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…
Four hours before a convicted murderer was scheduled to be put to death today, the Georgia Supreme Court halted the execution and ordered a trial judge to consider Carlton Gary’s…
The Georgia Supreme Court has adopted new rules that help out-of-state lawyers who volunteer for state offices and nonprofits get valuable courtroom experience.
A Georgia judge this morning found a 12-year-old boy not guilty of murdering his baby cousin, saying that the defendant hadn’t intended to kill the five-week-old girl.
An insurance company that not only refused its contractual duty to defend a policyholder but appealed a trial court’s ruling that the duty to defend was not a close case…
A 56-year-old Georgia securities law practitioner and another man have been criminally charged in federal court in North Carolina concerning an alleged interstate investment fraud.
A Georgia law firm that handled debt collections has collapsed amid allegations that it paid its own expenses with client money that had been designated for filing fees.
The Georgia Supreme Court quickly intervened yesterday after a Fulton County judge sent an assistant district attorney to jail and then threatened her boss with contempt for a “ruckus” that…
A federal judge in Georgia has banned reporters from sending live-action tweets from his courtroom, saying that Twitter is a form of broadcasting and hence prohibited under Rule 53 of…
A Savannah lawyer and her husband have been declared dead by a Georgia judge, more than a year after they disappeared following a meeting with a bookkeeper they suspected of…
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