Bell South News

More than 5,000 current and former AT&T workers have filed two $1 billion class-action lawsuits accusing the telecommunications company of withholding overtime pay from its so-called first-level managers in an attempt to defray labor costs.

Graphic Packaging Holding Co. added Lynn A. Wentworth, a veteran of two prominent Atlanta C-suites, to its board of directors.

AT&T Advertising Solutions said Thursday it plans to shut down its Stevens Graphics printing plant in Birmingham, eliminating 208 jobs in an operation that produced phone books.

Oct. 12, 2005: AT&T's $78.5 billion layout of BellSouth Corp. won Justice Department approval.

First Data Corp. named Delta and BellSouth veteran Raymond E. Winborne controller.

Waiting more than a year to inform a client about the outcome of her case was a costly mistake for a Florida law firm.

Shannon will be based in Atlanta, Ga. a oeFirst Dataa s global leadership position in the payments industry enables us to attract the best talent in the business,a said Capellas.

Edward E. Whitacre Jr. has a thing for airplane hangars. The chief executive of AT&T has cut numerous acquisitions in these cavernous confines, including his $61 billion purchase of Ameritech.