The Relativity Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

A recent case out of the state of Georgia illustrates the very serious consequences of serious discovery abuse. Disbarred over e-discovery violations?

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Law 360

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Two brothers who are partners in a Georgia law firm have removed a dispute concerning the potential judicial dissolution of their practice to the Georgia State-wide Business Court from a state trial court in Carroll County, Georgia.

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Patently O

APRIL 10, 2024

By Dennis Crouch In a recent unpublished decision, the Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor of CPA Global Support Services, LLC (“CPA”) (now part of Clarivate) against a claim of negligent misrepresentation brought by inventor James C. A Georgia appellate court recently affirmed that decision.

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Law 360

MAY 23, 2024

A legal marketing business has agreed to dismiss a Georgia federal lawsuit accusing an Arkansas law firm and others of stealing and profiting off its trade secrets, including a database of client leads for mass torts over talcum powder and heartburn medication.

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LegalReader

JULY 23, 2021

Georgia Court of Appeals reverses previous trial court decision and sets stage for new trial.

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Law 360

JUNE 23, 2023

The Georgia Court of Appeals on Friday rejected allegations that King & Spalding and another law firm aided in a conspiracy to oust the manager of an ear-scanning technology company by violating its operating agreement.

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Law 360

MARCH 7, 2023

A law firm that helped class representatives win a landmark $425 million data breach deal from Equifax Inc. has asked the Georgia federal judge who oversaw the multidistrict litigation to allow its challenge of co-lead counsel's $77.5 million fee allocation to proceed in a Tennessee court.

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Law 360

MARCH 7, 2023

Two brothers feuding over the judicial dissolution of their law firm fought it out in the Georgia State-wide Business Court on Tuesday, with one arguing that a receiver should be appointed to manage the firm as the suit progresses and the other contending that it isn't necessary.

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JURIST

APRIL 17, 2021

Although the letter does not name Georgia’s SB 202 , the controversial new law has reignited public cries for voting accessibility. SB 202 implements voter ID laws, limits early and absentee voting and bans volunteers from giving water or food to voters waiting in line.

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Law 360

MAY 31, 2023

A Georgia business judge who appointed a receiver to take control of the assets of two brothers squabbling over the fate of their law firm put further restrictions on their respective legal practices on Tuesday while the battle continues in court.

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Above The Law

JULY 6, 2022

Just An Old Sweet Song : The rest of the Trump gang subpoenaed in Georgia. Jailhouse Lawyer : If guys can run the mob from prison, why not a law firm? This Should Be Interesting : Pat Cipollone is testifying. Bar Exam Worries : People are concerned out there.

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ABA Journal

APRIL 13, 2021

Law firms are getting involved in the controversy over voting restrictions, already passed in Georgia and under consideration in Texas. Leaders of 62 of…

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Law 360

MARCH 13, 2023

Two nonprofit public interest law firms threw their support behind Monsanto Co., urging the full Eleventh Circuit to undo a panel's ruling that a Georgia doctor's claims the company failed to warn consumers that its Roundup weed killer could cause cancer were not preempted by federal regulations.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

There was a notable filing in the ongoing scandal in Georgia over the intimate relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Merchant identifies the witness as Terrance Bradley, who served previously as Wade’s divorce lawyer and worked in his law firm. Willis and her subordinate special prosecutor Nathan J.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He ironically created a law firm specializing in campaign ethics. He has given $53,680 to the Elias Law Group. However, weeks after the election, journalists discovered that the Clinton campaign hid payments for the dossier made to a research firm, Fusion GPS, as “legal fees” among the $5.6

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JURIST

JUNE 13, 2022

” Trump lawyer Matt Morgan relayed that law firms began to “disengage” from the Trump campaign amid allegations of voter fraud as they did not feel comfortable advancing those arguments. The former US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia B.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A Georgia federal judge on Thursday signed off on a $1 million payday for Nichols Kaster PLLP and Sanford Law Firm attorneys who secured a $4 million settlement for a huge class of workers alleging that Koch Industries Inc. saddled their retirement plan with excessive record-keeping costs.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 17, 2023

Law360 ] * It took a matter of hours for Trump supporters to publicly circulate the names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors. [ Bloomberg Law News ] * Law firms are generally uninterested in a fully remote workforce -- which is understandable in some practice areas. But in any event, they're cardiologists now, too.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 18, 2023

Now I’m not the right person to answer that question because the only time that I contemplated going to law school was when I was in a job that I didn’t like. I started the process, then went to work for a law firm and a team of lawyers that had me sitting second chair at trials, and they paid me very well.

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JURIST

MAY 5, 2021

Georgia passed a voting rights bill that imposed several barriers to accessing the polls, which has faced several lawsuits from civil rights groups. In early April, dozens of major US law firms signed on to a statement denouncing these legislative efforts to restrict voting rights.

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LawSites

JUNE 24, 2022

For the last seven years, Mighty has been a legal technology company operating a portal that helps personal injury law firms interface more seamlessly with the lienholders, such as medical providers, who have claims against their clients’ recoveries. Tackling PI Law’s ‘Incentive Problem’. What does that mean?

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LawSites

MARCH 11, 2024

On Friday I attended Transform: Justice , a program by Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab held to commemorate the full release of the Caselaw Access Project’s case law collection from all commercial restrictions , as well as to consider the future of free and open access to law. Public.Resource.Org, Inc.

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The Estrin Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Principal The Saunders Firm Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, 2009 LinkedIn. Here’s how Amber Saunders sums up what she does in her field of law: “I make trust fund babies.” You may be practicing law for a long time. In this column, we zero in on their top tips. Amber Saunders.

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LawSites

AUGUST 31, 2021

The fetch functionality is available only for the 22 state courts covered by Lex Machina’s analytics, which currently includes selected courts in California, Delaware, Georgia, Nevada, New York and Texas. Full list of covered courts.) There is no added cost beyond the user’s subscription.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 25, 2022

Regulatory reform is needed to make sure there is coverage for “legal deserts” where citizens have access to few or no law firms. A lawyer in rural North Carolina shared that his law firm was one of two in a 40-mile radius. The growth rate of law firms is flat. There are 1.3 who can do the work).

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LawSites

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Building on the two acquisitions, Clio said that Lawyaw, which already offered automated court forms for California federal and state courts, has added forms for another five states: Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York and Texas. “First and foremost, it is the lifeblood of a law firm,” he said. Clio Drive.

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LawSites

JULY 6, 2022

But one clear opportunity for scaling the company, she said, is in continuing to layer on different technologies that are important to lawyers, so that Clio can solidify its position as a one-stop shop for servicing law firms’ needs. “In the competitive landscape, the law industry is one industry.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Ebrahim is visiting at Iowa Law this semester, where he’s teaching Cybercrime & Security and Entrepreneurship Law & Ethics. His research interests are broad, and he recently completed a comparative work examining patents in Islamic law. Ebrahim is a law professor and a registered U.S. patent attorney.

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LawSites

MARCH 6, 2023

Beyond these keynote sessions, the panels spanned a balance of practical, contemporary, and future-looking subjects, with topics that ranged from the basic (such as what’s new in Word) to the current (AI and data analytics) to the next (the hybrid law firm of the future).

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 4, 2024

I actually was getting my college degree because I wanted to go on to law school. He had a friend who was the office manager at a local law firm, in Sarasota, Florida. He thought it would be good to do that in between going to law school. I ended up loving being a paralegal so much that I dropped the law school plan.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 28, 2022

The Saunders Firm. Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, 2009. Here’s how Amber Saunders sums up what she does in her field of law: “I make trust fund babies.” You may be practicing law for a long time. They ended up altogether leaving the practice of law because they were burnt out.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2022

” The FEC said the law firm, Perkins Coie, paid Fusion $1,024,407.97 Democrats used the recent Georgia election law as a rallying cry for federalizing elections by labelling the law, as described by President Biden, “Jim Crow on steroids.” for the dossier in 2016.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Building on the two acquisitions, Clio said that Lawyaw, which already offered automated court forms for California federal and state courts, has added forms for another five states: Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York and Texas. “First and foremost, it is the lifeblood of a law firm,” he said. Clio Drive.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 1, 2021

law school program to integrate business, technology and entrepreneurship into an experiential course for J.D. It is an innovative partnership between Emory Law and Georgia Tech that brings together graduate students in law, business, science and engineering. The TI:GER ® program is the first U.S.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Rick DeMedeiros , the Founder of DeMedeiros Injury Law , is a workers’ compensation lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, a certified mediator, and a YouTuber who recently started his own channel called, The Work Comp Guy. Is success in the law dependent on going to a top-tier school? – Chere Estrin. Absolutely not.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Target customer: In-house legal departments and law firm attorneys who serve as outside general counsel. Target customer: Law departments in 2022 and expanding into law firms in 2023. Elevator pitch: Affordable cybersecurity solutions are lacking and 29% of law firms have suffered a security breach.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Was Travis McMichael acting outside of the legal (and moral) bounds when he, in the course of allegedly effecting a “citizen’s arrest” after a claimed trespass on a Georgia construction site, took unarmed Ahmaud Arbery’s life? He is currently a partner at private law firm. Between 2004 and 2006, he worked for the U.S.

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