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  • In the Matter of Jason Lee Van Dyke.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-03
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Lee Van Dyke, (The Marsala Law Group), Denton, for appellee; Daniel S. Reinhardt, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S23Y0225

    Court accepts Special master's recommendation to impose a 3-year suspension of an attorney's Georgia law license due to his plea in Texas criminal proceedings

  • In the Matter of Natalie Spires Paine.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-03
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Shalena Cook Jones, Lauren Parker Purvis, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, Bradley Robert Thompson, (Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y0037

    Court dismisses State Bar's allegations of Rule violations against a prosecutor in a double murder case where attorney-client conversations were recorded

  • Perdue et al. v. Barron et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-17
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Cheeley, (Cheeley Law Group LLC), Alpharetta, Gabrielle Holland, (Attorney at Law), Alpharetta, William Charles Bundren, (Bundren Law Group, PLLC), Frisco, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Joyner, (C. David Joyner, P.C.), Buford, Cheryl Ringer, Mathew Plott, (Fulton County - Office of the County Attorney), Atlanta, Donald Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1528

    Court affirms dismissal of a petition for declaratory and injunctive relief that addressed matters involving the November 2020 general election

  • In the Matter of Willie George Davis, Jr.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-14
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline | Trusts and Estates
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gene Chapman, (Gene Chapman LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y0445

    Disbarment Warranted by Mishandling of Estate and Conservatorship, and Repeated Failures to Comply With Court Orders

  • Inquiry Concerning Judge Christian Coomer.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-12
    Practice Area: Court Administration | Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Prescott Boring, (Judicial Qualifications Commission), Atlanta, Courtney Mays Veal, (Judicial Qualifications Commission), Marietta, Anna Green Cross, (Cross Kincaid LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis T. Cathey, (Cathey & Strain, LLC), Cornelia, Mark Daniel Lefkow, (Copeland, Stair, Valz & Lovell, LLP), Atlanta, Johannes S. Kingma, (Stites & Harbison, PLLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Robert Charles Iverson McBurney, (Superior Court of Fulton County), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S21Z0595

    Judicial Qualifications Commission Lacked Jurisdiction Over Conduct Occurring Before Person Became Judge or Candidate

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  • In the Matter of Nathan E. Hardwick IV.

    Publication Date: 2023-03-31
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristen Wright Novay, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y0502

    Court accepts petition fort voluntary surrender of a law license following petitioner's conviction on numerous felonies involving financial fraud

  • In the Matter of L. Nicole Hamilton.

    Publication Date: 2023-03-30
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, William Dallas NeSmith, Jenny K. Mittelman, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: L. Nicole Brantley, Rincon, for appellee; Quentin LaMont Marlin, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, for other party.
    Case Number: S23Y0201

    Six-Month Suspension Appropriate Discipline Following Attorney's Failure to Return Unearned Fees and Timely Pay Arbitration Award

  • In the Matter of David John Pettinato.

    Publication Date: 2023-03-30
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Warren Raymond Hinds, (Warren R. Hinds, P.C.), Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jenny K. Mittelman, Paula J. Frederick, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y0434

    Ten-Day Suspension Appropriate as Reciprocal Discipline For Similar Discipline Impose on Georgia Attorney Licensed in Florida

  • In the Matter of Dana Nicole Jackson.

    Publication Date: 2023-03-30
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dana Nicole Jackson, (The Law Office of Dana N. Jackson), Snellville, for appellee; Samuel Jeffrey Rusbridge, (Dyer & Rusbridge, P.C.), Canton, for other party.
    Case Number: S23Y0451

    Disbarment Was Appropriate Sanction After Attorney Knowingly Converted Client's Property

  • In the Matter of Gus Vincent Soto.

    Publication Date: 2023-03-17
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andreea N. Morrison, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gus Vincent Soto, (Soto Dui Defense), Tallahassee, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y0438

    Court approves disbarment of attorney in Georgia as reciprocal discipline to his suspension from the practice of law in Florida