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  • In The Matter Of John F. Meyers.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-27
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Winslow Hewett, Jenny K. Mittelman, Paula J. Frederick (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: S. Lester Tate, III, W. Matthew Wilson (Akin & Tate PC), Cartersville, for appellee. Herman Maddox Kilgore (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, Bridget B. Bagley, Atlanta; David Anthony LaMalva, (LaMalva Geoffroy & Oeland PC), Conyers; Anthony B. Askew, Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S17Y1593

    The Supreme Court suspended an attorney from the practice of law for two years for his violations of various Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct in connection with improper billing to his law firm's corporate client.

  • Smith v. Northside Hospital, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2017-11-30
    Practice Area: Government | Public Records
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter Crane Canfield, Brian Charles Lea (Jones Day), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Bryan Eugene Bates, James Randolph Evans, Nathan L. Garroway (Dentons US LLP), Atlanta; Stephen Derek Bauer, Ian Kyle Byrnside, James C. Rawls (Baker Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. David E. Hudson, James Brian Ellington (Hull Barrett, PC), Augusta; Steven Elliot Scheer (Scheer Montgomery & Call), Savannah; Sarah Renee Craig (Akerman LLP), Tampa, for amicus appellant. Lee Barrett Carter, Norman S. Fletcher (Brinson Askew Berry Seigler Richardson & Davis, LLP), Rome; Jonathan C. Peters (Peters & Monyak, LLP), Atlanta; Steven P. Gilliam, Roger Brent Hatcher, Jr. (Smith, Gilliam, Williams & Miles, P.A.), Gainesville; Kelly Jean Long Pridgen (Association County Commissioners of Georgia), Atlanta; G. Joseph Scheuer (Assistant General Counsel), Atlanta, for amicus appellee. Annette M. Cowart, Sarah Hawkins Warren, Russell David Willard, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta, for neutral amicus. Charles T. Huddleston, S. Wade Malone, Jessica Rutledge Watson (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP), Atlanta; Jeremy Patrick Burnette, Sidney Summers Welch (Polsinelli, P.C.), Atlanta; Edward Charles Konieczny (Edward C. Konieczny LLC), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S16G1463

    The trial court and Court of Appeals applied the wrong legal standard in dismissing attorney's action to compel hospital to provide him with access to certain documents in response to his request under the Georgia Open Records Act.

  • Benson et al. v. Ward

    Publication Date: 2017-11-21
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A17A0661

    The trial court erred in denying attorney's motion for summary judgment in former client's legal malpractice action because former client could not show that attorney's actions were the proximate cause of damages to the client.

  • Intercontinental Services of Delaware, LLC v. Kent

    Publication Date: 2017-10-30
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Corporate Entities | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A17A0917

    The trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's wrongful death suit for lack of personal jurisdiction, because defendant did not transact any business in Georgia and did not solicit business, or engage in any other persistent course of conduct, in Georgia.

  • Robert H. McNair, As Co-Executor of The Estate of W. O. McNair v. Richard

    Publication Date: 2017-10-18
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stuart Walker, Amy Fletcher (Martin Snow, LLP), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cheryle Bryan (Attorney at Law), Ashburn; William Gregory (Attorney at Law), Vienna; Dustin Land (Bryan and Land, LLC), Ashburn, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A0961

    The trial court erred in awarding attorney fees to appellant in a will contest because the superior court made several findings of fact based on conduct that occurred while the case was under the jurisdiction of the probate court, prior to the appeal of the probate court's order to the superior court, and there was nothing in the record to show that motions appellant's counsel filed lacked merit or were frivolous and no evidence to support a finding that appellant conducted himself improperly in the superior court, unnecessarily expan

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  • Befekadu v. Addis Int'l Money Transfer LLC

    Publication Date: 2017-01-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMillian, Carla W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry Oldham, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amelia Phillips Phillips Law LLC, Alpharetta, and Harold Ehrman, Tucker, for appellees.
    Case Number: A16A0818

    The tria t's factual findings supported a material and logical connection between the issues presented at trial and defense counsel's prior representation of plaintiff LLC; accordingly, the tri

  • Richardson v. Locklyn

    Publication Date: 2017-01-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Boggs, Michael P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy Gardner and Henrietta Brown Gardner Trial Attorneys, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Blevins Blevins Hong PC, and Justin Crocker Crocker Law LLC, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A16A0978

    A hearing is required for the award of attorney fees pursuant to Georgia's offer of ment statute, O.C.G.A. § 9-11-68, which may include the consideration of whether a

  • McHugh Fuller Law Grp. PLLC v. PruittHealth Inc.

    Publication Date: 2016-11-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shannon M. Sprinkle, Tyler J. Wetzel Carlock, Copeland Stair LLP, Atlanta, and Charles E. Peeler Flynn Peeler Phillips LLC, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason E. Bring, John R. Hood Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Atlanta, and Gregory T. Talley Coleman Talley LLP, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S16A0655

    Law firm's advertisements about nursing home did not violate Georgia's trademark anti-dilution statute, O.C.G.A. § 10-1-451 subsection b, and the Court reversed the permanent injunction order that p

  • Devlin v. Devlin

    Publication Date: 2016-09-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Boggs, Michael P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Margaret Devlin, Saylorsburg, PA, proceeded pro se. William Ney, Atlanta, and Patrick Garrard Blasingame, Burch, Garrard Ashley PC, Athens, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A16A0913

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in not permitting the grandmother to appear via telephone for a medi and a final evidentiary hearing on the issue of grandparent visit

  • Lincoln Katherine Williams Irrevocable Trust v. Deliverance Temple Church of God In Christ of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2016-09-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joyce Lewis and Ashley Wilson Shingler Lewis LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Bruce Phillips, Marietta, Cheryl Richardson Richardson Legal Services PC, Calvin Darden, Patricia Darden, and Daryl Williams, Roswell, for appellee.
    Case Number: A15A1933

    The trial court erred in granting judgment on the pleadings for the plaintiff in its declaratory judgment action over the ownership of church property, because there was not a complete failure to st