As the northwest Georgia community of Dalton comes to grips with a suicide bombing at a law firm that left the main suspect dead and a name partner in critical…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens called a Georgia capital case “particularly troubling” in a statement issued today, but said he agreed with the decision to deny certiorari.
The son of a suicide bomber who critically injured a name partner of a Georgia law firm said he tried to have his father involuntarily hospitalized, without success.
A lawyer who lives in an upscale suburb of St. Louis was injured yesterday when he picked up an apparent package bomb left next to his car in its assigned…
An explosion at a personal injury law firm in downtown Dalton, Ga., this morning injured four people, including at least one lawyer, and resulted in the death of the apparent…
The Georgia Supreme Court has reprimanded and imposed a one-month suspension on a lawyer who said he ignored discovery requests in a 2006 case in part because he was dealing…
A federal bankruptcy judge in Miami has tossed a suit by the U.S. Trustee against Countrywide, ruling the agency has no authority to sanction companies for alleged bad faith conduct.
As budget cuts resulted in layoffs this week for four lawyers who have each worked at the Georgia Court of Appeals for well over a decade, at least one member…
It seemed like a routine court hearing. Everyone was in a good mood, and Georgia Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes had just made one of his trademark jokes.
Smith, Gambrell & Russell has answered an $80 million bankruptcy trustee’s malpractice complaint by quoting an opinion by Judge Frank Easterbrook questioning the litigation judgment of some bankruptcy trustees.
Lawyer Stephen Bright, president of the Southern Center for Human Rights, had told officials he wanted to help an ex-con get his life on track when he…
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