A split Georgia Supreme Court has overturned a controversial system of secretive post-conviction review panels that since its inception has reduced sentences for hundreds of prisoners in the state.
Coca-Cola lawyers are seeking a declaratory judgment that Coke Zero is not infringing the copyright of a water company that markets Naturally Zero Canadian Natural Spring Water.
Updated: Law firms big and small have the urge to merge, seeking to appeal to the many corporations that look to major law firms for legal representation.
Updated: A retired Fulton County magistrate judge, along with family members (including a son who is a sheriff’s deputy), has been arrested and charged with human trafficking concerning a nanny…
Practicing law is a family affair for Franklin Horne Jr. The 63-year-old real estate attorney and developer has his own firm in Macon, Ga., where he practices with his son,…
A plan to save money by eliminating an office of public defenders handling some Atlanta cases has raised the ire of the chief judge and prompted concerns by the local…
Alston & Bird is close to a settlement with a bankruptcy trustee to resolve allegations of legal malpractice and fee overcharges, according to the Fulton…
An inmate who claimed his lawyer said he deserved to die waited for 35 minutes yesterday while his executioners struggled to find a vein for his lethal injection.
When Lowell Fine departed March 31 from the Atlanta litigation boutique he helped found 26 years earlier, he handed in his resignation and left the same day, a former colleague…
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