The Georgia Supreme Court has turned aside an appeal from a woman whose efforts to enforce a State Bar of Georgia arbitration award of nearly $400,000 against her former lawyer have repeatedly been unsuccessful in lower courts.
The unanimous April 18 order lets stand a November Court of Appeals ruling that Ilene Farley’s arbitration award-almost one-quarter of a $2 million settlement resolving her federal whistleblower suit-is not subject to the courts’ enforcement authority, since her former attorney, Michael Bothwell, never consented to be bound by the arbitration. Bothwell retained the remainder of the $2 million settlement.
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