Filter This View

  • Howe & Assocs. PC v. Daniels

    Publication Date: 2006-06-30
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott M. Stevens Howe & Assocs., Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tony A. Taylor Daniels & Taylor, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05G1913

    O.C.G.A. § 15-19-14 b prevents dismissal of a suit after settlement to defeat a valid attorney's fee

  • In re Otuonye

    Publication Date: 2006-06-09
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vincent C. Otuonye, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles A. Spahos, Solicitor General, and Gilbert A. Crosby Solicitor General's Office, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0075

    The trial court was entitled to impose a fine in the amount of the appellant's earned fees, if any, as punishment for effectively holding the appellant in criminal contempt for failing to appear in

  • Winzer v. EHCA Dunwoody LLC

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven G. Early, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Michael D. Robl Thomerson, Spears & Robl LLC, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2049; A05A2179

    The Supreme Court's decision in Eckles v. Atlanta Technology Group, 267 Ga. 801 1997, which established that only a licensed attorney can represent a corporation in a proceeding in a court of record

  • Bulat v. Bulat

    Publication Date: 2006-02-24
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David M. Kupsky McKenney & Froelich, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sandra H. Taylor, LaGrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05F1980

    The husband acquiesced to an informal procedure for determining his wife's attorneys fees in their divorce action, in which his wife would submit her request for attorneys' fees with an itemized bi

  • Kirschner & Venker PC v. Taylor & Martino PC

    Publication Date: 2006-02-24
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barry B. McGough, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Baxter L. Davis Davis, Matthews & Quigley, and William U. Norwood III Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A2283

    The plaintiff had no cause of action for an equal share of a $1.5 million contingency fee, because the underlying client fired the plaintiff before any settlement was reached in his

  • Law Journal Press | Digital Book

    Anatomy of a Merger: Strategies and Techniques for Negotiating Corporate Acquisitions

    Authors: James C. Freund

    View this Book

    View more book results for the query "*"

  • Williams v. Cooper

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rita T. Williams Williams & Assocs., Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert J. Hunter Hunter, Weinstein & Somerstein LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1949

    Attorneys' fees against one party's counsel in a domestic relations case could not stand because the attorney was not given an adequate hearing on the subject of the fees aw

  • Nicely v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-01-20
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dexter M. Wimbish, College Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: Norman S. Gunter, District Attorney, Dahlonega, and Kerry I. Banister, Assistant District Attorney, Cleveland, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0263

    The defendant's request to discharge his court-appointed attorney just days before his trial was merely a dilatory t

  • Marks v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-22
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teddy R. Price, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, and Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1729

    The defendant had no First Amendment right to hold himself out as an attorney, when he was unqualified to practic

  • City of Atlanta v. Southern States Police Benevolent Assoc. of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2005-12-16
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry D. Fellows Jr. and Laurie E. Dugoniths Fellows, Johnson & La Briola LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Norman J. Slawsky Jacobs & Slawsky, Mary C. Cooney, Atlanta, and Grady K. Dukes, McDonough, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A1131

    The boards of three city of Atlanta defined benefit pension plans have the authority to hire a third party administrator to handle the administration of the pension benefits and to obtain advice fro

  • Joseph H. King Jr. PC v. Lessinger

    Publication Date: 2005-11-18
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Louis R. Feingold Northcutt, Edwards & Feingold and Joseph H. King Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Y. Kevin Williams, Stephen R. Kane and Allison M. Richardson Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1255

    When a attorney is discharged before the contingency in a contingency fee contract occurs, the discharged attorney is limited to pursuing the equitable remedy of quantum meruit against his c