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Three lawyers accused of taking more than $65 million from their former clients could not give their clients details about a 2001 diet drug settlement because it would have violated a confidentiality clause, an expert in class-action litigation testified Monday.

After spending his entire career in private practice at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, Richard L. Robbins launched his own firm, RobbinsLaw, with three former Sutherland lawyers, on May 1. The firm will handle litigation and regulatory work, including business and real estate litigation as well as environmental, employee covenant and trade secrets work.

The charter school movement is growing rapidly around the state and the country by putting business principles and results to work in school management. But in Georgia as well as a number of other states, the person charged with oversight of charter schools is neither an education administrator nor a business person, but a lawyer.

NASCAR Lawyer Says His Client Hopes to Get Issue Worked Out ASAP, with AT&T Honoring 11th Circuit’s Opinion

Arbitrators ruled Thursday in favor of former Bank of Anderson President and Chief Executive Officer David King, saying that the terms of his employment agreement were breached with his firing in January 2006.

Cherokee Foods was a minority-owned supplier who had contracted with schools across the country, including in Lexington County, South Carolina.

A minority-owned food manufacturer is suing one of the world’s largest privately held food manufacturing companies for millions of dollars in damages.