(Cole) The filing went to the court first thing and by mid morning Gerald had already sent a formal objection to the independent valuation expert request. I had expected that. I read the objection, noted the two arguments he was making, and set it aside to deal with after lunch. Neither argument was going to hold and Gerald probably knew that. He was doing what lawyers did when they were running out of ground, filing objections to slow the process and buy his client time to adjust to a position that was getting worse by the day. I had a lunch arrangement with a man named Solomon Price. We had known each other for eleven years, having gone through the same graduate program before ending up on opposite sides of Atlanta's legal landscape. Solomon ran a civil litigation firm and we met ever

