From the ATL Insider Survey: Overlooked Firms and Schools

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Light years away and in the distant future, perhaps some alien grad student in Defunct Planet Studies will stumble onto the ATL archives. He’ll conclude, not unreasonably, that the legal industry was a sort of oligopoly. That there were only a handful of firms: Skadden, Cravath, Latham, Quinn Emanuel, Tannebaum Weiss, and those few others that get such a disproportionate amount of our attention. And of course, there were only 14 real law schools.

This singular obsession with

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Survey: New Orleans Attracting More Tourists, Spending

October 12, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

A new survey finds New Orleans hosted 4.9 million visitors in the first half of 2012, a 2 percent increase over the same period in 2011, with spending increasing 11 percent to $3.45 billion

The Advocate reports the survey was conducted by the University of New Orleans Hospitality Research Center.

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Survey: Oklahoma Businesses Confident About Future

April 6, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

Most Oklahoma business executives are confident their businesses will grow and about a third plan to hire workers this year, according to the findings of an online survey of company owners and officials released on April 4.

But more than half are less than positive about government services and do not believe future state legislation will have a positive impact on their businesses, according to the survey.

The survey was launched in December by Gov. Mary Fallin and Department of Commerce officials to determine what business leaders want to help their businesses grow. Fallin has made economic development and job creation her administration’s top priority.

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