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February 22, 2007 | Daily Report Online

KILPATRICK Stockton partners W. Stanley Blackburn and Bruce D. Wanamaker were lead outside counsel to Equifax Inc. on its $1.4 billion acquisition of a St. Louis company that provides payroll and human-resources software and services.In the agreement announced last week, Equifax will acquire Talx Corp. for $1.4 billion in cash, stock and assumed debt.

By Andy Peters

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July 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

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August 25, 2008 | Daily Report Online

With the newspaper industry circling the drain and Cox Enterprises Inc. having placed "For Sale" signs on most of its 43 newspapers, might the Atlanta Journal-Constitution soon be owned by someone other than the Cox familyAn additional factor is the generational change under way in the Cox family that controls the AJC.

By Andy Peters

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April 19, 2010 | Daily Report Online

A Senate committee on Thursday may unwittingly have opened the door to a legal challenge to overturn Georgia's death penalty law.The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to remove the proportionality review requirement from death penalty cases. In the reviews, the state Supreme Court assesses whether a death penalty sentence is proportionate to the severity of the crime.

By Andy Peters

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January 04, 2006 | Daily Report Online

Andy [email protected]:An important point was omitted from a Jan. 4 story about Georgia's special assistant attorneys general that listed the 10 individual SAAGs who were paid the most money from the state in the last fiscal year.A Law Department spokesman said that while one SAAG was paid for each case, the work was often done by the SAAG and other attorneys working with him.

By Andy Peters

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March 19, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Since Sen. Mitch Seabaugh unveiled a plan to trim the number of superior court judges statewide to save money, judges, sheriffs and some of Seabaugh's fellow Republicans have protested that it's a bad idea.Seabaugh, a Coweta County Republican, said he's talked by phone or met in person with at least a dozen judges to discuss his idea.

By Andy Peters

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August 18, 2006 | Daily Report Online

THERE ARE myriad ways a law firm can deploy attorneys to assist clients on international transactions. Thomas J. Harrold Jr. of Miller Martin, which has attorneys only in Atlanta and Tennessee, thinks his firm's way is best.Atlanta-based Harrold got to know Niels Kornerup, a partner at a major law firm in Denmark, through executive meetings of the World Law Group, a coalition of 48 firms from around the globe.

By Andy Peters

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January 08, 2007 | Daily Report Online

THE QUESTIONS of how judges are elected and the size of the state's high court may be the dominant legal topics in this year's session of the Georgia General Assembly. But numerous other issues of interest to lawyers will also arise, including an attempt to roll back part of the landmark 2005 law that favored defendants in some tort cases.

By Andy Peters

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December 08, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

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August 10, 2006 | Daily Report Online

A MORRIS, MANNING MARTIN attorney advised one of the developers working with The Donald on his first Atlanta project.Morris Manning partner Frank B. Bazzel worked with Wood Partners LLC on its joint venture with The Trump Organization, the real-estate development arm of Donald Trump's sprawling business empire.Wood Partners, based in Marietta, acquired a 2.

By Andy Peters

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