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  • 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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  • May 1, 2012 |

    Dewey encourages partners to jump ship

    It looks like the bitter end may be near for embattled New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf. The remaining four members of the firms new management team, following Steven Davis ouster over the weekend amid questions surrounding his conduct and a Manhattan district attorneys office probe, sent a memo...

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  • April 2, 2012 |

    F.T.C. v. Graco Inc.: Widening the difference between merger challenges by the antitrust agencies

    Practitioners and clients have long bemoaned the fact that a merger challenge by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is procedurally different than one by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) because the differences can have a substantive effect on the outcome of the merger challenge.

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  • January 31, 2012 |

    How to review and compare corporate conduct rules

    A new free database allows users to search codes

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  • December 21, 2011 |

    Useful Review

    The court reserved words in its Keydata ruling for the U.K.’s Financial Services Authority (FSA), which legal practitioners note has been increasingly…

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  • Harris v. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference Inc.

    Publication Date: 2011-12-16
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    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

  • Keaton v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-08-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James B. McGee III McGee & McGee, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, and Michelle C. McIntire, Assistant District Attorney, Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A0566

    Georgia's stalking laws were drafted to protect people, not places, and the interim order, upon which the state relied to convict the defendant, kept the defendant from the victim's home and only in

  • 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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  • May 31, 2011 |

    CEO Failed to Prove Attorney-Client Privilege, Court Finds

    3rd Circuit ruling reminds GCs to notify employees that the company's lawyers don't represent them personally.

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  • April 6, 2011 |

    Litigation: I Thought You Were My Lawyer!

    The importance of clearly defining the scope of outside counsel's representation.

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