What if you made partner, and no one slapped you on the back? No one congratulated you? Your mother had nothing to brag about?

What if you made partner, and no one told the Daily Report?

Don’t let that happen. If you recently made partner, make sure you are counted in the Daily Report’s annual new partners special coverage. Take our online survey and, if you’re up for it, tell us how to reach you for your close-up.

This piece by the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein outlines the history behind Emmet Bondurant’s fight against Senate filibusters.

Who doesn’t love a head start? The Daily Report is opening our annual call for On the Rise nominations a little early this year.

Loyal AtLaw blog, AM/PM Alerts, Twitter and Facebook followers will have an extra week to tell us why we should introduce Atlanta’s legal community to a rising star lawyer under the age of 40 (as of our Aug. 27, 2012 publication date.) Prove to us why the young lawyer who caught your attention is the one we all need to watch!

We will accept nominations until 11:59 p.m. on June 8, 2012. To nominate your pick, click here. (The link will be posted to DailyReportOnline.com on May 8.) And watch for our On the Rise picks on Aug. 27, 2012.

Commuters tuned into the local National Public Radio affiliate this morning, likely heard U.S. District Court Judge Marvin Shoob  recall to his daughter, Fulton Superior Judge Wendy Shoob, a haunting incident from his service in Europe during World War II. The pair shared their dialogue through WABE’s StoryCorps Atlanta project.

Be warned: it’s a violent and grim story, but as the elder Judge Shoob recounts, the experience was pivotal, informing how he would spend the rest of his life.

It’s a story that the elder Judge Shoob has told before, but to hear it in his own voice adds impact to its gravity. The story begins with Shoob’s capture of six German soldiers and ends with an act of brutality so senseless that he believed his best alternative was to spend a snowy night beneath the soldiers’ corpses.

The Daily Report is now in the book publishing business with three books, written exclusively for Georgia lawyers, scheduled for release before the end of the year:

Library of Georgia Personal Injury Forms
by Fried Rogers Goldberg LLC, edited by Michael L. Goldberg, is at the printer and will be available later this month.

Library of Georgia Family Law Forms
by Kessler & Solomiany LLC, edited by Randall M. Kessler, will be available in August.

Georgia Legal Malpractice Law
by J. Randolph Evans and Shari L. Klevens will be available in November.

But that’s not all. We’re in talks with prospective authors of books for Georgia lawyers, and, toward that, have created a soup-to-nuts website that includes information about our books (with tables of contents and sample content), authors, links to order, links to pitch your book, author and practice-specific events and even a blog,  through which readers can interact with authors and other professionals.

A roundup of legal news from around Georgia

Litigation committee formed—In light of recent challenges to the purchase of Palmyra Medical Center, the Hospital Authority of Albany-Dougherty County has formed a litigation committee. (Albany Herald)

Attorney General lectures on ethics—Georgia A.G. Sam Olens was keynote speaker at the Brunswick-Glynn County Bar Association’s third annual Law Week Lecture at College of Coastal Georgia. “When sticking to legal issues rather than moral issues, I suggest to you, our country will be much more secure,” he said. (The Brunswick News)

Georgia Legal Services Program reports:

Victims of the recent tornadoes that devastated several Georgia counties may call GLSP for free legal assistance. Low-income individuals and families affected by the tornado should be eligible for special federal and state disaster benefits if they live or work in counties declared disaster areas. Those counties inlude: Bartow, Catoosa, Cherokee, Coweta, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Greene, Habersham, Harris, Heard, Lamar, Lumpkin, Meriwether, Monroe, Morgan, Newton, Pickens, Polk, Rabun, Spalding, Troup, Upson, Walker and White.

Special benefits may include unemployment benefits for those whose jobs or businesses were shut down by the disaster. Special food stamp benefits and other assistance may also be available. GLSP may be able to help low-income individuals who are having trouble in the short term getting the help they need with public benefits, landlord-tenant or other housing issues or unemployment benefits. In the longer term, GLSP can help with other legal problems, such as home repair scams, mortgages or other consumer issues, long-term housing and school issues. Individuals in need of legal assistance may contact GLSP’s Piedmont office at (404) 894-7707, (800)-822-5391 or at www.legalaid-ga.org

Ga. county keeps Rebel flag flying— About 60 people showed up Tuesday evening at the Dodge County Courthouse in an attempt to convince county commissioners to reconsider a vote last month that allows the Confederate flag fly in front of the courthouse year-round. (Augusta Chronicle)

Opening day in court—The functional yet elegant interior of Richmond County’s new courthouse brings to mind a modern high school. (Augusta Chronicle)

NRA Drops King & Spalding as Clement Fallout Continues—The Legal Times reports on its blog that the National Rifle Association has dropped King & Spalding as an outside counsel in the wake of the firm’s decision last month to withdraw from representing House Republicans in support of the Defense of Marriage Act. The NRA’s action follows a similar decision last week by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to end the commonwealth’s relationship with the firm.

In a letter dated May 2 to King & Spalding chairman Robert Hays, NRA general counsel David Lehman said the firm’s decision was “indefensible” but emphasized that the NRA’s action in dropping King & Spalding is “not motivated by any position on the statute itself.” The NRA is a “single issue organization” focused on the Second Amendment, Lehman wrote. But he said that in retaining outside counsel, “we expect them to zealously advocate for our interests and not abandon the representation due to pressure from those who may disagree with us.” (BLT: The Blog of Legal Times) 

Barton: A judge for the people— Here are two helpful hints for young, inexperienced lawyers in Savannah. (1) The judge’s jokes are always funny. (2) If the judge is Larry Dillon, they usually are. Dillon, who’s 76, is quietly approaching his 23rd year on the bench in Savannah Recorder’s Court. That’s makes him one of the longest tenured judges in the courthouse. In fact, he has already run a lap around his predecessor, the late Judge Lionel Drew Jr., who served 16 years before stepping down. (Savannah Morning News)

Pub dispute defendant fails to appear in court—Everything, apparently, to the owner of the downtown Augusta Irish pub Tipsey McStumbles.

In a federal lawsuit filed last month, Michael Anglin accuses a former employee, Christopher Griffin, of opening a competing bar in Aiken using the same name and logo. A judge denied Anglin’s first request for a temporary injunction until Griffin had a chance to respond in a hearing Monday. (The Augusta Chronicle)

Glynn County says lawsuit invalid—Glynn County officials are refuting allegations that they illegally arrested community activist Catherine Browning three years ago or that they hindered her freedom of speech.  In an answer to Browning’s federal lawsuit that was filed in spring 2010, lawyers for the county said claims made against the officials are invalid because the complaint was filed after the statute of limitations had run out. (The Brunswick News)