Georgia

Lawyer Uses His Head in My Bald Lawyer Ad Campaign

If you are injured and in need of a lawyer, Chandler Mason hopes you will remember his bald head. Mason, an Atlanta personal injury lawyer, is differentiating himself in a crowded field with billboards picturing himself and promoting his website, MyBaldLawyer.com. Legal Blog Watch and the legal marketing blog The…

Oct 6, 2011 1:00 PM CDT

Atlanta Law School Tries to Snag Would-Be Students with Smartphone Applications

Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School has introduced a law school application form designed for smartphones and tablets. John Marshall says it is the first law school in the country to facilitate applications through portable devices. “Law school applications are down across the board, but one law school is trying to…

Oct 4, 2011 11:39 AM CDT

Lawyer Gets Three-Year Suspension After Someone Settles Cases Without Her Knowledge

A onetime Georgia lawyer who closed her solo practice in 2009 and moved to Florida has been suspended for three years after three cases were settled without her knowledge. Tara Susann Wofford had filed a petition for voluntary discipline that sought a retroactive suspension of one to three years, according…

Oct 4, 2011 10:28 AM CDT

Hooters Sues Former Executive, Claims He Stole Documents to Help Twin Peaks Rival

Hooters of America claims in a lawsuit that a former executive who leaped to a competitor took confidential documents along with him. The suit filed in federal court in Atlanta claims former Hooters vice president Joseph Hummel downloaded more than 500 pages of sensitive business information and trade secrets before…

Oct 3, 2011 2:44 PM CDT

Gov’t Asks Fed’l Court to Vacate Guilty Plea of Ga. Judge to Honest Services Fraud Conspiracy

A longtime Georgia judge avoided prison in 2009 by taking a plea in a federal corruption case. Now it appears that he likely will also avoid a conviction in the case: Federal prosecutors are joining the defense in seeking to vacate the guilty plea of Brooks E. Blitch III to…

Sep 30, 2011 10:01 AM CDT

Two Law Grads Who Didn’t Tell Schools of Full Criminal Pasts Are Barred from Bar Exam

The Georgia Supreme Court is refusing to allow two law graduates to take the state bar exam partly because they didn’t reveal their entire criminal histories on their law school applications. In the two cases decided on Sept. 12, the supreme court refused to grant certificates of fitness to practice…

Sep 26, 2011 1:23 PM CDT

Troy Davis Execution Tonight Is Delayed as Nation’s Top Court Mulls Last-Minute Appeal

The scheduled 7 p.m. execution of Troy Davis has been temporarily postponed, as the U.S. Supreme Court mulls arguments by both sides in a last-minute appeal, reports ABC News. Articles in the Guardian and USA Today provide additional details. Plans to put the Georgia inmate to death tonight have sparked…

Sep 22, 2011 12:15 AM CDT

Death-Row Inmate Troy Davis, Who Claims Actual Innocence, Loses Bid for Clemency

Updated: Death-row inmate Troy Anthony Davis is set to be executed on Wednesday after the Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole denied his bid for clemency. Amnesty International released a statement criticizing the decision on Tuesday, CNN reports. “Allowing a man to be sent to death under an enormous cloud…

Sep 20, 2011 1:20 PM CDT

Jury Awards Zip in $3M Case Brought By Ex-NBA Star and Attorney Asked to Give Up Seats at Bar

A former basketball star and an attorney, both black, sought $3 million in damages over allegedly discriminatory practices at a popular Atlanta tavern, contending that they were forced to give up their seats for white women for an improper purpose. But a federal jury in Atlanta wasn’t convinced, deliberating only…

Sep 16, 2011 10:50 PM CDT

Atlanta Thrashers Ownership Group Settles $195M Malpractice Suit Against King & Spalding

A group that recently sold the Atlanta Thrashers hockey team has settled a malpractice suit against King & Spalding. Terms of the settlement were confidential, according to the Associated Press, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Am Law Daily. The $195 million suit, filed in January by the Atlanta Spirit group,…

Sep 14, 2011 6:07 PM CDT

Lawyer with 4 Prior DUI Arrests Gets 25 Years in Fatal Drunken-Driving Crash

An Atlanta lawyer with a history of alcohol problems and bipolar disorder admittedly had no business getting behind the wheel on Oct. 1, 2006. But Antonio Tolliver did, on his way home from a Falcon football game at which he’d had quite a bit to drink. His blood-alcohol level was…

Sep 12, 2011 11:58 PM CDT

Ga. Magistrate Is Ousted for Smoking Pot, Pulling Gun, Disparaging Boss, Kicking in Doors

A pot-smoking, boss-bashing Georgia magistrate judge won’t be presiding over any more cases as a result of a ruling today by the state supreme court. Magistrate Judge Anthony Peters of Catoosa County will not be allowed to return to the bench as a result of varied misbehavior ranging from illegal…

Sep 6, 2011 4:22 PM CDT

Judge Who Let Child Molestation Case Fall Through the Cracks Resigns Amid Probe

A Georgia judge who acknowledged he let a child molestation case fall through the cracks has resigned amid an ethics investigation into the case and two other issues. Judge Douglas Pullen of Columbus agreed to step down before the Judicial Qualifications Commission could begin a formal hearing into the allegations,…

Aug 30, 2011 3:44 PM CDT

Prof Acquitted of Battery; Prosecutors Claimed He Closed Laptop on Student’s Finger

A professor accused of shutting a student’s laptop on her finger has been acquitted of battery. Georgia jurors acquitted Frank Rybicki earlier this month, report Inside Higher Ed and the Spectator. He is an assistant professor of mass media at Valdosta State University in Georgia. Rybicki admits he shut the…

Aug 29, 2011 11:00 AM CDT

Suspect in Killing of Mercer Law Grad Had Talked of a Perfect Murder, Police Say

The suspect in the killing of Mercer University law graduate Lauren Giddings once talked of committing the perfect murder, according to a police officer who testified in a court hearing today. Macon police detective David Patterson outlined the evidence against suspect Stephen McDaniel, who graduated from the law school with…

Aug 26, 2011 5:03 PM CDT