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  • April 25, 2012 |

    Slideshow: Day 2 of SuperConference

    Highlights from the second day of the 12th annual SuperConference

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  • April 24, 2012 |

    GCs discuss arbitration in a post-Concepcion environment

    Since last years landmark Supreme Court decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, companies have been looking more seriously at incorporating arbitration agreements in the employment context.

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  • March 29, 2012 | Law.com Corporate

    Grais and Client Suffer Another Blow As Countrywide Suit is Tossed

    Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kapnick dismissed as premature a lawsuit against Countrywide brought by David Grais and his client Walnut Place, which tried to force Countrywide to buy back

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  • March 27, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    No Supreme Court Relief for Tobacco Companies in Engle Litigation

    President Obama's health care reform law was the big story for most people at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday

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  • February 4, 2012 | Law.com Corporate

    Carlyle Group Abandons Bid to Stave Off Class Actions Ahead of IPO

    On Friday, in the face of pressure from securities regulators and investors and a skittish plaintiffs bar, The Carlyle Group announced it was abandoning a controversial provision in its IPO documen

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  • October 31, 2011 |

    8 Supreme Court cases to watch

    A look inside the high court's business docket

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  • Stripling v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-08-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David T. Wooten, George P. Word, Georgia Capital Defender, Atlanta, Mitchell D. Raup, David M. Gossett and Carl J. Summers Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, D.C., for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, Jeffrey L. Ballew, James A. Dooley and W. Thomas Weathers III, Assistant District Attorneys, Douglasville, for appellee. Amicus Appellee: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Sabrina D. Graham, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S11A0474

    The trial court erred in ruling that it was unconstitutional to place the burden on defendants to prove their mental retardation beyond a reasonable

  • Cotton v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2011-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randolph A. Mayer and Mark Harper Payer & Harper LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth D. Jones and Kevin A. Leipow Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A11A0390

    The trial court erred in holding that a school official's duties related to the release of children from school were discretionary, not minist

  • November 30, 2010 |

    Year in Review 2010

    A look back at the top 20 stories that affected in-house counsel

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  • October 31, 2010 |

    Court Decision Could Block Alien Tort Statute Claims Against Corporations

    An appeals court ruling may change future ATS litigation concerning human rights violations.

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