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January 15, 2008 |

State Court Judge Newkirk named to Superior seat

Gov. Sonny Perdue has elevated Judge Henry M. Newkirk of the Fulton County State Court to the Fulton Superior bench."I'm very excited," said Newkirk on Monday. "I'm looking forward to the challenges and happy to be putting my 30 years of experience to work.Newkirk will replace Judge Stephanie B. Manis, who assumed senior status last October.
3 minute read
July 19, 2010 |

Davis, Schaeffer lead in COA funds

While partisan campaigns are peaking toward Tuesday's primary, hopefuls for statewide judicial posts have been quietly collecting contributions for their November contests.Two candidates for the Court of Appeals have each raised more than $100,000 by the end of June, when disclosure reports to the State Ethics Commission were due.
7 minute read
October 10, 2012 |

Pioneer in aid to clients with breast cancer finds new role

Haley Schwartz, founder of a pioneering program at Atlanta Legal Aid Society that provides legal services to women with breast cancer, joined trusts and estates boutique Abrams, Davis, Mason & Long last week.
7 minute read
October 02, 2003 |

$2.2M Hushes Investor Claims

Trisha [email protected] Red Hot Law Group of Ashley, once Atlanta's version of a Silicon Valley law firm, has settled legal malpractice claims brought by a failed dot-com and its shareholders.Red Hot, acquired by McKenna Long Aldridge in October 2001, entered into a $2.2 million class action settlement that will go to 89 YuSave shareholders, and it also paid $35,714 to its one-time client, YuSave.
7 minute read
January 06, 2012 |

$293k awarded in botched organ surgery

A Forsyth County Superior Court jury has awarded $293,000 for an injury incurred during gall bladder removal surgery.Attorneys for both sides acknowledged that the doctor mistakenly clipped the common bile duct during a laparoscopic gall bladder surgery. The plaintiff contended the doctor should have looked at the patient's anatomy before cutting.
5 minute read
September 01, 2010 |

Askew protge leaves K&S for Ballard Spahr

Intellectual property litigator Katrina M. Quicker has left a partnership at King Spalding for one at Ballard Spahr, which acquired local intellectual property boutique Needle Rosenberg two years ago.Quicker joined Ballard Spahr two weeks ago, leaving behind her mentor, Anthony B. Askew, whom she said she'd worked with since she started practicing law at Kilpatrick Stockton in 2000.
5 minute read
September 07, 2007 |

Bankruptcy Trustee Wins $991K for Malpractice in Wrongful Death Case

A lawyer and an insurance defense firm that didn't talk to their client before a wrongful death trial have been hit with a $991,950 legal malpractice verdict. But one of the plaintiffs lawyers who won that verdict says jurors should have awarded at least $1.7 million, the amount of the verdict against the former client. That wrongful death verdict forced the client into bankruptcy, and it was the bankruptcy trustee who pursued the malpractice suit -- meaning the former client won't see any of the $991,950.
6 minute read
August 03, 2011 |

Settlement ends bus wreck case

After what one attorney termed two days of "shuttle diplomacy" as lawyers and plaintiffs met with a mediator at a Columbus, Ohio, convention center, the last of three insurers for Bluffton University agreed to pay $11 million to the families and survivors of the 2007 wreck of a bus carrying a college baseball team that killed seven people and injured 28 others.
7 minute read
June 10, 2004 |

Legal Aid Teams With Hospitals to Help Poor

Meredith [email protected] Atlanta Legal Aid Society has an unlikely new partner: doctors.Children's Healthcare of Atlanta has agreed to allow lawyers to work out of its two hospitals, Children's at Scottish Rite and Children's at Egleston, to help patients whose health problems stem from poverty. For instance, a child might be admitted with severe asthma caused by living in a mold-infested apartment.
6 minute read
February 19, 2008 |

Verdicts & Settlements: Case closed, but location of Mitchell papers unknown

A case involving the ownership of a cache of documents relating to "Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell and her brother, Stephens Mitchell, has been quietly settled, but the whereabouts and ultimate destination of the disputed papers remains a mystery.The documents were uncovered by a Canton man, Philip Battles, who inherited an old filing cabinet his father had bought along with a load of abandoned furniture in the mid-'70s.
4 minute read

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