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November 01, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Lawyers from King Spalding and Rogers Hardin are working on Synovus Financial Corp.'s proposed tax-free spin-off of Total System Services Inc.According to King Spalding, firm partners John J. Kelley III and C. William Baxley are lead counsel to Synovus, the banking company that owns 80.8 percent of Total System Services.

By Andy Peters

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April 21, 2009 | Daily Report Online

A Democratic state representative is resigning from the Legislature because the Attorney General's office said it was illegal for her to work as a Fulton County prosecutor while serving as a lawmaker.Rep. Robbin Shipp, D-Atlanta, planned to submit her resignation letter to Gov. Sonny Perdue on Monday, said Yvette Brown, a spokeswoman for Fulton County District Attorney Paul L.

By Andy Peters

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November 12, 2007 | Daily Report Online

WHILE GOV. SONNY Perdue will lead a prayer vigil for rain Tuesday, lawyers for the state will plead Georgia's case for water to mere mortals in Washington on Friday.The state will argue to a federal appeals court that an agreement it reached with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2003 on the management of Lake Lanier was legal.

By Andy Peters

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June 12, 2008 | Daily Report Online

With skyscrapers only a few yards from the sidewalk and lined up on both sides of the street, the stretch of Peachtree Road in Buckhead between Piedmont Road and Lenox Square increasingly resembles a block in midtown Manhattan. Alston Bird real-estate finance partner H. Lee Walker has been involved in that makeover for more than a decade.

By Andy Peters

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March 10, 2006 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters, Staff ReporterThe state House on Thursday approved a bill to clarify a section in last year's landmark tort law that encourages litigation settlements by making parties that rebuff settlement offers risk paying the other side's attorney's fees. It may be the only alteration the Legislature will make this year to the tort law, as time is running out on this year's session.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

December 15, 2005 | Daily Report Online

Andy [email protected] he doesn't support partisan judicial elections, Georgia Supreme Court Justice Harold D. Melton said Wednesday that "judicial activism" has led to some justifiable questioning of judges' integrity."Let me be clear: I am not in favor of partisan judicial elections," Melton said.

By Andy Peters

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August 20, 2010 | Daily Report Online

In an unusual pairing, a DeKalb County State Court judge assisted a U.S. District Court judge in Birmingham, Ala., in mediating settlements in more than 200 suits in which plaintiffs said liquid vitamin supplements made them ill.DeKalb County State Court Judge Alvin T. Wong participated in the mass mediation at the request of U.

By Andy Peters

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August 26, 2005 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

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July 07, 2006 | National Law Journal

Criminal defense attorneys in Atlanta said they weren�t entirely surprised that convicted former Enron CEO Kenneth L. Lay succumbed to a heart attack on Wednesday.

By Andy Peters

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May 26, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Long-simmering hostility between some members of the General Assembly and the State Bar of Georgia has spilled over into a state Senate election campaign.In the Republican primary pitting incumbent Sen. John J. Wiles, R-Kennesaw, against challenger Lindsey Tippins, a former president of the State Bar of Georgia has asked lawyers to help defeat Wiles.

By Andy Peters

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