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April 19, 2007 | Daily Report Online

ALSTON BIRD partner Randolph A. Moore III and Troutman Sanders partner Thomas O. Powell were attorneys on opposite sides on a recent bank merger.Moore advised Security Bank Corp. of Macon on its $56.6 million all-stock acquisition of First Commerce Community Bankshares Inc. Powell advised First Commerce, which operates First Commerce Community Bank of Douglasville.

By Andy Peters

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April 27, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Lawyers who have pushed for decades to make Georgia's rules of evidence track those in the federal court system will likely have to try again next year.A bill that would have achieved that goal, which is a top priority of the State Bar of Georgia, barely passed a key Senate panel last week. But the measure was not scheduled for a vote in the full Senate for the final week of the legislative session that begins today, virtually killing it.

By Andy Peters

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June 06, 2007 | Daily Report Online

ALONG WITH HOURLY RATES and hours billed, lawyers may soon have to add another column to their clients' receipts-one to show the state sales tax.House Speaker Glenn Richardson, R- Hiram, and his allies plan to push in next year's legislative session changes that would levy sales taxes, for the first time in Georgia, on professional-service providers-from barbers and landscapers to accountants and lawyers.

By Andy Peters

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May 05, 2010 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

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September 01, 2005 | Daily Report Online

Andy [email protected]. Sonny Perdue has tapped three young lawyers to serve as his closest in-house counsel, filling gaps caused in part when the governor in June named his executive counsel, Harold D. Melton, to be a justice on the state Supreme Court.Perdue on Monday promoted deputy executive counsel Rebecca N. Sullivan of Lilburn to Melton's former post.

By Andy Peters

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March 27, 2008 | Daily Report Online

One of the largest multifamily residential developers in the Southeast, Wood Partners LLC of Atlanta, is now part of the world's largest commercial real estate services company. The deal meant hundreds of hours of work for Morris, Manning Martin partner Frank B. Bazzel and more than 30 other attorneys at the firm.

By Andy Peters

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January 31, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

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May 25, 2006 | Daily Report Online

IN THE PAST MONTH, the private-equity fund Arcapita Bank BSC turned a lightning-quick profit on a storied retailer of women's clothes and acquired the global distribution rights to a construction-products company it already owns.King Spalding was Arcapita's legal adviser both times, with partner Raymond E. Baltz Jr.

By Andy Peters

6 minute read

March 11, 2010 | Daily Report Online

A dispute over how to deal with drunk-driving cases, which had blocked Georgia's effort to replace its archaic rules of evidence for more than a year, has been resolved. The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday afternoon approved House Bill 24 by a voice vote. The bill thoroughly rewrites the 150-year-old rules of evidence in the Georgia Code, replacing them with language based on federal law.

By Andy Peters

6 minute read

August 04, 2006 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

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