Andy Howard was quoted in a Los Angeles Daily Journal article discussing the sequestration and how it may impact California’s many government contracts.
March 18, 2013
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Lisa Gilford, partner and co-chair of the firm’s Products Liability Group, was extensively interviewed for a question-and-answer session by Law360. In the interview, Gilford discussed her challenging cases, relevant issues to her practice, fellow litigators she admires and the importance of seasoned litigators to be able to handle surprises and to be prepared for the unknown.
March 15, 2013
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In its publicly released rankings for 2013, Chambers USA has again listed Alston & Bird’s Privacy & Data Security practice among the nation’s leading practices. Alston & Bird’s privacy and data security practice has been recognized every year since Chambers & Partners began ranking this practice area on a nationwide basis.
March 14, 2013
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Jim Grant, a partner in Alston & Bird’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group who focuses on complex commercial litigation, was inducted on March 2 as a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL), widely considered to be the premier professional trial organization in America.
March 13, 2013
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On February 27, Alston & Bird’s Kim Peretti spoke at the 2013 RSA conference. Following the conference, Kim was interviewed by BankInfoSecurity about her discussion during the conference.
March 7, 2013
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John Hickman’s comments at an annual conference sponsored by the Employers Council on Flexible Compensation (ECFC) were featured in Bloomberg BNA, which discussed employer-sponsored health care plans and tracking employees’ work hours and other paid service hours to comply with the Affordable Care Act.
March 6, 2013
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Todd McClelland, partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Group, was quoted in a Productivity@Work article discussing small and medium-sized business considerations for migrating existing operations to a cloud-based computing solution.
March 6, 2013
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Kim Peretti, co-lead of the Security Incident Management & Response Team, appeared on MSNBC’s UP w/ Chris Hayes on February 23, 2013, joining in a debate on cyberwarfare and cybersecurity.
February 23, 2013
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Shiraz Tangri, a partner in the firm’s Environmental & Land Use Group who represents Los Angeles Streetcar, Inc., was interviewed for his expertise and determination in implementing a streetcar project downtown to make it a more pedestrian-friendly environment and to revitalize the city’s core.
February 22, 2013
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Ryan Koppelman, partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Group, was quoted in a Daily Journal article discussing the Oracle v. Google case, which is on appeal to the Federal Circuit after Google had a defensive win in district court. He offered some opinions on what would happen next.
February 21, 2013
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Edward Kang, partner in the firm’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group and former federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division, was quoted in The FCPA Report in an article discussing ways individual defendants can use “strategic cooperation” to mitigate FCPA sentences.
February 20, 2013
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Alston & Bird was recently recognized as the 2012 Law Firm of the Year by Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta, an organization that pairs volunteer attorneys with nonprofits in need of free legal services.
February 20, 2013
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Jason Cooper was quoted in a Corporate Counsel article discussing fundamental changes to U.S. patent law will be implemented beginning on March 16—the so-called “Ides of March”—including a national move to a “first-inventor-to-file” patent system, a major change from the current “first-to-invent” system.
February 19, 2013
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Alston & Bird has been invited to be the first and only law firm to participate among 68 global financial services firms in the CFA Institute’s inaugural Claritas Investment Certificate (“Claritas”) program.
February 19, 2013
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Alston & Bird was ranked Band 1 for “Environmental Law” and “Litigation – Environmental” nationally, as well as in Los Angeles and Atlanta locally, by U.S. News - Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” 2013.
February 19, 2013
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Zach Gladney, senior associate in the firm’s State and Local Tax Group, was quoted in a State Tax Notes article discussing Section 18 of the Uniform Division of Income for Tax Purposes Act (UDITPA), which provides a variety of methods by which a statutory apportionment formula could be changed, and what would be considered reasonable proposed alternative methods.
February 18, 2013
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Bernard Taylor, partner and co-chair of the firm’s Products Liability Group in the Atlanta office, was named to BTI’s Client Service All-Star list. The list was based on more than 250 interviews of in-house counsel throughout corporate America, and Taylor was one of only 11 products liability attorneys nationwide selected for the honor.
February 15, 2013
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In an IPLaw360 article discussing The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) unveiling of final rules governing the first-to-file patent system that will go into effect in March, Jason Cooper was quoted as saying the proposed rules seemed to be overly restrictive and made it difficult for inventors to take advantage of the grace period.
February 14, 2013
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An Alston & Bird team led by Washington, D.C. corporate transactions and securities partner Keith E. Gottfried recently represented publicly traded, Nasdaq-listed Qualstar Corporation in connection with its receipt of an unsolicited partial tender offer by BKF Capital Group, Inc., an entity controlled by Steven N. Bronson.
February 14, 2013
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The Lawyers Alliance for New York has recognized three Alston & Bird attorneys—Lance Soderstrom, Mwanga William Mtengule and Maritza Schaeffer—for pro bono services rendered to FamilyCook Community Table (dba FamilyCook Productions), a New York-based nonprofit that provides culinary/nutritional education programs.
February 13, 2013
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