• In the Matter of Keith Chance Hardy.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-22
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    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, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith Chance Hardy, Columbus, for appellee; Delia T. Crouch, (Law Office of Delia T. Crouch), Newnan, for other party.

    Case Number: S23Y0869

    Disbarment Appropriate For Attorney Who Abandoned Clients, Converted Client Property, and Demonstrated Lack of Competence

  • In the Matter of Richard H. Middleton, Jr.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard H. Middleton, Jr. (Middleton LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Wolanda R. Shelton, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23Y0922

    Voluntary Surrender of License Appropriate Discipline Following Misuse of Client Funds in Single-Client Matter

  • Burnette v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-07-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Hoort, Mableton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sherry Boston, Jason Rea, (DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0716

    Sufficient Evidence Established That Defendant Knowingly Provided Minor Victim For Purpose of Sexual Servitude

  • In the Matter of Ian Zimmerman.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-27
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    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: Ian Zimmerman, (Zimmerman Law Firm), Valdosta, for appellee; Quentin LaMont Marlin, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, for other party.

    Case Number: S23Y0492

    Court orders disbarment of attorney who had violated numerous rules of professional conduct

  • In the Matter of David Roberson.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-27
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kimberly Laverne Copeland, (Kimberly L. Copeland & Associates, LLC), Jesup, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Allen Earles, Rebecca S. Mick, (Georgia Office of Bar Admissions), Atlanta, Jennifer Colangelo, Russell David Willard, Christopher M. Carr, Bryan Keith Webb, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23Z0402

    Court affirms disbarred attorney's petition for readmission, finding that the attorney had not been rehabilitated and was not fit to practice

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  • In the Matter of Brian Walton Whiteside.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-27
    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: Gene Chapman, (Gene Chapman LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23Y0579

    Court accepts attorney's petition for voluntary discipline and imposes a three-month suspension of his law license in response to his multiple rule violations

  • In the Matter of Craig S. Bonnell.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-26
    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: Craig S. Bonnell, (Craig S.Bonnell, Attorney at Law), Rincon, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23Y0123

    Court rejects the State bar's petition for a public reprimand of an attorney because the record was unclear as to several matters involving the attorney's misconduct

  • In the Matter of Claud L. McIver III.

    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: Amanda Rourk Clark Palmer, Donald Franklin Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andreea N. Morrison, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23Y0621

    Court accepts attorney's petition to voluntarily surrender his license to practice law in Georgia following his felony conviction for influencing a witness

  • 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