A NORTH GEORGIA REAL ESTATE lawyer’s fear that she would lose a valuable title examiner to a competitor has led to charges that the attorney forged a non-compete agreement, accusations of prosecutorial misconduct and the threat of perjury charges against former DeKalb County district attorney J. Tom Morgan III.
The heated case began in July 2005 when Ellijay attorney Brett Jones Thompson learned that her title examiner, Cheryl VanLandingham, was going to work for another attorney. Title examiners are valuable employees for attorneys in the booming North Georgia vacation home market because they carry institutional knowledge of “back chains,” or chains of title for property.
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