Cedra Mayfield

April 28, 2021 | Daily Report Online

"There's been only one African American appointment to the Fulton County Superior Court in the last 18 years," said attorney Wayne B. Kendall.

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

April 27, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Use this searchable chart to see everyone who has risen to the bench on a gubernatorial appointment between March 30, 2011, and Feb. 22, 2021.

By Cedra Mayfield

1 minute read

April 26, 2021 | Daily Report Online

"This is where the trial court appears to have messed up," said estate attorney Ronald L. Hilley II. They were looking at the weight of the evidence and instead should have just been looking at whether there still remains a 'genuine dispute of material fact.'"

By Cedra Mayfield

3 minute read

April 26, 2021 | Daily Report Online

"I don't know what to say about the process," said trial attorney Kelli Hooper, who's tried four times to become a judge. "There seems to be something else going on."

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

April 23, 2021 | Daily Report Online

The Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit is homing in on one of its biggest goals since the coronavirus forced it to shutter in 2020: strategically slicing…

By Cedra Mayfield

3 minute read

April 22, 2021 | Daily Report Online

"All of the superior courtrooms are located at the very top of the building, at the very top of an antiquated, obsolete elevator shaft with equally antiquated, obsolete elevator cars," one judge said. "It can take a long time to get jurors up there."

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

April 22, 2021 | Law.com

"I was not expecting to be doing two to four closings a month for six months straight," said real estate agent Nicole Jones. "I had my busiest year last year, and I'm busier this year."

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

April 21, 2021 | Daily Report Online

"It is a constant struggle to remember that I belong exactly where I am and that it is a result of the hard work I put in," said lawyer Tremaine Hemans. "The learning curve as a new attorney is daunting."

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

April 21, 2021 | Law.com

"When I first found out that we had lost the baby, I called our managing partner and the other partners I work with and told them," said attorney Kelsey Kicklighter.

By Cedra Mayfield

3 minute read

April 20, 2021 | Daily Report Online

"This case asks whether an award of nominal damages by itself can redress a past injury," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the U.S. Supreme Court. "We hold that it can."

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read