R. Robin Mcdonald

January 26, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Members of the Georgia House of Representatives on Wednesday introduced a bill that would, for the second time in a year, dramatically reconfigure the state Judicial Qualifications Commission — expanding its membership and splitting it into two panels: one to investigate judicial ethical infractions and a second to adjudicate them.

By R. Robin McDonald

8 minute read

January 19, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The Speaker of Georgia's House of Representatives has reappointed Richard Hyde, the state Judicial Qualifications Commission's former longtime investigator, to continue serving as a commissioner on the newly-constituted agency now under the Legislature's control.

By R. Robin McDonald

9 minute read

January 17, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The State Bar of Georgia's board of governors unanimously approved a list of 11 bar members to recommend to state legislators as candidates for two open seats reserved for attorneys on the newly minted state judicial watchdog agency.

By R. Robin McDonald

8 minute read

January 12, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The new chairman of the state Judicial Qualifications Commission says he is urging a respected former chairman of the agency to become its new director.

By R. Robin McDonald

12 minute read

January 11, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Fulton County Sheriff Theodore "Ted" Jackson says that he has worked closely with Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, and that President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney general, is no racist.

By R. Robin McDonald

14 minute read

January 11, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed Athens attorney Edward Tolley as the new chairman–and the governor's sole appointee–to the Judicial Qualifications Commission, the state's judicial watchdog.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

January 09, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The six-man committee advising Georgia's U.S. senators on nominations for three open federal judgeships in Georgia has begun interviewing candidates for two open seats in the state's Northern District, including one that did not open up until Dec. 29—one day before the committee's application deadline.

By R. Robin McDonald

8 minute read

January 06, 2017 | Daily Report Online

In 2012, the longtime judge was interviewed by his son, King & Spalding partner Paul Murphy in this republished version of the judge as a lawyer with aspirations.

By R. Robin McDonald

25 minute read

January 06, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Attorneys due in court in metro Atlanta should take particular note.

By Greg Land and R. Robin McDonald

2 minute read

January 05, 2017 | Daily Report Online

One of Gov. Nathan Deal's two appointees to the state Judicial Qualifications Commission has resigned as the judicial watchdog agency morphs from one that is constitutionally independent to a new, reconfigured agency under the purview of the General Assembly.

By R. Robin McDonald

9 minute read