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October 10, 2008 | Daily Report Online

While many segments of the U.S. economy are struggling mightily and individuals are worried about their investments in the stock market, the employees of a local physician staffing company are counting their money.MDA Holdings Inc. of Norcross, which operates as Medical Doctor Associates, last month agreed to sell itself to Cross Country Healthcare Inc.

By Andy Peters

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February 23, 2007 | Daily Report Online

HUNTON WILLIAMS will raise pay for Atlanta first-year associates to $145,000 per year from $115,000, said Kurtis A. Powell, managing partner of the firm's Atlanta office.Hunton's $30,000 raise is twice as large as the $15,000 raises that many other Atlanta law firms have given to first-year associates in recent days.

By Andy Peters

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November 29, 2010 | Daily Report Online

If institutional knowledge were a currency, Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker could be the richest lawyer in town. The five division heads in the state Law Department, plus three attorneys who directly advise the AG, boast a combined 234 years of experience in the AG's office.But a challenge for incoming attorney general Samuel S.

By Andy Peters

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January 22, 2009 | Daily Report Online

It looked like another financing deal was about to fall through for Burr Forman partner Patrick J. Clarke.He was planning on representing JPMorgan Chase Co. on providing a $12 million construction loan for the new Sandy Springs headquarters of freight-forwarding company JAS WorldWide Management LLC. But, at the last minute, because of the global credit crunch and other factors, JPMorgan dropped out, leaving the project in the lurch.

By Andy Peters

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August 24, 2007 | National Law Journal

McKenna Long & Aldridge lawyers played a key role in drafting a report that indicated some players in the Refco scandal could be vulnerable to civil litigation, including Refco's law firm, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. McKenna partner Joshua R. Hochberg, Refco's court-appointed bankruptcy examiner, was assisted by partner Charles E. Campbell and other McKenna attorneys in preparing his court report, which concluded that Refco's legal advisers and auditors could face liability from Refco creditor suits.

By Andy Peters

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March 02, 2007 | Daily Report Online

See map below this story.THE STATE SUPREME COURT would grow from seven to at least 13 justices, elected from each of Georgia's congressional districts, under a plan introduced this week by a group of influential Republican state senators.The plan would similarly expand the 12-member Court of Appeals, with jurists from both courts required to live in the congressional districts from which they are elected.

By Andy Peters

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August 30, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Raising again the possibility of a battle between branches of state government, a spokesman for Gov. Sonny Perdue said that Georgia's judiciary has rejected the governor's request that it spend less than the General Assembly appropriated.Perdue has ordered the executive branch to spend 4 percent less than its budgeted funds from August through January, when Perdue's term in office ends.

By Andy Peters

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December 29, 2008 | Daily Report Online

With the global capital markets nearly in a coma, companies are looking at their options for boosting liquidity. For the airline industry, it appears, the current favored option for raising money has been so-called continuous offering programs.The latest airline to pull off such a deal is Delta Air Lines Inc., taking legal advice from Kilpatrick Stockton partner W.

By Andy Peters

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August 16, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Christiana C. Jacxsens could have done a lot of things besides being a litigator. For one thing, she knows her way around a science laboratory. After receiving dual undergraduate degrees in German literature and chemistry from Washington and Lee University, the Alexandria, Va., native spent a year in her mother's home country of Germany researching the connection between genetics and certain skin allergies.

By Andy Peters

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August 31, 2005 | Daily Report Online

Andy [email protected] Curry and Charles McElveen traveled hundreds of miles to Atlanta to receive forgiveness that was 60 years late.Declaring that the state of Georgia made "a grievous error," the State Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday granted a pardon to Lena Baker, who in 1945 became the only woman to die in Georgia's electric chair.

By Andy Peters

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