Stephen McDaniel won’t be able to get out of jail prior to his trial in the slaying of his law school classmate Lauren Giddings unless his bail is substantially, his…
A Georgia judge has sentenced an Augusta personal injury lawyer to 100 hours of community service at a sewage treatment plant for his conduct with an 18-year-old babysitter.
A Georgia jury is holding a physician and his medical group accountable for the death of a 31-year-old man who suffered heart failure while engaging in a threesome with his…
A Georgia judge on Wednesday dismissed all charges against a Savannah man accused of raping and killing his girlfriend’s 12-year-old daughter in 2003 because of a series of delays that…
A prosecutor-turned-criminal defense lawyer in Atlanta has been charged with intent to distribute methamphetamine and ecstasy after his arrest in a drug sting.
A federal judge in Georgia has granted summary judgment to a school district accused of deliberate indifference to the plight of a bullied student who committed suicide.
A longtime Georgia practitioner has been disbarred for taking clients’ money without performing agreed work and closing his law office without notifying them.
One of Georgia’s longest-serving state superior court judges is stepping down, after almost 32 years on the bench, after a judicial ethics investigation.
However, Chief Coweta Judicial Circuit Judge William…
A Georgia middle school student has filed a suit against two classmates that claims they created a fake Facebook page in her name with defamatory information.
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