R. Robin Mcdonald

August 22, 2017 | Daily Report Online

When two lawyers asked how to secure video evidence of an alleged workplace sexual encounter between the CEO of Waffle House and his housekeeper, a pair of Atlanta-area investigators balked at the suggestion. The tape that was made has since spawned a media sensation and litigation over the legitimacy of surveillance.

By R. Robin McDonald

12 minute read

August 18, 2017 | Daily Business Review

The SEC charges fraud organizers put some money aside to buy oil-drilling operations to make their high-earning scam appear real.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

August 17, 2017 | Daily Report Online

For 20 years, Judge Frank Hull has served in a courthouse named for Elbert P. Tuttle, for whom Hull once clerked and whom she has called her greatest influence in the law.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

August 15, 2017 | Daily Report Online

For four years, salesmen in Tennessee and Florida boiler rooms sold prospective investors on what they claimed were oil and natural gas projects "tailored for the conservator investor," guaranteeing them 15-55 percent "safe and consistent" annual returns that would "last for decades."

By R. Robin McDonald

8 minute read

August 14, 2017 | Daily Report Online

That unanswered question permeated Monday's oral arguments before the Georgia Supreme Court.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

August 14, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Attorney Stephen Reba found the memo amid a sheaf of loose papers in one of 10 banker boxes left over from the 2007 murder trial of a coastal Georgia physician: an itemized list of recommendations as to who should sit, and not sit, on Dr. Noel Chua's jury.

By R. ROBIN MCDONALD

8 minute read

August 11, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Attorney Stephen Reba found the memo amid a sheaf of loose papers in one of 10 banker boxes left over from the 2007 murder trial of a coastal Georgia physician.

By R. Robin McDonald

8 minute read

August 09, 2017 | Daily Report Online

When Atlanta attorney Ranse Partin sued the U.S. Civil Air Patrol on behalf of the widow of a physician killed in a 2014 plane crash that also took the lives of two of his companions, he decided to learn to fly.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

August 07, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Fed up with what it viewed as empty promises to make good on an outstanding loan, JP Morgan Chase has asked a federal judge to ground a $12 million private jet until the commercial real estate developer who owns it settles up.

By R. Robin McDonald

3 minute read

August 04, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Wells Fargo & Co. has agreed to settle a 12-year-old whistleblower case accusing the bank of cheating veterans by charging them illegal fees when refinancing their home loans.

By R. Robin McDonald

3 minute read