When I was interviewed for your May 17 story, “Lawyer accuses opponent of lying to justice over case,” one of my first comments was this “is pretty sad.” The same comment could be made of the Daily Report’s decision to even run the story.
Unfortunately, it is hardly newsworthy when one lawyer accuses another of misrepresenting facts or the law. Apparently, the Daily Report found this particular event to be newsworthy because last year I, together with lawyers from Hunton & Williams, obtained a $430,000 sanctions order against my opposing counsel, the lawyer who accuses me of “lying.” In the sanctions order entered against him, Judge Michael D. Johnson referred my opposing counsel to the State Bar of Georgia for possible disciplinary action, noting that his conduct in the case was “unethical, particularly unbecoming of an officer of the Court, and possibly illegal.” This tidbit of information, which one might expect to have triggered some journalistic instinct against participating in the vendetta that followed, appears to have had little effect on the Daily Report.
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