The chief judge of the superior court in Georgia’s Cobb County has resigned after admitting to a local newspaper that he “flicked” the bottoms of two women from the district…
A Georgia family practitioner was arrested at her Stockbridge law office yesterday after allegedly forging a judge’s signature on court orders terminating parental rights in four different adoption cases.
Two Georgia State Ethics Commission lawyers have been criticized in a new report for working on their private law practice on state time and for using state computers to do…
The U.S. Department of Labor sued a Georgia personal injury firm and its former chief executive officer this week, contending that they improperly transferred, lent or used retirement plan assets…
A South Texas College of Law graduate has filed a new breach of contract suit against a lawyer who promised to pay $1 million to anyone who could prove the…
Corrected: Two Georgia attorneys reportedly were operating a private law practice at the same time that they held full-time positions as staff lawyers at the State Ethics Commission.
Corrected: A magistrate judge in Catoosa County, Ga., was reportedly arrested and briefly jailed today after a courthouse standoff with sheriff’s deputies.
Judge Anthony Peters apparently barricaded himself in his…
For the second time in three months, the Georgia Supreme Court has nixed a former Greenberg Traurig associate’s effort to agree to a voluntary suspension of his law license concerning…
A Georgia death-row inmate whose appointed capital defense lawyers were tossed off the case due to funding problems cites a “systemic breakdown of the public defender system” in a petition…
Two years ago, Cliff Lovette was doing legal work for Usher. Now the 54-year-old Atlanta entertainment attorney is practicing law out of his basement and collecting food stamps.
Motivation is becoming a central issue in a discrimination lawsuit filed against an Atlanta restaurant by a lawyer and a former NBA star, both African-Americans, who were asked to give…
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