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  • March 28, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Spinmeister: David Lam | Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

    Splitting Abbott Labs in half was an undertaking of historic proportions: The Wachtell team had to spin off and finance a brand-new $54 billion pharma

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  • 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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  • State v. James

    Publication Date: 2013-02-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Raina J. Nadler, Roswell, and Barbara M. Collins, Riverdale, for appellees.
    Case Number: S12A1650

    The trial court erred in granting new trials to the defendants on the special ground that their lack of access to one page of the medical examiner's report was a Brady violation, as the defendants

  • Clarke v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-01-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dell Jackson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0021

    The evidence showed that the 74-year-old victim's head injury, which the defendant inflicted, was the underlying process that started the ball rolling in a continuous downhill course, culminating in

  • November 14, 2012 |

    ‘Broad Exclusion’ for Claims Arising Out of Assault and Battery Upheld by Court

    Claims for injuries allegedly suffered from a fight outside a nightclub are excluded by the assault and battery exclusion, a federal district court has…

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  • November 5, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    July 2012 Bar Pass List

    AARON-COOPER, MELISSA VANESSAABAEV, NISSIM ABBOTT, CHRISTOPHER JOHNABBOTT, MAXWELL ROLLERABBOTT III, CHARLES LINCOLNABDEL-ALEEM, YUSSUF SALAHABDEL-RAHMAN,

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  • September 22, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Judicial Biographies — Vicinage 5 — Essex

    Bernstein, Stephen J.Current Assignment: FamilyAppointed: 2001Tenure: Jan. 31, 200

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  • September 22, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Judicial Biographies — Vicinage 5 — Essex

    Biographies for Vicinage 5.

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  • September 13, 2012 |

    Court vacates $10.6 million malpractice judgment against Bryan Cave

    A New York appeals court has vacated a verdict in which a jury found that the law firm Bryan Cave must pay $10.6 million for malpractice.

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