• State v. Hargis

    Publication Date: 2014-03-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Langley, District Attorney, and Cathy A. Cox-Brakefield, Assistant District Attorney, Blairsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew J. Tuck, Kyle G. A. Wallace, and Jonathan D. Parente Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13G0645

    Asserting a disqualification in a motion for new trial before the same judge who is alleged to be disqualified without also asking the judge to recuse from hearing the motion for new trial, as was d

  • March 20, 2014 | Daily Report Online

    Feds Allege Ga. Hospitals Paid Kickbacks

    The U.S. Justice Department has intervened in a whistleblower case against one of the country's largest hospital chains, alleging that three of its Georgia hospitals paid kickbacks for m

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  • March 19, 2014 | Daily Report Online

    ON THE MOVE: New Faces at Nelson Mullins, Bloom Sugarman

    Charles Huddleston has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as of counsel. He was a shareholder at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz until going solo in Augu

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  • March 18, 2014 | The American Lawyer

    Big Firms Wait on Sidelines as West Slaps Russia With Sanctions

    UPDATES: 3/19/14, 6:05 p.m. EDT. Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School,

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  • March 18, 2014 | Daily Report Online

    Recusal Request Was Too Late, High Court Says

    The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday rejected a drug defendant's argument for a new trial, concluding that the defendant waited too long to ask the trial judge to recuse because she had h

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  • March 12, 2014 | Daily Report Online

    Alston & Bird Posts Flat Year in Revenue, Income

    Alston & Bird had a flat 2013 after posting significant gains in revenue and net income in 2012. Revenue declined by $11 million to $675 million and net income dropped by $2 milli

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  • March 10, 2014 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    LATERALS Arnstein & Lehr (Chicago): Eugene Geekie Jr. joins the firm's litigation and bankruptcy and creditors'

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  • March 7, 2014 | Legal Times

    D.C. Bar Announces 2014 Presidency Candidates

    The D.C. Bar yesterday announced that the 2014 candidates for president-elect are Stephen Glover, a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and Timothy Webster, a partner at Sidley Au

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  • March 6, 2014 | The Recorder

    Flipboard Turns to Wilson Sonsini for Zite Buy

    PALO ALTO — Palo Alto-based Flipboard Inc. tapped Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati for legal counsel in its acquisition of CNN's magazine app Zite, which was announced this

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  • Boyd v. JohnGalt Holdings LLC

    Publication Date: 2014-03-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lindsey W. Hillis Hillis, Robison & Coffelt, and Francis X. Moore, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David H. Flint and J. Carole Thompson Hord Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Ned Blumenthal Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta.

    Case Number: S13A1429

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing the defendant to assert its compulsory counterclaim to quiet title three years after its original responsive pleading in the plaintiffs' act