Cedra Mayfield

November 14, 2024 | Daily Report Online

"[W]e all benefit from having programs that meet people where they are," the judge said.

By Cedra Mayfield

7 minute read

November 13, 2024 | Daily Report Online

As 49 new probate judges prepare to take the bench across the state in January, the Council of Probate Court Judges of Georgia is opening up about the training it's offering to ensure its newcomers don't end up on the Judicial Qualification Commission of Georgia's list of ethics violaters.

By Cedra Mayfield

7 minute read

November 12, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Sitting jurists are opening up about the impact former Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings-Moore had on both the court and their legal careers.

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

November 11, 2024 | Daily Report Online

From tearful speeches to thunderous applause, members of Georgia's legal community expressed their gratitude for Georgia Court of Appeals Judge M. Yvette Miller during a recent retirement ceremony at the intermediate appellate court.

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

November 07, 2024 | Daily Report Online

"Is it your read of Paragraph V, that Paragraph V expanded sovereign immunity to claims that it had never applied to before?," Presiding Justice Nels S. D. Peterson asked appellant counsel during oral arguments Wednesday.

By Cedra Mayfield

7 minute read

November 06, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Respondent counsel for Chatham County Probate Judge Thomas C. Bordeaux Jr. disagreed the jurist's conduct "amount[ed] to willful misconduct in office; a willful and persistent failure to perform the duties of office; and conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice which brings the judicial office into disrepute."

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

November 05, 2024 | Daily Report Online

"To allow a waiver as a result of an amendment would strain a court's discretion when the complaint is deficient in the first place," read an appellant brief filed on behalf of Cobb County governmental defendants.

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

November 04, 2024 | Daily Report Online

"Allstate requested that my settlement remain confidential, but I rejected that request because I'm convinced stories like yours do more to hold companies like Allstate accountable than any settlement or verdict ever could," plaintiff counsel Richard Kopelman of told the Daily Report.

By Cedra Mayfield

7 minute read

November 01, 2024 | Law.com

In this week's Legal Speak episode, Jen Patton, the chief talent officer for Foley & Lardner in Houston, and Leigh Riley, a Milwaukee partner and member of the firm's management committee, speak with ALM senior business of law reporter Brenda Sapino Jeffreys about how the firm's new partner training program can help benefit lawyers throughout their careers.

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1 minute read

October 31, 2024 | Daily Report Online

"This committee will use data-driven methodologies to be innovative in exploring and discerning what regulatory reforms could address the issues preventing Georgians from receiving critical civil legal services without diminishing consumer protections," said committee chair Justice Carla Wong McMillian in a statement Thursday.

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read