Cedra Mayfield is a litigation reporter with the Daily Report, the ALM newspaper in Atlanta. She can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @cedramayfield
June 27, 2023 | Daily Report Online
Delays in This Court Are Frustrating Ga. Attorneys, but Admins Have a Solution"I may not have any response from a judge or his [or] her staff for an order on a hearing that was held over 19 months ago," said Elizabeth Green Lindsey of Davis, Matthews & Quigley.
By Cedra Mayfield
7 minute read
June 26, 2023 | Daily Report Online
Farewell, Judge: This Fulton County Jurist Is 'Seeking to Get an "A" in Retirement'Effective June 1, the Fulton County Superior Court judge's retirement leaves a vacancy in the Family Division.
By Cedra Mayfield
4 minute read
June 23, 2023 | Daily Report Online
Guest or Tenant? Eviction Case Goes All the Way to Georgia Supreme Court and Back"The [Supreme Court of Georgia] said itself, 'the substance of the relationship controls,' and that's what we've been saying all along," said appellee counsel Lindsey Siegel of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
By Cedra Mayfield
6 minute read
June 22, 2023 | Daily Report Online
How We Did It: Lawyers Use Workers' Comp Exemptions to Clinch $2M Settlement"We were ready to keep litigating the case rather than take the limits," said plaintiff counsel Jeb Butler of Butler Kahn in Atlanta. "But we talked with our clients, and they decided that $2 million was a sufficient number for them."
By Cedra Mayfield
5 minute read
June 21, 2023 | Daily Report Online
'Look, You Can Do It': This Georgia Lawyer Just Made History—AgainAfter becoming Georgia's first Latino judge in 2002, J. Antonio "Tony" DelCampo has again made history by becoming the State Bar of Georgia's first Latino president.
By Cedra Mayfield
5 minute read
June 20, 2023 | Daily Report Online
'Our Most Powerful Exhibit': Plaintiff Counsel Leverage Prop to Get $35M Verdict"When the city's witnesses would come in and say things like, 'Hey, we never noticed that thing,' and this huge replica is sitting right there in front of the jury, it's a tough sell," said plaintiff attorney Jeffrey R. Harris of Harris Manton Lowry.
By Cedra Mayfield
6 minute read
June 20, 2023 | Daily Report Online
2023 Attorney of the Year Finalist: Meet Parker Miller of Beasley Allen"When I see the combination of the diversity of the cases and the demands that all of them required that are different, and then the results, it tells me that I've climbed a ladder," said Beasley Allen Atlanta Principal Parker Miller.
By Cedra Mayfield
6 minute read
June 16, 2023 | Daily Report Online
How We Won: 'Sympathy Was Biggest Hurdle to Overcome' in Suit Over Child's Injury"Sympathy is always a significant factor when litigating a case involving injury to a child," said defense counsel Michael G. Frankson of Huff Powell Bailey in Atlanta.
By Cedra Mayfield
6 minute read
June 15, 2023 | Daily Report Online
2 Young Lawyers, 1 Big Victory: Attorneys Secure Med-Mal Verdict"We're young partners in this case, and tried this case by ourselves," said defense attorney Sharonda Boyce Barnes of Huff Powell Bailey in Atlanta. "It was a personal victory for us."
By Cedra Mayfield
6 minute read
June 14, 2023 | Daily Report Online
Judge in the Hot Seat: JQC Moves to Block Effort to Dismiss Ethics ChargesThe defense argued that because "the clear meaning of 'habitual intemperance' is repeated public intoxication not spoken words," the judge's conduct failed to amount to habitual intemperance.
By Cedra Mayfield
5 minute read
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