R. Robin Mcdonald

May 12, 2016 | Daily Report Online

An Atlanta investment advisory firm under investigation by federal authorities for its work on behalf of a number of Georgia-based public pension plans is suing a New York law firm for $12 million over claims of legal malpractice.

By R. Robin McDonald

17 minute read

May 10, 2016 | Daily Report Online

In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, a Roswell videographer arrested while recording a political rally two years ago says that law enforcement officers who ejected her from the rally and then jailed her "used excessive force, unconstitutional arrest and, ultimately, bogus criminal charges to silence a citizen journalist."

By R. Robin McDonald

6 minute read

May 10, 2016 | Daily Report Online

A racketeering suit by a former federal prosecutor against international gun mogul Gaston Glock, two of Glock's Georgia companies and three of Glock's attorneys has cleared a key hurdle.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

May 05, 2016 | Daily Report Online

When Marcus Tavon Brown was shot in DeKalb County on Oct. 2, 2012, he told DeKalb police the name of the man who had shot him.

By R. Robin McDonald

7 minute read

May 04, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Norcross immigration attorney Bonnie Youn told a federal judge on Tuesday that she pleaded guilty to illegally helping a client circumvent federal immigration laws because she feared a jury trial amid "the current anti-immigrant political climate in a presidential election year."

By R. Robin McDonald

9 minute read

May 03, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Calling federal prosecutors' resolution of the criminal case against a Norcross immigration attorney "reasonable and generous," U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg, above, on Tuesday sentenced Bonnie Youn, 46, to two years probation and ordered her to pay a $5,245 fine.

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

May 03, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Settlements of suits stemming from a tractor-trailer crash that killed five nursing students and injured two others will add up to nearly $80 million, said an Atlanta attorney for the latest family to come to terms with the Mississippi firm that owned the truck.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

May 02, 2016 | Daily Report Online

A former vice president of construction company Heery International says that, when she was terminated in 2013, the company's chief financial officer told her, "It's slash-and-burn time, baby, and your job has been eliminated."

By R. Robin McDonald

2 minute read

April 28, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Seven former professional football players who sued the National Football League in groundbreaking litigation over traumatic brain injuries are now suing their former lawyers, including two Georgia firms, over liens placed on the players' individual cuts of the $1 billion settlement, according to a Daily Report affiliate, The Legal Intelligencer in Philadelphia.

By R. Robin McDonald

3 minute read

April 27, 2016 | Law.com

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has secured $15 million from a California-based furniture chain to resolve claims that it improperly evaded anti-dumping duties on wooden bedroom furniture imported from China.

By R. Robin McDonald

7 minute read