• Heaton Erecting, Inc. et al. v. Gierum

    Publication Date: 2024-03-13
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Watts, G. Hoffman, (Swift Currie McGhee & Hiers LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Moskowitz, (Law Office of David H. Moskowitz), Atlanta, Rebecca Halberg, (Stottlemyer & Associates), Atlanta, for appellee; Amy Urban, (Georgia State Board of Workers’ Compensation), Atlanta, for other party; Alex Wallach, (George & Wallach, LLLP), Forest Park Kyle Smith, (Evans Warncke Robinson, LLC), Atlanta, for AM.

    Case Number: A23A1588

    Court affirms Workers' Compensation Award in a case where injured worker also received income from concurrent dissimilar employment

  • Smith et al. v. Millsap et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-10
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Civil Procedure | Court Administration
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Holm, (Blaska Holm LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ryan Millsap, Atlanta, Aaron Clark, (Kan Clark, LLP), Atlanta, Halsey Knapp, Jessica Cino, (Krevolin Horst, Inc.), Atlanta, David Houtsma, (David Houtsma Law Firm LLC), Cumming, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0651

    Trial Court Properly Disbursed Registry Funds Based on Attorney's Lien After Arbitrator Rejected Attorney's Fee Claim

  • Milliron v. Antonakakis

    Publication Date: 2023-08-31
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Public Records
    Industry: Education | Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lucas Andrews, (Poole Huffman LLC), Tucker, Anna Cross, Meredith Kincaid, (Cross Kincaid), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Theodore Randles, Mark Schamel, (Venable LLP), Washington, Ana Jara, Christopher Schafbuch, (Lowenstein Sandler LLP), Washington, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1163

    Open Records Request Not Properly Submitted For Failure to Direct Request to Designated Open Records Officer

  • Think Development Systems, Inc. v. Cloudious, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-08-29
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Consulting
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore Lackland, (Lackland & Associates LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cody Wigington, (Wigington LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1042

    Questions of Fact Presented as to Whether Parties Modified Agreement or Waived Strict Compliance

  • Salter et al. v. St. Charles Homeowners Association, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-11
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Real Estate
    Industry: Legal Services | Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. DuBose, (DuBose Law Group LLC), Madison, Hal Wright, (Hal Wright Attorney at Law, LLC), Athens, Brittain Hunt, (Pulliam Law Group), Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sean Keenan, Sunshine Nasworthy, (Cruser Mitchell Novitz Sanchez Gaston & Zimet LLP), Norcross, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0620

    Homeowners Association Had Authority to Prohibit Construction of Above-Ground Pool

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  • Portman v. Zipperer et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-13
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathryn Pinckney, (Savage & Turner, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Francesca Macchiaverna, (Hunter Maclean), Savannah, for appellee; Beverly O’Hearn, (Lueder, Larkin & Hunter, LLC), Savannah, for other party.

    Case Number: A23A0213

    Orders Awarding Attorney Fees Failed to Include Necessary Factual Findings and Conclusions of Law

  • Ellis v. Seaver

    Publication Date: 2023-04-20
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Civil Procedure
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Troy Ellis, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Diana Young, (Young Law Firm, LLC), Marietta, for appellee; Tatyana Ellis, Cumming, for other party.

    Case Number: A23A0125

    Trial Court Lacked Authority to Impose Attorney Fee Award Against Non-Party

  • Taylor v. The Devereux Foundation, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-13
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Constitutional Law | Damages | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care | Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Timothy Rogers, Andrew Timothy Rogers, Kara Elizabeth Phillips William Michael D’Antignac, (Deitch & Rogers, LLC), Atlanta, Melvin L. Hewitt, Jr., Hilary Wayne Hunter, (Isenberg & Hewitt, PC), Atlanta, Naveen Ramachandrappa, Joshua Ferber Thorpe, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Farish Barr, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young, LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, Matthew D. Friedlander, Jeff Sandman, (Webb, Daniel, Friedlander, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Maxwell Kent Thelen, Andrew Steven Ashby, (Ashby Thelen Lowry), Marietta, for Amicus Appellant; Ross Warren Bergethon, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Brian Charles Lea, (Jones Day), Atlanta, Matthew J. Rubenstein, (Jones Day), Minneapolis, Letitia A. McDonald, Robert B. Friedman, Erin Munger, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, Anna Sumner Pieschel, Philip S. Goldberg, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP), Atlanta, Washington, David Christopher Hanson, (The Hanson Firm), Atlanta, Anthony J. Sebok, (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law), New York John C.P. Goldberg, (Harvard Law School), Cambridge, for Amicus Appellee; Rosser Adams Malone, (Malone Law Office), Atlanta, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Canton, Rory A. Weeks, (Canella Snyder LLC), Decatur, Jeffrey R. White, (Center for Constitutional Litigation, P.C.), Washington, Malissa Anne Kaufold-Wiggins, James D. Meadows, (Balch & Bingham, LLP), Atlanta, Jacob Edward Daly, Elissa Blache Haynes, P. Michael Freed, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Philip Michael Thompson, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, for other party.

    Case Number: S22A1060

    Statutory Cap on Punitive Damages Does Not Violate State Constitutional Right to Jury Trial

  • Rayfield v. Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, Morrison & Norwood, P.C

    Publication Date: 2022-11-22
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neal Callahan, Clarence Mullin, David Rayfield, (Waldrep, Mullin and Callahan, LLC), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Neal Pope, Kimberly Johnson, (Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, Morrison & Norwood), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0955

    Court reverses denial of a motion to transfer venue in a compensation dispute between a lawyer and his former firm

  • McDonald & Cody v. State Of Georgia

    Publication Date: 2022-07-22
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Civil Procedure
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Cork, (Attorney at Law), Decatur, Douglas McDonald, Samuel Sliger, (McDonald & Cody LLC), Cornelia, Jackson McDonald, (McDonald & Cody LLC), Alto, for appellant.
    for defendant: Marianne Gelakoska, (District Attorney’s Office - Appalacian Judicial Circuit), Ellijay, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0531

    Attorneys' Lien in Forfeiture Case Was Perfected After Attorneys Obtained Final Judgment For Return of Property to Clients