Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

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Kilpatrick Stockton LLP is a full-service international law firm with more than 500 attorneys in nine offices across the globe: Atlanta and Augusta, GA; Charlotte, Raleigh and Winston-Salem, NC; Columbia, SC; New York, NY; Washington, DC; London, England and Stockholm, Sweden. Kilpatrick Stockton's delivery of innovative business solutions provides results-oriented counsel for corporations, from the challenging demands of financial transactions and securities to the disciplines of intellectual property management. Collaboration among Kilpatrick Stockton's corporate, tax, employment and employee benefit attorneys provides knowledgeable and proactive guidance for companies at every stage of the business life cycle.

General Practice including Civil, Trial and Appellate Practice in all Courts. Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Arbitration and Mediation, Aviation, Banking, Business Transactions, Charitable Foundations, Communications, Construction Law, Copyright, Corporations, Creditors' Rights, Criminal Defense and Special Matters, Employee Benefits, Entertainment, Environmental and Natural Resources, Finance, Financial Restructuring, Franchising, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Health Care, Health and Life Sciences, Immigration, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International Arbitration, International Business, Labor and Employment, Latin American, Litigation, Medical Malpractice Defense, Mergers and Acquisitions, Municipal Finance, Patent, Patent Litigation, Probate, Products Liability Litigation, Public Utility, Real Estate, Securities, Taxation, Technology, Trademark, Trust and Estates, and Unfair Competition.

Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act
Joseph M. Beck, G. William Austin, Michael A. Kaeding, August 26, 2008
Responding to public outrage, the House and Senate overwhelmingly (424:1 and 89:3, respectively) passed the most significant consumer safety legislation in more than 30 years.

Georgia Supreme Court Rules That Limitation of Liability Clause in Engineer's Contract Is Unenforceable Under Statute Restricting Indemnity Provisions in Construction Contracts
Randall F. Hafer, R. Lee Mann, Hayley Ambler, August 20, 2008
O.C.G.A. § 13-8-2 invalidates any provision in a construction contract by which a party indemnifies or holds harmless another party for bodily injury or property damage caused by the other party's sole negligence.

New York Court Rules That eBay Cannot Be Held Responsible for Listing and Sale of Counterfeit Tiffany Items By eBay Sellers
Theodore H. Davis, Virginia S. Taylor, Lisa S. Pearson, J. David Mayberry, William M. Bryner, August 12, 2008
The steady growth in the distribution of legitimate merchandise over the Internet has been accompanied by the increasing use of that medium for sales of counterfeit goods.

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