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The Big Reveal: Why Did Southern Company Viciously Go After Newsome, Forbes, and the CDLU?
While documents, expenditures, and insiders close to Southern Company’s executive leadership have verified and confirmed that the criminal enterprise engaged in surveillance, targeted, harassed, and spearheaded a campaign of fear and intimidation against the Newsome family, the Forbes family, and the CDLU, the key question brought up by federal investigators, regulators, and others is: Why? We have learned that Mark A. Crosswhite, the disgraced ex-CEO and Chairman of Alabama Power, was allegedly furious in January of 2020 when we published jaw-dropping photos of him slamming back cocktails with then-U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town. Town, being investigated by the Office of…
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Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, RICO, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Baker Donelson, AmFam Sued for $13.1 Billion Over Illegal Surveillance; Is Southern Company Next?
A headline story in Law.com rocked the legal community in 2021. A respected law firm came under fire for conducting illegal surveillance and video recording of a woman and her family. Law.com reported: The long-lived, knotty personal injury case that … ultimately settled for $11 million has spun off yet more litigation, with a new complaint accusing Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, American Family Insurance and a local private investigation company of illegally surveilling and video-recording the plaintiff and her family. Fittingly, the new complaint seeks big money: more than $13.1 billion and change in punitive damages. Plus attorney fees. The…
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Piglets of Pork: Balch & Bingham Sucks on Million-Dollar Government Nipple for Apparent Survival
When The Washington Post wrote an indepth article on the Balch & Bingham’s rental assistance debacle in Mississippi in September of 2021, we accurately called the embattled firm “government-made millionaires” that survived on contractual cronyism. Balch & Bingham reaped millions while renters, many of whom were People of Color, received nothing, according to The Washinghon Post. Now the Piglets of Pork look like they continue to survive on government contracts. 1819 reports: Alabama’s Contract Review Committee held a meeting Thursday during which it approved a $600,000 increase in a legal contract for Balch & Bingham law firm to represent the Alabama…
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Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, RICO, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Flopped! Balch & Bingham’s Humiliating Debacle in Texas
Two years ago, after opening a new office in Austin, Balch predicted they would grow to 25 to 30 attorneys in the Lone Star State. Balch crowed that they had seven lawyers in Houston in a news report published that June of 2021. Now, today, Balch has been decimated and only three lawyers remain in Houston, with one of them actually based in Birmingham. From seven to three. Balch’s total number of attorneys in the Lone Star State is in the single digits, nowhere near 25 or 30. What a humiliating debacle! Cherry-picking the best of the best, Balch’s competitors…
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Elderly Exploitation Scandal, North Birmingham Bribery Case, RICO, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Crumbling! Balch Forced to Pull Former Partner Out of Retirement; Top D.C. Lobbyist Leaves Balch
Balch’s alleged womb to tomb misconduct appears to have devastated the once prestigious, silk-stocking law firm. None of the hottest stars of the legal profession appear to want to be associated with the embattled law firm Balch & Bingham. Two former Balch attorneys are sitting in federal prison. One is serving 5 years for money laundering and bribery and the other is serving more than 8 years for possession of kiddie porn. Balch was forced to pull former partner Clark Watson out of retirement after Balch’s banking and financial services practice suffered several crippling blows, culminating with the recent exit…
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Astounding! Legacy Partner Anulewicz Dumps Balch & Bingham for Bradley
After nearly two decades as a top partner at Balch’s Atlanta office, Christopher S. Anulewicz has dumped the embattled law firm. He has joined the law firm Bradley. Two years ago, we asked, “Will the Anulewicz Family Dump Balch & Bingham?” Anulewicz’s wife is Georgia State Representative Teri Anulewicz (D). We applaud Chris and Teri for making the intelligent decision. In November of 2017, we wrote about two honorable and respected Balch & Bingham partners who were fighting corruption in Georgia, Anulewicz and Mike Bowers, both based in Atlanta. We asked at the time, “Will the Good Guys Bail on Balch?” A…
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Bradley Buyout of Balch? Balch’s Banking Practice Implodes
The hot ? rumor on the street is that the ever growing Bradley law firm may buyout embattled law firm Balch & Bingham. Bradley swallowed up the majority of Balch’s Houston team this summer, including the Managing Partner of the Houston office, and picked off 17 year-legacy partner W. Brad Neighbors. In a news article today posted on the Birmingham Business Journal, Bradley welcomed Neighbors to the firm to “enhance our robust banking and financial services offerings to our clients.” Robust indeed. The stunning move comes after 31-year Balch legacy partner Jesse S. Vogtle, Randolph H. Lanier, Eric T. Ray,…
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The Vow that Killed Balch & Bingham and Alleged Conspirators
When the illustrious Schuyler Allen Baker, Jr., General Counsel of Balch & Bingham, vowed in 2017 that he would “fight to the death” before resolving the Newsome Conspiracy Case, he was affirming what Claiborne Seier (above, left) allegedly vowed to Burt Newsome in 2012: Newsome would be destroyed for pursuing a criminal case against Seier’s brother Alfred Seier, who pulled a gun on Newsome. In October of 2020, Baker died. Now, late last month, Claiborne Seier died. Balch justified their actions against Newsome by claiming in court documents that Balch had the right to “ruin a rival.” Instead, Balch ruined…
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Ugly Summer! Top Minorities Flee Balch & Bingham; Houston Office Crumbles; Legacy Partner Exits
Embattled law firm Balch & Bingham’s managing partner Stan Blanton has been severely kicked in the gut. Less than eighteen months as a partner, Cyrus Chin, a person of color who was heavily promoted as the face of Balch’s diversity and inclusion efforts, has left Balch. Also fleeing Balch is attorney Rodrigo Martinez Cabello, one of Balch’s few Hispanic attorneys. Also joining Chin and Martinez is Philip A. Dunlap, Balch’s Houston Managing Partner. All three are based in Houston. All three jumped ship to Bradley this summer, an incredible blow as Balch’s Houston Office appears to have crumbled overnight. Bradley…
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“Irreplaceable” Ghost Letter Writer and Spy Man Irving Jones, Jr. Finally Made Partner at Balch & Bingham
Embattled law firm Balch & Bingham finally made one of their most infamous African American attorneys partner. Irving Jones, Jr., who worked with disgraced Balch-made millionaire and now federal prisoner Joel I. Gilbert, was a star witness in the North Birmingham Bribery Trial in 2018. Jones ghost-wrote “dumbed-down” letters to be signed by African American community residents in the AstroTurf campaign to block EPA testing in North Birmingham, according to court testimony. The effort was a success and kids in North Birmingham continue, to this day, to be poisoned by toxic soil and polluted air. According to court proceedings and news…
