• May 4, 2012 |

    Risk Management

    Discusses areas where D & O risk management practices should be applied and offers specific recommendations for reducing or eliminating some exposures.

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  • Jenkins v. Wachovia Bank NA

    Publication Date: 2012-03-02
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Kytle, Atlanta, David Humphreys and Paul Catalano Humphreys Wallace Humphreys PC, Tulsa, Okla., for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert R. Ambler Jr. and John G. Perry Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice PLLC, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A11A2053

    The plaintiff's complaint set for claim for negligence and negligence per se based on a teller's actions in improperly accessing the plaintiff's confidential inform

  • Harris v. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference Inc.

    Publication Date: 2011-12-16
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thelma M. Moore Moore Law LLC, Atlanta, and Mary K. Durant, Tucker, for appellants. Charles A. Mathis Jr. The Mathis Law Firm, J. Christopher Simpson Simpson Law Offices LLP, Marian P. Johnson Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, and Marion T. Pope Jr. Hasty Pope LLC, Canton, for appellees.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A1149

    The Court affirmed the permanent injunction entered against six current or former board members of a n fit corporation, enjoining them from interfering with corporate governance and use of the

  • August 4, 2011 |

    Risk Management

    Discusses areas where D & O risk management practices should be applied and offers specific recommendations for reducing or eliminating some exposures.

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  • June 27, 2011 | National Law Journal

    WASHINGTON'S MOST INFLUENTIAL IN-HOUSE ATTORNEYS

    The issues these top lawyers have handled range from the momentous, such as whether the United States should go to war, to the less serious (though still notable), such as how to draft multim

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  • Gwinnett County Sch. Dist. v. Cox

    Publication Date: 2011-06-24
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles P. Aaron, Gerald M. Edenfield, Susan W. Cox Edenfield, Cox, Bruce & Classens PC, Statesboro, T. Joshua R. Archer, Michael J. Bowers, Joshua M. Moore Balch & Bingham LLP, Thomas A. Cox, Atlanta, Santana T. Flanigan, A.J. Welch Jr. Smith, Welch & Brittain LLP, McDonough, and Timothy N. Shepherd, Griffin, for appellants. Bruce P. Brown, Ellen C. Carothers, Jeremy T. Berry McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Stefan E. Ritter, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Judson H. Turner and Robert L. Fortson Turner, Bachman & Garrett LLC, Marietta, for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Phillip L. Hartley, Martha M. Pearson Harben, Hartley & Hawkins LLP, Gainesville, and Michael E. Kramer Buckley & Klein LLP, Atlanta. Amicus Appellee: Sarina M. Russotto Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Joshua B. Belinfante, Alexia R. Ross Robbinsfreed, Atlanta, Michael M. Middleton, Mark D. Johnson Gilbert, Harrell, Sumerford & Martin PC, Brunswick, and Andrew W. Broy, Oak Park, Ill.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S10A1773

    The state constitution grants exclusive control of K-12 public education to local county and area boards of education and the 2008 Georgia Charter Schools Commission Act clearly and palpably violat

  • April 30, 2011 |

    In-House Career Changes

    GC career moves.

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  • March 14, 2011 | National Law Journal

    D.C. CALENDAR

    Tuesday, March 15 Jury Selection: The District of Columbia Bar presents "A Jury of Your Peers? Race, Ethnicity and the Jury Selection Process."

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  • March 7, 2011 | National Law Journal

    D.C. CALENDAR

    Tuesday, March 8 Discovery: The District of Columbia Bar's Continuing Legal Education program and 11 sections present "Dealing With Annoying an

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