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Obarski Order On Defendant Elizabeth Elting's Motion To Dismiss For Lack Of Personal Jurisdiction, Melvin K. Westmoreland

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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In Re Endochoice Holdings, Inc. Order On Motions To Dismiss, Elizabeth E. Long

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Glen W. Rollins Et Al Order On Defendants' Motion For Summary Judgment, Melvin K. Westmoreland

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Strategic Jubiliee Holdings, Llc Et Al Order On Defendants' Motion To Strike, Elizabeth E. Long

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Gerber Products Co. Order On Plaintiff's Motion To Compel Discovery, Alice D. Bonner

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Gross Endowment Trust, Llc Et Al., Order On Defendants' Motion For Summary Judgment, Alice D. Bonner

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Robert L. Nix Order On Motion For Attorney's Fees, John J. Goger

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Ainealem "Alex" Gidewon And Ag Entertainment, Inc. Order On Defendants' Second Motion For Summary Judgment, John J. Goger

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Drummond Financial Services Llc Et Al., Order On Discovery Disputes, John J. Goger

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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The Ethics Of Representing Founders, Paul R. Tremblay

William & Mary Business Law Review

Lawyers assisting entrepreneurial startups frequently work with individual founders before any formal organizational client materializes. In advising founders about such legal matters as whether to establish an entity, and if so, which entity best fits the needs of the enterprise, as well as how to arrange the owners’ relationships within the business, the lawyer necessarily has an attorney-client relationship with someone. The prevailing scholarship about startup representation pays surprisingly little attention to the posture of the lawyer and her founder-clients in the pre-organization context. This Article investigates the lawyer’s responsibilities and commitments in depth.

A lawyer working with a solo …

Morris Hardwick Schneider Llc Et Al Order On Plaintiffs' Motion To Dismiss Defendant Hardwick's Counterclaims And Motions For Protective Order And Stay, Melvin K. Westmoreland

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Drummond Financial Services Llc Order On Defendants' Motion For Partial Stay, John J. Goger

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Pulte Home Corporation Order On Defendant' Choate Construction Company's Motion For Partial Summary Judgment, John J. Goger

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Gross Endowment Trust Llc, Roy Dickson Order On Plaintiffs' Motion To Compel Second Deposition Of Non-Party Fortress Investment Group, Llc, Alice D. Bonner

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Samaca, Llc, Order On Defendants' Motion To Dismiss Complaint And Compel Arbitration, Alice D. Bonner

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Bsl Holdings, Llc Et Al., Order On Third Party Defendants' Motion To Dismiss, Elizabeth E. Long

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Governance Interactions In Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Errol Meidinger

Transnational Business Governance Interactions Working Papers

“Supply chains” are a major site of transnational business governance, and yet their dynamics and effectiveness are usually more assumed than interrogated in regulatory governance discourse. The very term “chain” implies a more determinist and simplistic understanding of supply relationships than is empirically supportable. Supply chains in practice are complex, dynamic, and highly variable networks. Based on peer-group presentations by over 60 supply chain professionals, this paper analyzes sustainable supply chain management practices in terms of the interactions conceptions of the Transnational Business Governance Interactions framework. It discusses possible refinements of the framework and suggests that sustainable supply chain management …

The Responsibility Gap In Corporate Crime, Samuel W. Buell

Faculty Scholarship

In many cases of criminality within large corporations, senior management does not commit the operative offense — or conspire or assist in it — but nonetheless bears serious responsibility for the crime. That responsibility can derive from, among other things, management’s role in cultivating corporate culture, in failing to police effectively within the firm, and in accepting lavish compensation for taking the firm’s reins. Criminal law does not include any doctrinal means for transposing that form of responsibility into punishment. Arguments for expanding doctrine — including broadening of the presently narrow “responsible corporate officer” doctrine — so as to authorize …

Coordinating Compliance Incentives, Veronica Root

Faculty Scholarship

In today’s regulatory environment, a corporation engaged in wrongdoing can be sure of one thing: regulators will point to an ineffective compliance program as a key cause of institutional misconduct. The explosion in the importance of compliance is unsurprising given the emphasis that governmental actors — from the Department of Justice, to the Securities and Exchange Commission, to even the Commerce Department — place on the need for institutions to adopt “effective compliance programs.” The governmental actors that demand effective compliance programs, however, have narrow scopes of authority. DOJ Fraud handles violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, while the …

Bsl Holdings, Llc Et Al., Order On Defendants' Motions To Dismiss And Motions For More Definite Statement, Elizabeth E. Long

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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In Pursuit Of Good & Gold: Data Observations Of Employee Ownership & Impact Investment, Christopher Geczy, Jessica S. Jeffers, David K. Musto, Anne M. Tucker

Faculty Publications By Year

A startup's path to self-sustaining profitability is risky and hard, and most do not make it. Venture capital (VC) investors try to improve these odds with contractual terms that focus and sharpen employees' incentives to pursue gold. If the employees and investors expect the startup to balance the goal of profitability with another goal - the goal of good - the risks are likely to both grow and multiply. They grow to the extent that profits are threatened, and they multiply to the extent that balancing competing goals adds a dimension to the incentive problem. In this Article, we explore …

The Fiduciary Enterprise Of Corporate Law, Christopher Bruner

Scholarly Works

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Marquetta Carzell Et Al., Order On Defendants' Motion To Dismiss, Or In The Alternative For Judgment On The Pleadings, John J. Goger

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Purchasing Power, Llc Order On Bluestem Brands, Inc.'S Motion To Dismiss The Tortious Interference And Unjust Enrichment Claims And Plaintiff's Cross-Motion To Strike References To Vacated Summary Judgment Order, Melvin K. Westmoreland

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Dong Feng Fang Et Al. Order Denying Plaintiffs' Motion For Partial Summary Judgment As To Liability And Compensatory Damages, Melvin K. Westmoreland

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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The Principle Of Subsidiarity And The Law Of The Family Business, Scott Fitzgibbon

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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Piedmont/Maple, Llc Et Al., Order On Plaintiffs' Motion For Summary Judgment On Defendant's Counterclaims, Motion To Exclude Opinion Information And Testimony, And Motion To Strike Affidavit Of David L. Eichenblatt, John J. Goger

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Equitrade International, Inc. Et Al., Order, John J. Goger

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Runzhou Zhang Et Al., Final Order And Judgment, Melvin K. Westmoreland

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Uas Investments Llc Order On Uas Investments, Llc's Motion To Compel, Elizabeth E. Long

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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