Peters

August 05, 2010 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

8 minute read

July 22, 2010 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

6 minute read

December 19, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Mark Peters and Mohana Terry of Edwards Wildman Palmer review key aspects of New York's Financial Services Law, enacted earlier this year, and the Department of Financial Services it created by merging the Insurance and Banking Departments, as they apply to the insurance industry in particular.

By Mark Peters and Mohana Terry

11 minute read

November 27, 2006 | Daily Report Online

IF IT'S SUCCESSFUL in its hostile takeover bid of Delta Airlines, US Airways Group Inc. will face the thorny issue of how to deal with employee unions.The thorniest issue, according to employment attorneys, would be how to combine the seniority lists of the Delta and US Airways pilots unions. "Merging pilot seniority lists is always nasty," said Fisher Phillips partner E.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

September 25, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Correction appended: see below for a correction to this story.LESS THAN TWO YEARS after it opened, the Atlanta office of Motley Rice is poised for a major shake-up.The South Carolina-based firm has asked three of its four Atlanta lawyers to move to its home base in Mt. Pleasant, a suburb of Charleston."Regrettably, the practice did not materialize as we had hoped," wrote Ann K.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

February 26, 2007 | Daily Report Online

THE TIME WARNER-America Online merger is widely viewed as one of the worst mergers in U.S. corporate history, at least for individual investors.It didn't hurt Liberty Media Corp. The Colorado-based media conglomerate acquired about 170 million shares of Time Warner in 1995, through multiple transactions, for about $300 million, according to company reports and a Wall Street analyst's estimate.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

June 19, 2008 | National Law Journal

A former Georgia magistrate judge pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges of conspiracy to harbor an alien and making false statements in what a federal prosecutor described as a case of "modern-day slavery." D. William Garrett Jr. was arraigned Wednesday with his son, Russell Garrett, and his daughter-in-law, Malika Garrett. Their criminal defense lawyer said the government's case blew out of proportion a dispute between Russell and Malika Garrett and the Indian nanny for their children.

By Andy Peters

3 minute read

January 13, 2006 | Daily Report Online

Andy [email protected] Republican lawmakers fear that last year's landmark tort law went too far in making it harder for plaintiffs to win malpractice suits against emergency-room doctors.Senate Bill 232, sponsored by six Republicans, would repeal the section of last year's bill that said malpractice plaintiffs must prove with clear and convincing evidence that emergency-room doctors acted with "gross negligence.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

January 10, 2007 | Daily Report Online

FOR YEARS, Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker has bemoaned the low pay of lawyers on his staff. No attorney on Baker's staff, including the AG himself and a number of lawyers with more than more than 20 years of experience, makes a yearly salary of more than $130,000.It's a different story for lawyers who perform freelance work for the attorney general's office.

By Andy Peters

9 minute read

January 17, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

4 minute read