Andy Peters
June 17, 2008 | Daily Report Online
Former AG candidate makes a bid for Ga. appellate court seatA former Republican candidate for attorney general announced he will run for the Georgia Court of Appeals.Perry J. McGuire, an attorney at Taylor, Busch, Slipakoff Duma, is seeking the seat being vacated by Judge John H. Ruffin Jr. who is not seeking re-election. McGuire joins a field of four candidates: Atlanta lawyer Bruce M.
By Andy Peters
1 minute read
November 30, 2010 | Daily Report Online
Johnson beats Rothenberg for DeKalb Court seatFormer prosecutor Courtney L. Johnson won a seat on the DeKalb County Superior Court bench in Tuesday's run-off election after a campaign that featured some embarrassing disclosures for the losing candidate.Johnson, a former senior assistant district attorney in DeKalb County, got 16,134 votes, or 61.4 percent, while challenger Michael L.
By Andy Peters
2 minute read
September 14, 2007 | Daily Report Online
Emory expands transactional law centerMANY STUDENTS start law school with the goal of becoming litigators, and U.S. law schools have done a good job of preparing students for that area, Arnall Golden Gregory partner Sherman A. Cohen said.But for law school grads who enter the workforce in transactional law, it's a different story. "We have to do the training of these graduates ourselves," said Cohen, chairman of Arnall Golden's corporate practice group.
By Andy Peters
3 minute read
June 27, 2008 | Daily Report Online
Banking panel OKs Atlantan for SECThe Senate Banking Committee has approved the nomination of McKenna Long Aldridge partner Luis A. Aguilar to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Aguilar's nomination now must be confirmed by the full Senate. Aguilar, of Atlanta, was one of two Democrats named to the five-member SEC, along with Financial Industry Regulatory Authority senior executive vice president Elisse Walter.
By Andy Peters
1 minute read
January 29, 2008 | Daily Report Online
Appeals: Financial situation is 'dire'A triple-whammy of higher rental fees, the addition of more space and the Legislature's removal of funds from its budget has the Georgia Court of Appeals scrambling for money.On Friday, Chief Judge Anne Elizabeth Barnes asked a joint state House-Senate committee to approve an infusion of about $400,000 to address a budget shortfall.
By Andy Peters
3 minute read
October 03, 2006 | Daily Report Online
Anti-Hunstein group raises $62K in SeptemberTHE SAFETY PROSPERITY COALITION, a group that has said it will run ads encouraging voters to reject the re-election bid of Georgia Supreme Court Presiding Justice Carol W. Hunstein, raised $62,000 in September, boosting the group's overall fundraising total to $318,500, according to a state document.Most of the money, $50,000, came from the Medical Association of Georgia's political action committee.
By Andy Peters
2 minute read
August 13, 2009 | Daily Report Online
Perdue chooses Nahmias for Georgia Supreme CourtGov. Sonny Perdue has chosen U.S. Attorney David E. Nahmias to become the newest justice at the Supreme Court of Georgia. Perdue made the announcement today to fill the open slot on the high court created by the retirement of former Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears. On June 30, the Judicial Nominating Commission gave Perdue its short list of nine candidates: Atlanta solo practitioner James P.
By Andy Peters
2 minute read
March 13, 2009 | Daily Report Online
Senate rejects bill that would ease coal plant permitsA proposal to require state administrative law judges to defer to the Department of Natural Resources on permit appeals was defeated in the Senate on Thursday by one vote. Environmental groups had worried the measure could grease the skids for the approval of new coal-fired power plants.The Senate voted in favor of Senate Bill 229 by a tally of 26-25.
By Andy Peters
2 minute read
April 21, 2006 | Daily Report Online
K&S advises Sprint on $1.3 billion dealKing Spalding is advising Sprint Nextel Corp. of Reston, Va., on a proposed $1.3 billion acquisition of UbiquiTel Inc., a Sprint wireless affiliate in the Midwest and western U.S. The deal was announced Thursday afternoon.King Spalding is a longtime adviser to Sprint, both before and after Sprint Corp.'s merger last year with Nextel Communications.
By Andy Peters
1 minute read
October 28, 2008 | Daily Report Online
State to Democrats: Drop voter ID challenge ... or elseThe Democratic Party of Georgia was asked Monday to drop its challenge of the state's voter ID law, three days after the state Supreme Court denied the Democrats' appeal of a lower court ruling.The Democrats were told of the state's position in a letter from Troutman Sanders partner Mark H. Cohen, working as a special assistant attorney general for Attorney General Thurbert E.
By Andy Peters
2 minute read
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