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  • May 20, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

    Summer Associates - charts

    By the NumbersTexas Lawyer invited the 25 firms with the largest operations in the state to participate in the 2013 Summer Associate Hiring Survey. The size and mix of summer associa

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  • April 29, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

    The Texas 100 - 2013

    Related:• Energy Work Drives Firms' Financials• a h

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  • Garcia v. Shaw Indus. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-04-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brent Savage, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amy Auffant, Stanford Wilson, Porsche Leonce, and William Deveney Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1667

    The plaintiff failed to show that her former employer acted out of malice when it filed an administrative fraud complaint with the Georgia State Board of Workers' Compensation alleging that she was

  • Allison v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-04-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Minerva Cansino Public Defender's Office, Dallas, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald Donovan, District Attorney, and Dana Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Dallas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1990

    The rule of construction authorized the trial court to consider the defendant's multiple felonies in connection with his prob revoc

  • Brinkley v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-03-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Reba Barton Child Law & Policy Center, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Clifford Bowden, District Attorney, Tifton, for appellee. Amicus Curiae: Sandra Michaels, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A12A2322

    The trial court did not violate the defendant's constitutional right to due process in failing to sua sponte assess the defendant's competency, since no evidence raised a reasonable doubt as to whet

  • Georgia Dep't of Transp. v. Bae

    Publication Date: 2013-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Robert Edwards, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Nancy Gallagher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and C. Bradford Sears Sanders, Haugen & Sears, Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: William White Smith, Welch, Webb & White, McDonough, for appellees.
    Case Number: A12A2493

    Because the DOT did nothing to the roads abutting the plaintiffs' business and did not terminate or obstruct their access to those roads, the plaintiffs' injury resulting from a re-routing of highwa

  • February 25, 2013 |

    In-house career changes

    Notable moves in the corporate legal world

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  • February 25, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

    Movers and Shakers: Firms Put Emphasis on Lateral Hire Integration

    Once the wining and dining, the vetting and the negotiations are over, the process of successfully adding a lateral partner to a firm really begins."It takes two years for a firm t

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  • January 30, 2013 |

    8 noteworthy in-house career moves

    Charting some of the most recent GC and in-house appointments

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  • Norman v. Gober

    Publication Date: 2013-01-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen C. Andrews, John H. Killeen Bodker Ramsey Andrews Winograd & Wildstein PC, Atlanta, and John M. Sheftall Hatcher Stubbs Land Hollis & Rothschild, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Floyd E. Propst, Laura K. Bonander, Wade H. Watson Caldwell & Watson LLP, Karen D. Fultz Cozen O'Connor, Atlanta, Dana C. Ashford The Ashford Law Firm LLC, Decatur, and Kirby G. Mason Hunter MaClean Exley & Dunn PC, Savannah, for appellees. Other party representation: Charles Gober, Fort Worth, Texas, Leila Norman, New York, N.Y., and Michael Gober, Charleston, S.C.
    Case Number: S12A1728

    The co-executors were entitled to seek a declaration to ascertain the facts surrounding an 11-year-old caveator's challenge to his maternal grandmother's will, since, if the caveator's filing was at