A federal judge has approved an apparent $4.25 million settlement by Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in a lawsuit by a bankruptcy receiver. The suit had targeted the law firm…
A lawsuit loan company that advanced $25,000 to an Atlanta lawyer and his law firm in exchange for a stake in the litigation has filed a lawsuit that shines a…
Updated: Under fire last year for his alleged role in imposing unauthorized fees on criminal defendants, the chief judge of the Alapaha Judicial Circuit in Georgia has now reportedly been…
Although there’s no proof that a missing Georgia lawyer and her husband are dead, authorities from five law enforcement agencies are searching a landfill for their bodies with the help…
The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that Florida trial lawyer Willie Gary isn’t responsible for $462,000 in back child support and he can’t be held in contempt for failing to…
A consultant’s study of the compensation paid to Georgia judges had “obvious deficiencies,” the president of the Council of Superior Court Judges told legislators at a state senate subcommittee hearing…
Updated: The FBI has joined an ongoing search for a Savannah, Ga., attorney and her husband, a businessman. Both haven’t been seen since Monday and, uncharacteristically, have had their cell…
Flexible work arrangements are key to retaining women lawyers, but the culture of the legal profession doesn’t appear to value part-time work, according to a new study of Georgia law…
A 24-year veteran district attorney in northeast Georgia was sentenced today to a six-year prison term for payroll fraud in which two other Piedmont Judicial Circuit employees, including his wife,…
Federal prosecutors in Atlanta are seeking the forfeiture of nine properties, luxury cars and more than $300,000 owned by three former Home Depot executives under investigation for taking alleged kickbacks.
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