Attorneys defending a man accused in a death-penalty case of murdering a police officer are seeking the recusal of the Georgia judge overseeing the case, arguing that he can’t be…
A lawyer admitted in Georgia and South Carolina is facing the loss of law practice privileges in both states after pleading guilty to 11 misdemeanors in a case concerning contraband…
Georgia jurors in an Internet defamation case last month ignored a request to award $48,000 each to a lawyer and her husband. Instead, they awarded a total of $900,000 in…
A Georgia judge is reportedly facing an ethics investigation after the district attorney reported a bizarre courtroom incident last week involving a gun and an unusual offer to an alleged…
Jury selection began yesterday in the Georgia trial of a former general counsel and CEO in the U.S. headquarters of Glock Inc. He is facing theft and racketeering charges after…
Two Georgia judges who pleaded guilty in a criminal misconduct case have benefited from a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting the reach of the honest services law.
Counsel for some of the defendants in complex nationwide litigation concerning claimed defects in ASR hip implants marketed by a unit of Johnson & Johnson are asking a Georgia judge…
The Georgia Supreme Court today struck down a state law that restricted advertising assisted suicides, on the basis that the regulation violates free speech rights.
The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a man with HIV is entitled to a hearing on whether he can legally be denied a job as…
When a high-profile murder trial begins next month in Georgia, there’s one sought-after witness who won’t be called—a matrimonial lawyer representing the defendant’s estranged wife.
Sheriff’s deputies in DeKalb County, Ga., arrested seven people on Thursday after gang members and relatives of a murder victim brawled outside the courtroom.
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