation on not ruling on a colleague's case. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600680317&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:11 EDT 1202600680317 gland@alm.com (Greg Land) Following a series of judicial rulings that dramatically reduced the scope of a multi­count legal malpractice case down to a single claim, a Fulton County jury found no liability against Atlanta attorney Louis Cohan and his former firm, now-defunct Weinstock & Scavo. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600682033&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:10 EDT 1202600682033 gland@alm.com (Greg Land) Atlanta Public Schools don't have to respond to prosecutors' subpoena for students' records related to criminal allegations of school officials cheating on standardized tests - at least not for now. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600680353&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:09 EDT 1202600680353 squalters@alm.com (Sheri Qualters) A federal judge has ruled that the estate of late entrepreneur and Internet activist Aaron Swartz may release to Congress and the public some of the information gathered by the lawyers preparing his defense in his hacking case. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600635842&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:08 EDT 1202600635842 lshuchman@alm.com (Lisa Shuchman) Back in February, President Barack Obama indicated in his State of the Union address that 3-D printing may be the next big thing in manufacturing. What he didn't say is that 3-D printing may also be the next big thing in intellectual property disputes. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600635804&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT 1202600635804 ksloan@alm.com (Karen Sloan) Harvard University undergraduates who aspire to be attorneys will have a head start on admission to that law school across the way at starting in 2015. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600652982&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:03 EDT 1202600652982 rmcdonald@alm.com (R. Robin McDonald) A panel of the Georgia Court of Appeals was asked Thursday to rule on the validity of a Clayton County grand jury's public corruption investigation of Morrow's former city manager and his subsequent indictment. The defendant's lawyer (above), Brian Steel, said the DA's conduct was "egregious." http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600462819&rss=rss_ga_news Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:11 EDT 1202600462819 Danny Carter shocked colleagues when the Hampton, Va., jailer posted a picture of his boss's opponent in the sheriff's race on his Facebook page along with a link to the contender's website. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600410106&rss=rss_ga_news Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:11 EDT 1202600410106 The beginning of 2013 has seen overall confidence in the state of the legal industry dip slightly among law firm managing partners, despite the same group's growing optimism about which way the U.S. economy is headed. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600421830&rss=rss_ga_news Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:09 EDT 1202600421830 apalmer@alm.com (Alyson M. Palmer) A federal appeals panel sitting in Atlanta on Thursday wrestled with what appears to be a new kind of case: a school district being sued over claims that a student was bullied because of his disability. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600448594&rss=rss_ga_news Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:09 EDT 1202600448594 ldavidson@alm.com (Lawrence Viele Davidson) DeKalb County's district attorney has responded to a judge's claims that the DA's investigator harassed him by saying it's the judge who is doing the harassing. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600442910&rss=rss_ga_news Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:08 EDT 1202600442910 The name Comrades came from the first song we played together in Joe's basement. Simply put, the song is about friends and has become a concert tradition to sing all together with our friends at the end of every show. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600407567&rss=rss_ga_news Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:07 EDT 1202600407567 On behalf of the State Bar of Georgia, I am writing to congratulate Justice Hugh P. Thompson of the Supreme Court of Georgia on being elected by his colleagues to serve as Chief Justice beginning Aug. 15, succeeding current Chief Justice Carol W. Hunstein. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600408036&rss=rss_ga_news Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:06 EDT 1202600408036 akeshner@alm.com (Andrew Keshner) More than 200 attorneys and staff at Legal Services NYC walked off their jobs Wednesday after voting overwhelmingly to reject management offers for a new contract. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600421908&rss=rss_ga_news Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT 1202600421908 The state Supreme Court has ruled in an ex-NFL player's case that Connecticut lawyers can't be sued for fraud for their conduct in court cases because of a centuries-old legal doctrine. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600652845&rss=rss_ga_news Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600652845 A judge has rejected a request from lawyers for Boston Marathon suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to allow them to take periodic photos of him in prison. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600652685&rss=rss_ga_news Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600652685 At the age of three, Brianica Kirsch was diagnosed with brain cancer. Her parents, desperate to find alternative measures for their daughter who had undergone surgeries and chemotherapy, turned to Dr. Christine Daniel, who offered an herbal supplement with a success rate she claimed was between 60 and 80 percent. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600649693&rss=rss_ga_news Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600649693 Authorities in the Turks and Caicos Islands have decided not to prosecute two Americans accused of having one bullet each in their luggage at the airport in the British territory. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600653725&rss=rss_ga_news Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600653725 In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans and a T-shirt, lying on his side as he takes a nap. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600649253&rss=rss_ga_news Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600649253 A lawyer for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner is calling on the U.S. Justice Department to release photos of wounds the man suffered when struck with non-lethal rounds at a recent clash with guards at the prison. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600650795&rss=rss_ga_news Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600650795 gland@alm.com (Greg Land) Real estate closing attorneys around the state are battling companies that hire Georgia lawyers to preside over closings just long enough to see that the documents are signed and witnessed. Meredith Ragains, left, Simon Bloom and Stephanie Everett have filed proposed class actions against closing vendors and their lawyers on behalf of more than 3,000 property buyers. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600300142&rss=rss_ga_news Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:11 EDT 1202600300142 ktucker@alm.com (Katheryn Hayes Tucker) The U.S. government agreed this week to pay $225,000 to satisfy a $250,000 judgment for a log truck driver struck by a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier's Buick in rural South Georgia, according to attorneys on both sides. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600296739&rss=rss_ga_news Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:10 EDT 1202600296739 jringel@alm.com (Jonathan Ringel) Georgia's legal community donated money and food equating to 840,958 pounds of goods to the state's food banks, a 38 percent increase from last year's effort, in the annual Legal Food Frenzy. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600290611&rss=rss_ga_news Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:09 EDT 1202600290611 ldavidson@alm.com (Lawrence Viele Davidson) The chief investigator for the DeKalb County district attorney interrupted jury selection this week to serve a subpoena on a Superior Court judge with whom the DA is sparring. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600284336&rss=rss_ga_news Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:08 EDT 1202600284336 Search Engine Optimization?or SEO?is the art or science of search. Google, Bing, Yahoo and the others attempt to do the same thing: Match questions with answers. The point of SEO is to make what you post online line up with the questions your intended audience is asking. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600244853&rss=rss_ga_news Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:07 EDT 1202600244853 A Harvard Medical School research assistant who went on to serve as a U.S. judge for 23 years now finds herself at the center of the Boston Marathon bombing case, and by extension the post 9-11 issue of whether, and when, suspected terrorists should benefit from constitutional rights. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600279248&rss=rss_ga_news Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:06 EDT 1202600279248 mrozen@alm.com (Miriam Rozen) The focus of lawsuits stemming from the April 17 explosion at the West, Texas, fertilizer plant may change, after news that Adair Grain Inc., doing business as West Fertilizer Co., holds only a $1 million liability insurance policy. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600261674&rss=rss_ga_news Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT 1202600261674 sgraham@alm.com (Scott Graham) Hong Kong-based Oron.com says it's just an ordinary cloud storage company, like Dropbox or Apple's iCloud. So why, it asks, should an American pornography distributor get an order freezing all of its assets and effectively shutting down its business? http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600261638&rss=rss_ga_news Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:04 EDT 1202600261638 A solo practitioner sometimes looks at networking events as a chance to be social and relax with friends. After all, working on your own, often behind closed doors, can be isolating. Perhaps, but you could be missing out on a great opportunity to make contacts that will help you build your business. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600244815&rss=rss_ga_news Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:03 EDT 1202600244815 Atlanta Public Schools is notifying parents that it will have to turn over students' education information in response to a subpoena. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600409473&rss=rss_ga_news Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600409473 The Army's top officer acknowledged on Thursday that his service is failing in its effort to stop sexual assaults, as he and the nation's other top defense leaders were summoned to the White House to discuss the militarywide problem. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600430051&rss=rss_ga_news Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600430051 Investigators have not ruled out criminal activity as the cause of a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant that killed at least 14 people and flattened part of a tiny Texas town, two officials familiar with the findings said Thursday. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600433443&rss=rss_ga_news Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600433443 A bill forbidding employers and universities from accessing private email or social media accounts of workers and students has passed the North Carolina House. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600432644&rss=rss_ga_news Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600432644 A federal grand jury has indicted state Rep. Tyrone Brooks over allegations claiming he misappropriated more than $1 million in charitable funds. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600431598&rss=rss_ga_news Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600431598 A second suspect has been arrested in the shooting that injured 20 people at a parade on Mother's Day, police said Thursday afternoon. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600431378&rss=rss_ga_news Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600431378 ldavidson@alm.com (Lawrence Viele Davidson) A woman and her lawyer claiming the CEO of Waffle House Inc. sexually abused her will have to pay the CEO's attorney fees for filing sealed documents in the open, a Fulton County judge decided on Monday. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600114696&rss=rss_ga_news Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:11 EDT 1202600114696 apalmer@alm.com (Alyson M. Palmer) Atlanta lawyer Thomas Byrne (above) is claiming victory in his first outing to the U.S. Supreme Court. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600116409&rss=rss_ga_news Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:10 EDT 1202600116409 rmcdonald@alm.com (R. Robin McDonald) For years, a local subsidiary of international medical technology company C.R. Bard dominated the market for cancer-fighting radioactive seeds by paying kickbacks to medical centers, according to a federal whistleblower suit unsealed Monday in Atlanta. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600113613&rss=rss_ga_news Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:09 EDT 1202600113613 States should lower the definition of drunken driving to a blood-alcohol reading of no more than .05 percent, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended Tuesday, saying the U.S. is too tolerant of impairment behind the wheel. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600099394&rss=rss_ga_news Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:08 EDT 1202600099394 For the fifth year in a row, U.S. employers have seen an increase in the number of wage-and-hour lawsuits filed against them in federal court, according to calculations by the Federal Judicial Center http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600031667&rss=rss_ga_news Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:07 EDT 1202600031667 Lydia Cruz-Moore didn't like the way her co-workers did their jobs, and she wasn't afraid to say so. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600031593&rss=rss_ga_news Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:06 EDT 1202600031593 tmauro@alm.com (Tony Mauro) The Supreme Court's running feud with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit resumed Monday with the justices' decision to grant review in a Tennessee case involving civil rights complaints filed by prison inmates. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600065600&rss=rss_ga_news Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT 1202600065600 On behalf of the State Bar of Georgia, I am writing to express condolences to the family, colleagues and friends of Atlanta attorney L. Jack Swertfeger Jr. on his recent passing. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600065670&rss=rss_ga_news Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:04 EDT 1202600065670 truger@alm.com (Todd Ruger) A growing controversy in Washington involving the Internal Revenue Service could mean big changes in the way the agency regulates the political activity of tax-exempt organizations, according to election law experts. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600065636&rss=rss_ga_news Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:02 EDT 1202600065636 Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress Wednesday that a serious national security leak required the secret gathering of telephone records at The Associated Press as he stood by an investigation in which he insisted he had no involvement. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600263980&rss=rss_ga_news Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600263980 Leaders of two conservative political groups in Georgia say they say faced invasive questioning from the Internal Revenue Service. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600263777&rss=rss_ga_news Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600263777 U.S. Attorney's officials say a south Georgia man has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for distributing child pornography. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600263514&rss=rss_ga_news Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600263514 Check out the Daily Report's sleek new site exclusively for smart phones and tablets. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600234880&rss=rss_ga_news Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600234880 A water projects bill approved by the U.S. Senate contains a provision that would remove a bureaucratic obstacle to deepening the Savannah harbor. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600250365&rss=rss_ga_news Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600250365 Abortion rights activists on Wednesday filed the first of what they expect will be several legal challenges to laws recently approved in North Dakota that would make that state the most restrictive in the country for women to terminate their pregnancies. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600274271&rss=rss_ga_news Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600274271 The Obama administration's record on transparency once again faces criticism—this time from both Republicans and Democrats—following the revelation that the U.S. Department of Justice secretly obtained and reviewed Associated Press telephone records during a criminal investigation into a suspected leak of classified information. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1368375195503&rss=rss_ga_news Tue, 14 May 2013 20:53:40 EDT 1368375195503 apalmer@alm.com (Alyson M. Palmer) It remains to be seen how far a recent state Supreme Court decision will go in limiting the ability of companies to stop their employees from jumping ship to competitors. Greenberg Traurig's David Long-Daniels (above), who represented the executive sued by his ex-employer: the high court correctly balanced mobility and trade secret protection. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599945546&rss=rss_ga_news Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:11 EDT 1202599945546 kjoyner@alm.com (Kathleen Baydala Joyner) The Georgia attorney general and a private lawyer are asking the state Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling that prohibits public defenders within the same circuit from representing co-defendants, arguing it would place large law firms in jeopardy. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599941079&rss=rss_ga_news Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:10 EDT 1202599941079 The Supreme Court said Monday that an Indiana farmer violated Monsanto Co.'s patents on soybean seeds resistant to its weed-killer by growing the beans without buying new seeds from the corporation. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599929455&rss=rss_ga_news Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:08 EDT 1202599929455 mcoyle@alm.com (Marcia Coyle) Justice David Souter chose 50 years after his retirement. For Justice Thurgood Marshall, it was two years after his death, and Justice Harry Blackmun settled on five years after his own death. Justice Byron White destroyed a good bit of his own. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599922547&rss=rss_ga_news Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:07 EDT 1202599922547 Shareholder activists are flexing their muscles with a new exuberance this proxy season, running more insurgent slates in proxy contests, stalking larger targets and enjoying a higher rate of success. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599914678&rss=rss_ga_news Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:06 EDT 1202599914678 While I greatly appreciate [State Bar of Georgia] President Robin Frazer Clark drawing attention to the important issue of the Constitutional requirement for indigent defense in her recent column ("Marking Gideon's half-century," Daily Report, May 10), it is necessary to clarify a point of confusion. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599915412&rss=rss_ga_news Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT 1202599915412 Much of the discussion in the media on whether the surviving Boston bombing suspect should have been given Miranda warnings when he was arrested appears to be based on a misconception: that law enforcement officers are required to give suspects the warnings set forth in Miranda v. Arizona and that failure to do so is a violation of the law, at least if the public-safety exception doesn't apply. That is not correct. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599914716&rss=rss_ga_news Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:04 EDT 1202599914716 vblum@alm.com (Vanessa Blum) The trial of executive recruiter David Nosal for computer hacking and theft of trade secrets drew attention from many quarters. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599918456&rss=rss_ga_news Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:03 EDT 1202599918456 The U.S. Supreme Court fight over California's Proposition 8, viewed by gay-rights advocates as a historic opportunity to establish same-sex marriage nationwide, may not even settle the issue in the state. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599941741&rss=rss_ga_news Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:02 EDT 1202599941741 U.S. Attorney's officials say a former pharmacist has pleaded guilty to exchanging prescription drugs for sex for more than two years. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600075284&rss=rss_ga_news Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600075284 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology can black out the names of university officials when releasing documents related to the investigation into free-information activist Aaron Swartz, a federal judge has ruled. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600075526&rss=rss_ga_news Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600075526 Police say a man has been indicted in a series of rapes from the mid-1980s in the metro Atlanta area. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600074814&rss=rss_ga_news Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600074814 A couple is suing the state of South Carolina for what they say was unnecessary sexual assignment surgery on a toddler they adopted. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600072648&rss=rss_ga_news Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600072648 A gang member convicted of working as an enforcer for a violent Memphis-based drug ring with ties to Mexican cartels was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600071670&rss=rss_ga_news Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600071670 The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202600026508&rss=rss_ga_news Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202600026508 apalmer@alm.com (Alyson M. Palmer) Judges of the federal appeals court based in Atlanta have received an earful from lawyers who complain that new court rules require them to spend too much time and money compiling mountains of paper. Solo practitioner Amy Weil (above) says it's time-consuming and expensive to make the required copies. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599700118&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:11 EDT 1202599700118 mhobbs@alm.com (Meredith Hobbs) Evolution, as opposed to survival, was the focus of mid-size law firm leaders who gathered Thursday at the Capital City Club. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599712758&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:10 EDT 1202599712758 gland@alm.com (Greg Land) Following an eight-day trial, a Fulton County jury took about an hour to render a defense verdict in the case of a former ironworker who claimed he had been permanently disabled when he was exposed to fiberglass dust and chemical fumes on the job. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599705845&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:09 EDT 1202599705845 ktucker@alm.com (Katheryn Hayes Tucker) Atlanta lawyer Jennifer Jordan has created a way to streamline jury selection with "Jury Strike," an iPad application. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599700031&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:08 EDT 1202599700031 Remember those awful middle school dances? There were always the girls whom no one asked to dance. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599644304&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:07 EDT 1202599644304 The agenda of the first FutureLaw conference at The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics wasn't your typical continuing legal education fare. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599644933&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:06 EDT 1202599644933 abronstad@alm.com (Amanda Bronstad) Additional plaintiffs' lawyers in the sudden acceleration cases against Toyota could win access to Toyota's coveted source code software following a federal judge's orders last week. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599644901&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:04 EDT 1202599644901 abronstad@alm.com (Amanda Bronstad) In the sudden acceleration cases against Toyota, there are confidential documents and highly confidential documents. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599644865&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:04 EDT 1202599644865 The Minnesota Senate voted Monday to make gay marriage legal, the last legislative step before Gov. Mark Dayton's promised signature will make the state the 12th in the U.S. to do so. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599943721&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202599943721 Taking the temperature of practice areas in 2013 http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599657986&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202599657986 At least 1,800 criminal cases have been dismissed in a metro Atlanta county court since 2010 because police officers failed to show up in court dispute being subpoenaed to testify, records show. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599898401&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202599898401 Police in Columbus are investigating after three female patients of a long-term health care facility reported that they were sexually assaulted. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599898279&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202599898279 A landmark $240 million verdict for 32 mentally disabled workers who suffered years of abuse will be reduced to about $1.6 million because of a law capping their damages. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599897818&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202599897818 Prosecutors say a former South Texas district attorney and one-time candidate for Congress used the power of his position to profit. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599882976&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202599882976 A Corinth man has been sentenced to serve 15 years in prison for leaving the scene of a 2011 accident in which a pedestrian was killed. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599881955&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202599881955 Swedish fashion retailer H&M says it will commit to a fire and building safety plan drawn up by unions in Bangladesh, following the deaths of hundreds of garment workers last month. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/PubArticleDRO.jsp?id=1202599880634&rss=rss_ga_news Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 1202599880634