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July 17, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

7 minute read

March 17, 2006 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters, Staff ReporterIn the rough-and-tumble world of cement makers, a North Carolina-based cement company was sold twice in less than two years, and Kilpatrick Stockton was there both times to serve as a legal adviser.Cementos Argos S.A. of Medellin, Colombia, announced March 16 that it reached an agreement to purchase RMCC Group Inc.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

June 05, 2008 | Daily Report Online

An under-performing shopping mall in a decent location-in this case, North DeKalb Mall near Decatur-seems like an easy fix, right Just bring in a popular retailer, and the mall's traffic will rise instantly.But inking a deal with that hot retailer is very complicated, especially at North DeKalb Mall. Just ask Hartman, Simons, Spielman Wood partner Theodore H.

By Andy Peters

9 minute read

February 20, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SINCE LEAVING OFFICE in 2003 and returning to private law practice, former Gov. Roy Barnes has had little trouble drumming up business.Last month Barnes teamed up with former Attorney General Michael J. Bowers to represent two Marietta businessmen suing PricewaterhouseCoopers. While a jury rejected the request by Barnes' clients for $400 million, the accounting giant still had to pay $10 million for negligent misrepresentation.

By Andy Peters

7 minute read

October 13, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Lawyers and state Supreme Court justices spent more than an hour Tuesday wrestling with two questions about the legality of state-sponsored charter schools-one about what the framers of the 1983 state Constitution meant by the phrase "special schools" and the other question about how charter schools are to be funded.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

June 13, 2007 | Daily Report Online

THE ATLANTA FALCONS could fire Michael Vick, who owns a house that has been the subject of a probe into illegal dog-fighting, and face few, if any, negative legal consequences, according to three labor and employment lawyers.Whether the Falcons would cut ties with their star quarterback is unclear. While the dog-fighting investigation has caused bad publicity, Vick has denied wrongdoing and has not been charged with a crime.

By Andy Peters

7 minute read

December 11, 2006 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

4 minute read

July 21, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Claiming it was not served properly with the suit, the city of East Point is appealing a $16 million default judgment awarded to the family of a man who died several days after being bonded out of the city jail with a badly bruised face and head and evidence of brain damage.Johnathan Battle, 24, was arrested in East Point on Jan.

By Greg Land and Andy Peters

7 minute read

February 12, 2009 | Daily Report Online

More than a dozen attorneys from Atlanta, New York and Wilmington, Del., were involved in hammering out a settlement between Home Depot Inc. and HD Supply Inc. over how much the home-improvement retailer would pay to its former subsidiary.HD Supply split its legal work between Rogers Hardin and the New York-based giant firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Flom, according to a document in Delaware Chancery Court.

By Andy Peters

6 minute read

September 28, 2006 | Daily Report Online

INSTEAD OF USING one of Atlanta's giant law firms known for its deal lawyers, a Norcross software company leaned on two small local law firms for advice on its sale to Bank of America Corp.Joyce, Thrasher Kaiser partner H. Grady Thrasher IV and Vaughan Murphy of counsel C. David Vaughan were the legal advisers to HealthLogic Systems Corp.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read