R. Robin Mcdonald

March 24, 2016 |

The president of the State Bar of Georgia says he intends to recommend that the bar launch a media campaign to defeat a constitutional amendment that would place the state judicial watchdog agency under the control of the General Assembly and could mandate that it operate almost exclusively in secret.

By R. Robin Mcdonald

9 minute read

January 22, 2016 |

The Georgia House Judiciary Committee chairman on Friday introduced a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to abolish the state judicial watchdog agency and create a new one that significantly reduces the influence of the State Bar of Georgia.

By R. Robin Mcdonald

4 minute read

September 05, 2014 |

A federal judge from Alabama will enter a pre-trial diversion program to resolve a misdemeanor battery case against him that involved allegations he hit his wife during a fight at an Atlanta hotel.

By R. Robin Mcdonald and the Associated Press

2 minute read

January 31, 2014 |

U.S. District Senior Judge Charles Pannell Jr. was hearing a jury trial in Atlanta when the snowflakes began to fall on Tuesday morning.

By R. Robin Mcdonald and Kathleen Baydala Joyner

6 minute read

January 30, 2014 |

U.S. District Senior Judge Charles Pannell Jr. was hearing a jury trial in Atlanta when the snowflakes began to fall on Tuesday morning.

By R. Robin Mcdonald

4 minute read

July 09, 2012 |

DeKalb Recorders Court prohibits entry to anyone wearing shorts, tank tops, mini skirts and other informal attire

By R. Robin Mcdonald

7 minute read

March 18, 2003 |

Fulton Superior Court Judge Cynthia D. Wright was shot early Monday morning outside her home in what police called a "domestic" incident.Ten hours later, Marcia Gibson, 50, accompanied by her lawyer Lynne Y. Borsuk of Decatur's Peters, Roberts, Borsuk Rubin, turned herself in to Atlanta police. Gibson faces charges of aggravated assault in connection with Wright's shooting.

By R. Robin Mcdonald, Richmond Eustis and Janet L. Conley

6 minute read

July 21, 2006 |

When Dan Thomas, the clerk of federal court for the Northern District of Georgia, and his staff began documenting the history of the 158-year-old court, he realized he might make a little history himself.

By R. Robin Mcdonald ALM

6 minute read

February 06, 2007 |

In concluding a $400 million racketeering case that seeks to strip accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers of its business license in Georgia, attorneys for the two brothers who sued PwC told jurors that the accounting giant aided a nursing home company in artificially enhancing its company profits as part of "a culture of genteel corporate corruption." But an attorney for PwC and PwC partner Glenn Williams argued before the jury that the brothers were briefed on all of the company's financial problems.

By R. Robin Mcdonald

8 minute read

February 06, 2007 |

In concluding a $400 million racketeering case that seeks to strip accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers of its business license in Georgia, attorneys for the two brothers who sued PwC told jurors that the accounting giant aided a nursing home company in artificially enhancing its company profits as part of "a culture of genteel corporate corruption." But an attorney for PwC and PwC partner Glenn Williams argued before the jury that the brothers were briefed on all of the company's financial problems.

By R. Robin Mcdonald

8 minute read