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October 22, 2009 | Daily Report Online

A Hall County jury this month agreed with a Georgia agricultural lender that the bank made the right decision to reject a bid by a bank shareholder-who is also the chairman of the county's board of commissioners-to purchase a foreclosed egg farm.The jury ruled in favor of AgGeorgia Farm Credit and two bank executives after a seven-day trial before C.

By Andy Peters

6 minute read

April 18, 2006 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters, Staff Reporter 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.Since December, a Welch Spell team led by partners Laurance D. Pless, James A. Tramonte and Robert A. Sauro represented Coloplast A/S in its agreement to purchase two business lines from Mentor Corp.

By Andy Peters

4 minute read

October 19, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Lawyers gave Democrat Ken Hodges $261,578 in the third quarter, compared to $150,766 the bar raised for his Republican rival for attorney general, Sam Olens. Documents filed with the State Ethics Commission show that Hodges' take from attorneys represented about half of the $530,825 that he raised in the period between July 1 and Sept.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

December 06, 2007 | Daily Report Online

It's easy logic to put a sports bar and restaurant just a few steps away from the Georgia Dome and Philips Arena. But the details are a little more complicated, said Alpharetta sole practitioner Eric S. Chofnas, who represented the business venture that recently launched Stats, which boasts 70 high-definition TVs and technology that gives patrons their own supply of beer at their tables.

By Andy Peters

7 minute read

October 28, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Attorneys who draft and litigate employment contracts are telling their clients to get ready to examine their existing agreements with a fine-toothed comb.That's because Georgia voters next week could approve House Resolution 178, a change in the state Constitution that would dramatically strengthen non-compete provisions in employment contracts.

By Andy Peters

6 minute read

September 07, 2006 | Daily Report Online

CLIENTS DISTRUST them. Associates abhor them. Some lawyers, allegedly, abuse them and find their bar licenses stripped as a result. But billable hours remain the foremost currency by which law firms calculate what to charge their clients.But some law firms are trying powerful software programs that could give lawyers alternatives to checking off timesheets.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

December 03, 2010 | Daily Report Online

U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said Thursday that her office will not object to motions for new sentences that any of 16 defendants punished by ex-Judge Jack T. Camp may wish to bring. Yates said witnesses with close connections to the drug case in which Camp last month pleaded guilty said he may have been biased against black defendants or impaired by drug use.

By Janet L. Conley and Andy Peters

7 minute read

January 30, 2009 | Daily Report Online

A decades-long effort to replace Georgia's 19th century evidence code with rules based on federal law has won the blessing of the State Bar of Georgia and-except for a minor disagreement-plaintiffs' lawyers and insurance-defense lawyers.But prosecutors are battling criminal defense lawyers and the creators of the legislation over a ban on most "similar transactions" evidence.

By Andy Peters

8 minute read

November 09, 2006 | Daily Report Online

MARKS WILLIAMS partner Randolph A. Marks had a hand in giving legal advice on the financing arrangement for what will be one of the most expensive condo towers in the city.Marks was the legal adviser to SR Hotel Development on a $177 million financing agreement with Morgan Stanley Mortgage Capital. SR Hotel will team up with Trammell Crow Residential to develop a 26-story St.

By Andy Peters

4 minute read

September 07, 2006 | Daily Report Online

KILPATRICK STOCKTON partner David A. Stockton and Jones Day partners Mark L. Hanson and Lizanne Thomas worked on New York financier Wilbur Ross' most recent move in the textile industry.Ross' buyout shop, WL Ross Co., last month merged two Carolinas textile companies in which he was majority owner-Safety Components International Inc.

By Andy Peters

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