Having already tripled its attorney roster in Louisville, Ky., since opening an office there two years ago, Fisher & Phillips is looking to hire more attorneys…
An ethics complaint filed against a magistrate judge in Georgia’s Catoosa County claims he pointed a gun at himself in the courthouse, forced his way into another man’s home where…
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has sued a Georgia law firm for malpractice, contending that a partner of the firm, simultaneously representing Neighborhood Community Bank and a developer client while…
Georgia’s Supreme Court disbarred (PDF) an Augusta, Ga., attorney today after a series of indiscretions that prompted disciplinary actions by the state bar and the federal court—including accepting $9,000…
A “fatally flawed” buyout agreement drafted by King & Spalding for the majority owner of the Atlanta Thrashers hockey team cost $194 million in lost franchise value, operating costs and…
A Georgia lawyer has been accused of usury in a malpractice suit that claims he advised two clients to take out a loan at a 50 percent interest rate through…
Arrested, cited for contempt and jailed after she tried to wear a headscarf into a Douglasville, Ga., court two years ago, a Muslim woman filed a federal civil rights lawsuit…
After a federal judge’s acceptance of a plea deal last month, after he was accused of carrying loaded firearms in his vehicle and buying drugs for a stripper with whom…
A former Alabama lawyer is being held in a Georgia jail because he allegedly kept on practicing after having his license suspended in both states, forging court documents and misleading…
Eager to put what his lawyer calls a “tough situation” behind him, a federal judge accused of carrying loaded firearms in his car around the time he allegedly purchased drugs…
In the latest challenge to a controversial nationwide method of registering mortgage ownership, a Virginia lawmaker is requesting an opinion from the state attorney general on whether Mortgage Electronic Registration…
Developing: Perhaps 100 people have been arrested in California, Georgia, Ohio, New Mexico and New York, in a record-breaking Medicare fraud case that allegedly involved $100 million in bogus billings…
Friends are wondering whether a head injury spurred unusual behaviors in a senior federal accused earlier this month of buying drugs from an undercover agent…
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