MMM Partner Mac Hunter to Enter Gate City Bar Association Hall of Fame

Atlanta - Morris, Manning & Martin is pleased to announce that Partner James “Mac” Hunter will be inducted into the Gate City Bar Association's Hall of Fame during its annual gala event on November 6. Past honorees include civil rights legend Donald Hollowell, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, Georgia governor Roy Barnes, and state Supreme Court Justices Robert Benham and Leah Ward Sears.

Harrison Square is showcased prematurely as model downtown development

Fort Wayne is always sending delegations to other cities in search of good ideas to steal. So, if only to avoid an inferiority complex, you'd think we would rejoice at news that leaders from Savannah, Ga., recently visited Parkview Field to experience what a well-designed and successful minor-league baseball stadium can do for a downtown.

Resort Maps and TripAdvisor become travel companions

Resort Maps, creator of over 100 hand-drawn maps across the United States, United Kingdom, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico, recently entered into an agreement with TripAdvisor®, the world's largest travel site.

GM comes to town to sway commission

Since the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners gave five thumbs down to the CEO Burrell Ellis’s plan to issue up to $36.3 million in stimulus bonds to help redevelop the old General Motors site in Doraville on August 24, they have to decide if they want to use the federally subsidized bonds for other projects or entertain a request from GM to reconsider their 5-2 vote to reject a development ...

Another ominous quarter for Coastal Empire's community banks

In wake of First National Bank's shutdown, regulators keep close watch on Coastal Empire The ongoing financial crisis claimed its first Savannah-area community bank victim in late June. A look at the books of the surviving banks at the end of the second quarter - which ended five days after federal regulators closed First National Bank - shows the rest continue to struggle.