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National labor firm raids Littler and Ogletree, opens new offices in Denver and New York

Atlanta-based Constangy Brooks & Smith has raided two well-known labor and employment firms and some BigLaw competitors, gaining 12 attorneys, two new offices and an additional name partner in the process. Don Prophete, who practices in Kansas City, will be the new name on the marquee for the nearly 160-attorney…

Mar 5, 2015 1:50 PM CST

LeClairRyan opens Atlanta office with 2 partners from Troutman Sanders

A rapidly growing law firm with longstanding roots in Richmond, Virginia, is expanding its footprint in the Southeast. LeClairRyan announced this week that it is opening an Atlanta office with two partners from Troutman Sanders. The 380-attorney LeClairRyan also recently opened offices in Sacramento, California, and Houston, Texas, notes the…

Feb 13, 2015 2:30 PM CST

Lawyer’s new Super Bowl ad: Fire, religion, claimed political corruption and anti-bullying message

Personal injury lawyer Jamie Casino aired a Super Bowl ad last year in his hometown market that captured global attention, racking up some 5.6 million views on the Internet. So it was perhaps almost inevitable, following the high profile of his earlier effort, that reaction to the Georgia trial attorney’s…

Feb 4, 2015 9:45 AM CST

Judge in hot-car case suddenly resigns; lawyer says profession needs to ‘stop abusing its members’

A Georgia judge who made headlines during a hot-car case abruptly resigned from the bench last week, submitting what appeared to be a hastily written resignation letter that misspelled the governor’s name. Cobb County Chief Magistrate Judge Frank Cox said he was taking health leave, effective immediately, and resigning on…

Feb 3, 2015 9:42 AM CST

Inmate is executed after SCOTUS stay denial in litigation over mental-disability proof

Georgia inmate Warren Lee Hill was put to death on Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court declined a stay of execution in a battle over the state’s standard to determine intellectual disability. Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor dissented from a stay denial by the U.S. Supreme Court, one…

Jan 28, 2015 10:13 AM CST

Man is ticketed for eating double quarter-pounder with cheese while driving

An Alabama man who ordered a double quarter-pounder with cheese last week at a McDonald’s restaurant in Georgia could soon find himself arguing to a local judge that he deserves a break today. Madison Turner says he was pulled over in Marietta for eating the burger while driving and has…

Jan 20, 2015 11:00 AM CST

Judge commits lawyer who tried to back out of agreed mental evaluation

A suspended Georgia lawyer won a delay of a contempt hearing last week by voluntarily agreeing to a psychiatric evaluation. But Christopher Nicholson was involuntarily committed the next day by the same judge, when he tried to leave the Georgia Regents Medical Center Hospital before the exam was complete. Hospital…

Jan 5, 2015 12:40 PM CST

Lawyer shows up late to his own contempt hearing, scolds judge

A lawyer in Augusta, Georgia, showed up 15 minutes late on Monday for a hearing to determine whether he should be held in contempt of court, then scolded the judge. “Surely you didn’t start without me,” the lawyer, Christopher Nicholson , told the judge, according to an account by the…

Dec 30, 2014 6:56 AM CST

Judge dismisses lawyer’s suit against courthouse deputy over cellphone tussle

A federal judge has, for the second time, tossed an Atlanta lawyer’s lawsuit claiming she was injured when a courthouse deputy grabbed her cellphone after she refused to remove her jacket during security screening. U.S. District Judge Richard Story of Atlanta dismissed (PDF) the case filed by lawyer Lisa West,…

Dec 12, 2014 7:59 AM CST

Man who falsely claimed to have Ebola gets 10-year suspended sentence

Originally charged in a Georgia misdemeanor driving-under-the influence case, Harry Randall Withers has pleaded guilty to three false-statements felonies after incorrectly claiming that he had recently traveled to Africa and might have the deadly Ebola virus. Although he was sentenced to a 10-year prison term in the Cobb County case,…

Dec 5, 2014 4:37 PM CST

Feds cite ‘epidemic’ of debt-collection abuse, charge 7 individuals and company in ongoing probe

A Georgia-based debt-collection company, its owner and six employees have been criminally charged in what is described by federal authorities as a $4.1 million national scheme that took advantage of more than 6,000 people. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of Manhattan, who is overseeing the case, says a larger investigation of…

Nov 18, 2014 5:17 PM CST

Founder of Troutman Sanders, a former governor, dies at 89

The founder of the law firm now known as Troutman Sanders has died at the age of 89. Carl Sanders had an impressive record of achievement before he founded the law firm, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Associated Press and a press release. According to the Journal-Constitution, Sanders “gave…

Nov 18, 2014 9:40 AM CST

Stuck in traffic en route to court, Georgia lawyer is told to pay $200 to charity when she arrives

A Georgia judge overseeing a high-profile trial about cheating on standardized tests at Atlanta public schools had warned attorneys at the outset that they could face a $200 fine if they were late to court. On Wednesday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter lowered the boom. “Pick out a…

Nov 5, 2014 11:25 AM CST

PGA star claims law firm stole $3M to help cover shortfall after managing partner embezzlement

Attorneys at a Georgia law firm who served as trusted advisors to a PGA star golfer stole $3 million of his money through a theft and embezzlement scheme, a federal lawsuit alleges. Plaintiff Dustin Johnson says then-managing partner Nathan “Nat” Hardwick IV of Morris Hardwick Schneider, now known as Morris…

Nov 3, 2014 11:00 AM CST

Woman’s condo is sold at auction because of $95 overdue tax bill; she says she never received notice

A woman in Norcross, Georgia, says her home was sold at auction because she never received notice about an overdue tax bill of $94.85. Homeowner Xui Lui says she paid cash for her condo in 2011, but she didn’t pay the city tax the first year because she never got…

Oct 21, 2014 10:57 AM CDT

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