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August 28, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Slammed by high fuel prices, airlines are tapping the capital markets to boost liquidity. Delta Air Lines was the latest, tapping its entire $1 billion revolving credit facility on Monday. US Airways Group Inc. got in on the act earlier this month, issuing more than 21 million shares of its common stock, raising about $179 million.

By Andy Peters

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April 23, 2010 | Daily Report Online

By Greg Land and Andy Peters

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September 14, 2010 | Legaltech News

Uniform, statewide e-filing rules for court documents under consideration in Georgia allow for unprecedented sealing of court records by litigants, according to a media lawyer. The draft rules may also give too much authority to private vendors to limit competition and raise prices.

By Andy Peters

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August 17, 2007 | Daily Report Online

THREE KING SPALDING partners recently got an up-close look at how private equity titan Blackstone Group likes to conduct business-super-fast.D. Clayton Howell, Joshua M. Kamin and Mason W. Stephenson were counsel to GE Real Estate on its acquisition of two office-property portfolios from Blackstone, the New York private equity fund that recently held an IPO.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

July 17, 2006 | Daily Report Online

JUDGES' INCREASING LACK of patience with challenges to arbitration rulings appears to have filtered down to the state court level in Georgia.Fulton Superior Court Judge Ural D.L. Glanville last week ordered a plaintiff in a securities-law case to pay the defendants' attorney's fees because the plaintiff filed a frivolous motion to dismiss an arbitration ruling.

By Andy Peters

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February 06, 2006 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

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February 16, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SUPREME COURT Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears and House Speaker Glenn Richardson have agreed that more study is needed on whether graduates of unaccredited law schools should be able to take Georgia's bar exam.But whether Sears and Richardson's accord stops the movement of a bill that would open the bar exam to these graduates remains to be seen.

By Andy Peters

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November 23, 2010 | Daily Report Online

A divided Georgia Supreme Court has sent the case of a Malaysian woman convicted of cruelty to children back to the lower court, ruling that the trial judge should have explained his refusal to grant a new trial when the woman asserted that she failed to understand English well enough to participate in her trial. The majority decision, written by Chief Justice Carol W.

By Greg Land and Andy Peters

9 minute read

May 12, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Although a sports agent's work can touch on everything from contracts to criminal procedure, the handful of Atlanta lawyers in the business say it's difficult for practicing attorneys to break into the cutthroat field. The recent experiences of three Atlanta attorneys who have attempted to generate new practices as sports agents show how tricky the business can be.

By Andy Peters

10 minute read

August 30, 2007 | Daily Report Online

CITING WEAK CREDIT and housing markets, Home Depot Inc. this week chopped almost $2 billion off the asking price of its wholesale building supplies unit. That could cause headaches for future MA transactions, even mid-market deals in the Southeast, one Atlanta deal lawyer said.On Tuesday, Home Depot said it agreed to sell its HD Supply unit to three private equity firms for $8.

By Andy Peters

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