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  • November 1, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    How Do You Say "Troll" in Finnish?

    They call me a troll, Wealth sucker of the giant, Destroyer of the storm-

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  • October 31, 2013 | The Recorder

    Governor Vetting More People for First District Slots

    SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Jerry Brown has added two veteran superior court judges and a youthful public interest attorney into the mix for vaca

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  • October 31, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    With No 'Chicken' in Sight, Roosters Became Fair Game

    Suffolk County police officers who were looking for "chicken"—code for cocaine—but instead discovered live fighting roosters did not run afoul of the Fourth Ame

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  • 172 Madison (NY) LLC v. NMP-Group, LLC, 650087/2010

    Publication Date: 2013-10-30
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    Court: Supreme Court, New York County, Part 54
    Judge: Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For plaintiff: John Doherty and Michael P. De Simone, of Counsel, Alston & Bird LLP.
    for defendant: For defendant: Victor A. Warms, of Counsel, Natalia Pirogova, the Val Firm.
    Case Number: 650087/2010

    Cite as: 172 Madison (NY) LLC v. NMP-Group, LLC, 650087/2010, NYLJ 1202625413666, at *1 (Sup., NY, Decided October 3, 2013) 650087/2010 Justice Sh

  • October 30, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Betty Weinberg Ellerin

    img alt="" src="/image/ny/specials/NYLJ_Achievers/125_anniv/Betty_Weinberg_Ellerin.jpg" style="margin: 2px 10px 0px 0px; width: 300px; height: 450px; float: le

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  • October 18, 2013 | Special To Law.Com

    The Culture Of Changing Sides

    As a neophyte lawyer, I would pester my father -- a files-piled-to-the-ceiling practitioner -- with anecdotes of my own nascent, incipient and meager, law practice. I was inexperienced, una

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  • HWA Props. Inc. v. Community & S. Bank

    Publication Date: 2013-08-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Brooks Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Bret Thrasher and Aaron Kappler Thompson, O'Brien, Kemp & Nasuti PC, Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0047

    The bank was not entitled to a deficiency judgment on the note as it failed to comply with the confirmation requirements of O.C.G.A. § 44-1

  • Brooks Peanut Co. Inc. v. Great S. Peanut LLC

    Publication Date: 2013-07-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nowell Berreth Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, and R. Edgar Campbell Perry & Walters, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Peeler Flynn Peeler & Phillips LLC, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0633

    A broker's written confirmation of a commodities transaction was sufficient to satisfy the Statute of F

  • Gila River Indian Community v. United States

    Publication Date: 2013-05-20
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    Date Filed: 2013-05-20
    Court: 9th Cir.
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: No. 11-15631

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 5012GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY, a federally recogni

  • Murtagh v. Emory Univ.

    Publication Date: 2013-04-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lauren Goodhart Goodhart Law Firm, Jami Kohn Weinstock & Scavo PC, and Mark Spix, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Todd Wozniak, Lindsey Edelmann Greenberg Traurig LLP, and Theodore Eichelberger Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A12A2127

    The trial court erred in its imposition of a $15K fine, since it constituted an adjudication of criminal contempt in excess of $500 per act authorized under O.C.G.A. § 15-6-8 subsect