Daily Report

08/22/2025

Low-Income Parents in Georgia Sue to Halt Child Support Fees After Kids Are in Foster Care

The lawsuit primarily targets the Division of Family and Children Services, which is under the state's Department of Human Services.

08/22/2025

Holland & Knight, Greenberg Traurig Leases in the Southeast Are Among the Largest in U.S. This Year

As nationwide law firm leasing hits its highest level since 2018, two high-ranking Am Law 100 firms are among the largest consumers of office space.

08/22/2025

"Regardless of his motive—pandering to his base, distraction from the bedeviling Epstein files fiasco, race baiting or owning the libs as political theater—it is historically, legally and morally inaccurate and dangerous to suggest that American slavery was anything other than pure evil," writes Mike Kenny, Atlanta attorney and author of the novel "Life’s Illusions."

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: 🔗

An Atlanta attorney writes that the honest teaching of slavery serves as a painful, yet necessary, reminder of the consequences of forgetting that all Americans are created equal.

08/22/2025

Commentary: Slavery Was Evil—Period

An Atlanta attorney writes that "the honest teaching of slavery serves as a painful, yet necessary, reminder of the consequences of forgetting that all Americans are created equal."

08/22/2025

ICYMI. Law Firm Leasing Hits Highest Peak Since 2018
http://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2025/08/20/law-firm-leasing-hits-highest-peak-since-2018-/

08/22/2025

Houston trial lawyer Cameron Byrd of AZA turned his love of running into a way to serve. He volunteers as a guide for blind runners in long distance races.

The hobby not only benefits the visually impaired runners he teams up but also makes him a better lawyer, he said. He spoke recently with litigation reporter Laura Lorek about his experiences and why he got into it in the first place.

𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: 🔗 https://www.law.com/2025/08/15/on-the-run-aza-laws-cameron-byrd-guides-blind-athletes/

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: 🔗 https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2025/06/23/houston-trial-lawyer-guides-blind-runners/

08/22/2025

How a trial with high stakes, $3m in medical bills, a deadlocked jury, led to Cobb County settlement.

From reporter Alex Anteau: 🔗 https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2025/08/21/how-a-trial-with-high-stakes-3m-in-medical-bills-a-deadlocked-jury-led-to-cobb-county-settlement/

08/22/2025

ICYMI. Four days a week for corporate lawyers at DLA Piper. DLA Piper global co-chair, global co-CEO and Americas chair Frank Ryan said that allowing individual practice areas to dictate their own attendance requirements allowed them to adjust for their needs.
https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2025/08/18/dla-piper-increases-in-office-requirement-for-us-corporate-lawyers/

08/21/2025

On the 2025 A-List, top performers have shown stability, with the same firms repeatedly staying in the mix. Reporter Andrew Maloney writes that some of that consistency is likely to be tested.

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: 🔗 https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2025/08/13/the-a-list-built-on-stability-enters-an-unstable-era-in-big-law/

08/21/2025

How a Trial With High Stakes, $3M in Medical Bills, a Deadlocked Jury, Led to Cobb County Settlement

“We've always been able to resolve our cases. That's been our practice. But this one, while we both worked to get it resolved, we just couldn't make it happen,” defense attorney Matthew Moffett said.

08/21/2025

Chatham County Probate Judge Thomas C. Bordeaux Jr. admits he failed to "fairly, promptly, and efficiently dispose" of cases before him. But, he argues, his conduct did not amount to a failure to perform his judicial duties diligently.

The jurist is set to have a two-day ethics proceeding before the Judicial Qualifications Commission of Georgia Hearing Panel beginning at 9 a.m. Aug. 25.

Representing Bordeaux on the ethics case are Cartersville attorney Lester Tate of Akin & Tate, P.C. and Matthew Wilson of Bell Wilson Law in Atlanta.

Litigation reporter Cedra Mayfield has details of the charges and what to expect at the hearing: 🔗 https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2025/08/21/judge-admits-to-delayed-rulings-but-denies-dereliction-as-ethics-trial-looms/

08/21/2025

A King & Spalding memo on "productive hours" for associates is causing a stir, but does it break with industry standard? Legal recruiters spoke with reporter Tom Spigolon about a law firm formally requiring associates to devote a specific number of hours to “firm citizenship” activities.

"While firms may track non-billable contributions like business development and recruiting, they typically don't mandate specific thresholds for these activities," said Waqar Khawaja, Esq. of Atlanta-based legal industry consulting and recruiting firm Khawaja Partners.

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: 🔗 https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2025/08/21/a-king--spalding-memo-on-productive-hours-for-associates-is-causing-a-stir-but-does-it-break-with-industry-standard/