Andy Peters

September 16, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Savannah lawyer Don Smart acknowledges that, as a Libertarian, it's only "possible, not probable" that he will be the next attorney general of Georgia. But he maintains his candidacy is worthwhile.Smart said he hopes to add to the campaign conversation his emphasis on reviewing the Law Department's costs and cutting wasteful spending.

By Andy Peters

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August 13, 2010 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

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January 04, 2006 | Daily Report Online

Andy [email protected]:An important point was omitted from a Jan. 4 story about Georgia's special assistant attorneys general that listed the 10 individual SAAGs who were paid the most money from the state in the last fiscal year.A Law Department spokesman said that while one SAAG was paid for each case, the work was often done by the SAAG and other attorneys working with him.

By Andy Peters

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March 07, 2006 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters, Staff Reporter Atlanta law firms may have slowed the flow of mergers-and-acquisitions deals to New York over the past decade, but hometown corporate icon BellSouth Corp. chose a Gotham firm as its lead adviser for the phone company's largest-ever deal.Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver Jacobson represents BellSouth on the company's pending $67 billion acquisition by ATT Inc.

By Andy Peters

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November 18, 2008 | Daily Report Online

There are garden-variety real estate transactions and then there are deals like the development of the Ritz-Carlton Residences tower in Buckhead.Under construction with a target completion date of mid-2009, the 34-story tower will combine luxury condos, penthouses, office space and highly desirable retail space in a sleek glass design.

By Andy Peters

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January 18, 2007 | Daily Report Online

KING SPALDING has extended its relationship with Atlanta energy producer and marketer Mirant Corp., advising the company on an agreement to sell some of its power plants.Partners John J. Kelley III, C. William Baxley, Lisa R. Blanco and William B. Shearer III were the lead counsel to Mirant on the company's agreement to sell six U.

By Andy Peters

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January 21, 2010 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

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July 09, 2007 | Daily Report Online

STATE-BACKED FINANCIAL help may be on the way for the beleaguered Grady Health System-at least for the emergency room that serves Atlanta's most-serious trauma patients.What remains unclear is whether the political will is present to help Grady pay for care of the thousands of indigent patients it serves each year, or to alter its organizational structure in a way that could reduce the level of oversight by Fulton and DeKalb counties.

By Andy Peters

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September 24, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Given the chaos that preceded it, one would expect that the most important hearing in the largest bankruptcy case in U.S. history would be a doozy.It was, said Darryl S. Laddin of Arnall Golden Gregory in Atlanta. He was one of hundreds of lawyers who last Friday crammed into courtrooms, many of them limited to standing-room-only space, to deal with Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

By Andy Peters

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June 03, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Less than three hours after Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears said the Georgia judiciary wants to cooperate with Gov. Sonny Perdue over his cutting 25 percent of its June budget, the state's trial judges started exploring ways to sue him.On Tuesday, the executive committee of the Council of Superior Court Judges voted unanimously to ask Sears to schedule an emergency meeting of the state Judicial Council to consider suing the governor.

By Alyson M. Palmer and Andy Peters

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