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Squires Patton Boggs Opens Atlanta Office

Squires Patton Boggs, one of the world’s largest law firms, has planted its flag in Atlanta, hiring away three partners from Dentons, another giant that entered Atlanta just a few years ago through an acquisition. 

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France’s Southeast U.S. Rep Switches Party and Forms Law Firm With Political Ally

The twists and turns of French electoral politics send out repercussions as far as Atlanta where the law partners Dominique Lemoine and Frederic Lefebvre have abandoned their allegiance to France’s Republican party in a move partially motivated in response to France’s National Front far-right party, which is following policies made popular in the U.S. by […]

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Books 2017: How the Irish and American Supreme Courts Grew Up Together

Book: The Supreme Court Author: Ruadhán Mac Cormaic Review by: Shane Stephens, consul general of Ireland in Atlanta I picked up this worthy-looking book during my summer holidays in the West of Ireland to address my lack of knowledge about a core part of the Irish State. But a duty quickly became an obsession. I […]

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Books 2017: Justice as a Bellwether of Human Well-Being

Book title : Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? Author : Michael J. Sandel Review by: Ahmet Bozer, former executive vice president of the Coca-Cola Co. and president of Coca-Cola International Since the 2007-08 financial crisis, I have been thinking that we are in transition from one human era to another. Events throughout 2017 […]

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Head of Arbitration Center to Step Down, Return to International Law Practice

The head of the Atlanta Center for International Arbitration and Mediation is leaving the post to return to practicing international law. Shelby Grubbs will become a managing member in Miller & Martin PLLC’s Atlanta office, where he will lead its international commercial dispute resolution practice. Mr. Grubbs was the first leader for the center, which was […]

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Atlanta Customs Office Ordered to Speed Up Release of Trump ‘Travel Ban’ Documents

A federal court in Atlanta on Wednesday ordered the local U.S. Customs and Border Protection office to speed up the release of documents related to the treatment of travelers during the early days of President Donald Trump’s so-called travel ban.  The ACLU of Georgia sued to gain quicker access to what it says are more than 17,100 pages of documents, […]

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One Year In, Trump’s ‘America First’ Immigration Approach Slows Access to Skilled Labor

Editor’s note: This sponsored commentary was written by Kevin Miner, a partner at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, whose Atlanta office is a Global Atlanta annual sponsor.  As we approach the end of the first year of the Trump administration, employers are beginning to feel the practical effects of its “America First” approach […]

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Employing Foreign Graduates: What Companies Should Know

Editor’s note: The following is a sponsored commentary by Fragomen associate Janora L. Hawkins.  With President Donald Trump focused on raising the skill level of immigrants entering the U.S., many lawmakers agree that some low-hanging fruit exists in the form of foreign graduates coming out of U.S. universities. American companies, especially in the high-tech and […]

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Q&A: Keeping Data Safe in the Age of Monster Breaches

Editor’s note: Breaches happen all the time in the world of digital commerce, but a hack of Atlanta-based Equifax earlier this year was not your normal, run-of-the-mill data heist.  One distinguishing factor was the size of the breach, which was said to have exposed personal records of more than 146 million Americans — nearly half […]

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When Laws Fail: UGA Law Student Asseses Ghana’s Domestic Violence Act

Editor’s note: The following is a commentary piece written by Zack Lindsey, a second-year law student at the University of Georgia who participated in the global externship program this summer. Disclosure: The law school’s Dean Rusk Center for International Law, which runs the program, is a Global Atlanta advertiser.  Ten years ago, Ghana passed the […]

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