Cedra Mayfield

January 30, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The judge "hopes and believes the Supreme Court will look carefully at the record and the law and reach a different conclusion," defense counsel said in a statement released Monday.

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

January 27, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"They will be asked to discuss their reflections on why they went to law school, why they chose to attend an HBCU law school and why they selected the specific school they attended," said filmmaker and attorney Evangeline M. Mitchell.

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

January 26, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"Each subcategory of the statute is followed by 'and,' so the employer has to post the panel prominently and must take all reasonable steps to ensure that the employee understands their rights, argued appellant attorney Sergio Camilo-Steven Ardila-Ibarra before the Georgia Court of Appeals.

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

January 25, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"Appellants are entitled to file only a single reply brief," Georgia Court of Appeals administrators tweeted. "Parties may file a motion for additional words or for an extension of time to file a brief."

By Cedra Mayfield

2 minute read

January 24, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"In certain actions against the state, sovereign immunity is waived," argued Solicitor General Stephen J. Petrany. "Those actions have to be brought exclusively against the state, and that's not what happened here."

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

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