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March 30, 2016 | Daily Report Online

A Florida woman's action against a law firm alleging use of an unlawful collection notice under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act may proceed, a federal appellate court has held.

By Kristen Rasmussen | Special to the Daily Report

11 minute read

March 22, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Just as a well-drafted demand letter can create progress toward resolution, an effective response letter can move the dispute closer to a successful resolution.

By Chad Shultz | Special to the Daily Report

9 minute read

March 15, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Since 2013, the University of Alabama has been embroiled in litigation attempting to vacate a loss from its record book. But this loss was in litigation.

By Joel Feldman | Special to the Daily Report

6 minute read

March 08, 2016 | Daily Report Online

The state of Georgia has done a great deal in recent years to make the juvenile system more humane and more effective, but that work is incomplete until we stop putting high school students in adult jails for making childish mistakes.

By Jason Esteves | Special to the Daily Report

8 minute read

March 07, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Joel M. Feldman, a United States magistrate judge from 1974 until his retirement in 2006, died on Feb. 27.

By Gerrilyn Brill | Special to the Daily Report

4 minute read

March 01, 2016 | Daily Report Online

It is not often that a practicing attorney writes an article criticizing a state Supreme Court decision. However, because I have devoted well over four decades to representing small business borrowers and guarantors against banks and other lenders, it seems to me that I have a duty to my fellow practitioners to discuss the Georgia Supreme Court's very disappointing and hurtful opinion in PNC Bank N.A. v. Smith, 2016 WL 690406.

By Gus H. Small | Special to the Daily Report

6 minute read

February 23, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Your task is to prepare a demand letter. You have talked to your client, done some research and are ready to compose. Many lawyers, pressed for time, revise a form letter or use one written in a similar case as a template.

By Lee Parks | Special to the Daily Report

5 minute read

February 22, 2016 | Daily Report Online

House Bill 1017 is legislation sponsored by the State Bar of Georgia that will formalize the process for discovery of electronically stored information in civil cases around the state.

By Leslie J. Bryan | Special to the Daily Report

11 minute read

February 22, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Scott Wandstrat and Alison Grounds decide to interview each other about a bill which, if passed, would change the way that every civil matter in this state would be litigated.

By Alison Grounds and Scott Wandstrat / Special to the Daily Report

12 minute read

February 05, 2016 | Daily Report Online

By Frank J. Vandall | Special to the Daily Report

7 minute read