A Georgia personal injury attorney initially accused of embezzling nearly $1 million from his law firm’s pension and retirement accounts was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison after…
The parents of a 17-year-old autistic youth who committed suicide last October claim in a lawsuit that his Georgia school district and its principal failed to prevent the bullying that…
Georgia Chief Justice Carol Hunstein used her first State of the Judiciary address to warn of a growing case backlog that is threatening the constitutional rights of civil litigants and…
A divided Georgia Supreme Court has upheld a 2005 tort reform provision that makes it more difficult to win damages for alleged malpractice during emergency room visits.
A $95 trial strategy book co-authored by attorney Don Keenan and a jury consultant apparently was intended to help plaintiffs lawyers maximize their clients’ awards.
A state government office in Georgia opened a civil investigation yesterday after confidential documents reportedly were dropped off at a recycling center that may have come from law firm files.
Updated: After a federal district judge’s opinion blasting a law firm and its corporate client over what he describes as their bad-faith litigation tactics, a federal magistrate judge made a…
Accused of racketeering and theft in connection with his work as outside legal counsel for Glock Inc., a former federal prosecutor and onetime candidate for Georgia attorney general did nothing…
Led by a former name partner, a team of lawyers from the dissolving Marshall & Lueder energy boutique in Atlanta has found a new home at Barnes & Thornburg’s growing…
A former federal prosecutor who has been working as outside counsel for the U.S. headquarters of Glock has been accused with two other defendants of attempting to bilk the Austrian-based…
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