Cedra Mayfield

January 23, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"When the duty to disclose is the gravamen of the cause of action, then that same duty to disclose that tolls the statute of limitations also can be the basis for the cause of action," argued appellant attorney Donald R. Andersen of Skinner Law Group.

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

January 20, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"I was a judge for 11 years, and in those 11 years 90% of the med-mals resulted in defense verdicts," said plaintiff attorney Dax Lopez of DelCampo Grayson Lopez. "That is not unusual, and I think we sort of lose sight of that."

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

January 19, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"Jurors have really good BS detectors," said civil defense litigator Michael L. Bell. "We just have to be able to come forward with credible, direct information, because they just won't stand for it if they feel like they're being manipulated."

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

January 18, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Associate Juvenile Court Judges Phillip Jackson and Coy J. Johnson Jr. and Deputy Assistant Solicitor General T. Natasha Crawford have been appointed to presiding judgeships on the Fulton County Juvenile Court bench.

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

January 17, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"The chance to join a firm the caliber of Robbins Alloy Belinfante and Littlefield LLC doesn't come around very often," said former Judicial Qualifications Commission of Georgia Director Chuck Boring.

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

January 13, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"We have applied this well-established rule in situations where the suggestion of a defendant's death was filed with the court by the defendant's counsel but the record did not reflect that it was served upon the nonparty representative of the defendant's estate," read the Georgia Court of Appeals reversal.

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

January 12, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The DeKalb County Superior Court has postponed all in-person trials through at least April 3 after a ruptured pipe caused extensive water damage to its Judicial Tower.

By Cedra Mayfield

3 minute read

January 11, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Cobb Judicial Circuit jurists have selected two leaders to serve the next two years as the circuit's chief and vice chief judges.

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

January 10, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The Judicial Qualifications Commission of Georgia has dismissed 30 formal ethics charges, following the judge's death on Jan. 1.

By Cedra Mayfield

3 minute read

January 09, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"The panel's unanimous recommendation is removal from office pursuant to JQC Rule 6(B)(1)," read the Judicial Qualifications Commission of Georgia's recommendation to the state Supreme Court.

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read