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March 06, 2008 | Daily Report Online

As the folks in Richmond, Va., recently learned: Major League Baseball teams are moving their farm clubs closer to home to cut travel costs and enhance regional marketing efforts.Cities wanting to avoid Richmond's fate-in which its Atlanta Braves minor-league team is moving to Gwinnett County-are coming to see McKenna Long Aldridge partner Steven J.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

May 01, 2013 | New York Law Journal

In almost half of a century since the Stonewall riots, public policy in New York has evolved, making steady progress through the following developments in gay rights: adoption, laws enacted against discrimination, recognition of same-sex civil unions, legalization of same-sex marriage and, most recently, destigmatizing the term "gay" or "homosexual."

By Karen K. Peters

6 minute read

October 27, 2005 | Daily Report Online

Andy [email protected] with the spoils of success, Georgia Republicans are lining up to run for the three of the last remaining statewide offices held by Democrats-lieutenant governor, secretary of state and agriculture commissioner.Absent from that list is attorney general, which wields as much, if not more, power as those other offices.

By Andy Peters

6 minute read

April 18, 2006 | National Law Journal

A team of lawyers from the Atlanta firm Welch Spell had to log tens of thousands of airplane miles to help a Danish company expand into the still-fertile business of selling penile implants.

By Andy Peters/Daily Report

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July 02, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

4 minute read

March 25, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Next to the King Memorial MARTA rail station, construction is taking place on a project that got past not only the downtown tornado but also what a lawyer calls "a perfect storm" of legal and financial challenges.The Pencil Factory Flats Shops survived the tornado by sheer luck; just blocks away, the Fulton Bag Cotton Mill lofts was left partially demolished from the reported 130 mile-per-hour winds.

By Andy Peters

7 minute read

August 24, 2006 | Daily Report Online

MORRIS, MANNING MARTIN partners G. Brian Butler and Thomas S. Gryboski advised Noble Investment Group LLC on its role in buying the Sheraton Colony Square hotel.Noble teamed with AEW Capital Management LP, a Boston real-estate investment house, to buy the property for $48.5 million from Starwood Hotels Resorts Worldwide Inc.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

September 11, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Eva Graham founded Nioxin Research Laboratories Inc. in her garage in 1987. Since then, Graham and others have built the company into the best-known brand name for products that help improve the appearance of thinning hair, said Powell Goldstein partner William B. Shearer Jr.Graham cashed out of her successful venture this month, selling the company to Procter Gamble Co.

By Andy Peters

6 minute read

March 04, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

7 minute read

July 29, 2005 | Daily Report Online

Andy [email protected] debate supposedly settled by the General Assembly two years ago has been reignited by a surprise ruling on state water policy from an unlikely authority: a federal bankruptcy court.At issue is a decision issued last month by Chief Judge Lamar W. Davis Jr. of U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Georgia.

By Andy Peters

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