The Georgia Supreme Court’s two most senior justices took exception to their colleagues’ decision to allow a lawyer found to have violated several bar rules and mishandled hundreds of thousands of dollars in his former firm’s trust fund to only face a public reprimand.

Presiding Justice David Nahmias—who penned the dissent, with Chief Justice Harold Melton’s concurrence—noted that the special master overseeing the case had recommended a one-year suspension for Edward Shuff Cook, while the State Bar of Georgia’s Disciplinary Review Committee proposed two-years; the bar itself recommended a three-year suspension. 

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