Archive for the ‘Audio’ Category
Griffin Circuit judicial affair discussion
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010, 5:15 pm / No Comments
Listen to a recording of the April 28 in-chambers meeting in which Griffin Circuit Judges Christopher C. Edwards and Tommy R. Hankinson discuss with DA Scott Ballard and public defenders Joseph J. Saia and W. Allen Adams Jr. the ramifications of an affair between a judge and a public defender assigned to his court. The recording was obtained from Ballard and a brief section in which the participants discuss and then dismiss rumors about an affair between Judge Paschal English and another court employee have been redacted.
VIDEO: Arch Stokes of Stokes Roberts & Wagner
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009, 2:31 pm / No Comments
Arch Stokes, president and CEO of Stokes Roberts & Wagner, has spoken to thousands of people around the world on leadership, corporate culture, trial strategy and dealing with labor unions. Here are a few excerpts from remarks he made recently to in-house counsel at a Daily Report seminar.
Scroll down to play an mp3 audio file of Stokes’ entire speech and to read his bio.
Here is the audio of the entire speech:
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Speaker bio:
Arch Stokes received his undergraduate and law degrees from Emory University, where he was managing editor of the law review. He served as a U.S. Marine Corps Judge Advocate and Military Judge during the Vietnam War, trying 200+ courts-martial.
He has litigated in over 100 jurisdictions cases involving class action wage & hour, contract, civil rights, class actions, collective bargaining, crisis management, ERISA, RICO, executive compensation, FMLA, ADA, personal injury and labor campaigns. He has been listed in various Who’s Who, Best Lawyer, Super Lawyer books as well as receiving an AV Rating in Martindale Hubbell for over 30 years. He is a trial lawyer’s trial lawyer.
Arch has spoken to thousands of people around the world on the subject of leadership, corporate culture, trial strategy, and dealing with labor unions. His expertise has been tapped by some of the most prestigious hospitality leaders in the United States, including Cornell University and the William F. Harrah Hotel College, University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he Chairman of UNLV’s Hotel School Advisory Board. Arch is a Distinguished Lecturer and Speaker for Cornell; Johnson & Wales University; University of Houston; Georgia State University; and Auburn University. He is the author of many pioneering employment law publications such as The Wage and Hour Handbook for Hotels & Restaurants (1978, updated 2007); The Equal Opportunity Handbook (1979, and under revision); and The Collective Bargaining Handbook (1981, currently under revision).
He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Academy of Hospitality Industry Attorneys, the International Society of Hospitality Consultants, the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s (AH&LA) Human Resources Committee, the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Georgia State Advisory Committee (SAC), and Chaine des Rotisseurs. Arch is a past winner of the International Platform Association’s Hal Holbrook Award, as well as the Beck Medal for Heroism. Most recently, Arch was inducted into the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
AUDIO: Judge Kravitch in her own words
Thursday, November 6th, 2008, 4:23 pm / No Comments
Here are two clips of Judge Phyllis Kravitch speaking at a recent event. Kravitch was chosen by the Daily Report’s news staff as one of Georgia’s “Legal Legends.” Please see this related article: “Kravitch blazed a path for other women lawyers.”
In this first audio clip, Judge Kravitch discusses the need for civility among lawyers:
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In the below clip, Judge Kravitch talks about the importance of mentors and her friendship with Judge Tuttle:
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AUDIO: Excerpt from Hunter-Stubbs debate
Monday, September 29th, 2008, 6:06 pm / No Comments
Below is an audio clip from the Hunter-Stubbs debate.
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AUDIO: Judge Alaimo’s Sept. 18, 2008 speech
Thursday, September 25th, 2008, 4:50 pm / No Comments
On Sept. 18, at the Ritz-Carlton in Atlanta, the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association awarded its first Anthony A. Alaimo Award for Judicial Excellence to its namesake, an 88-year-old senior federal judge from Brunswick.
You can listen to a recording of Judge Alaimo’s award acceptance speech by playing the audio clip below:
AUDIO: Willard blasts attorney ad
Friday, February 15th, 2008, 11:42 pm / No Comments
The issue of lawyers’ solicitation of Imperial Sugar victims was raised in the state Legislature on Feb. 13, 2008 when state Rep. Wendell K. Willard, R-Sandy Springs, criticized a newspaper ad in the Savannah Morning News by attorney Jeffrey D. Slakter of Dallas, Texas. Read the rest of this entry »
AUDIO: Bell spins tales of life in law, politics
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007, 11:29 pm / No Comments
At a December 2007 luncheon sponsored by the Federal Bar Association’s Atlanta chapter, former U.S. attorney general and federal appellate judge Griffin B. Bell consented to an informal and rare public conversation with King & Spalding partner Phyllis B. Sumner, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Atlanta, during which he reflected on a career that often has paralleled the rise of the New South. Read the rest of this entry »
