• Williams v. Cooper

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rita T. Williams Williams & Assocs., Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert J. Hunter Hunter, Weinstein & Somerstein LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S05A1949

    Attorneys' fees against one party's counsel in a domestic relations case could not stand because the attorney was not given an adequate hearing on the subject of the fees aw

  • Nicely v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-01-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dexter M. Wimbish, College Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: Norman S. Gunter, District Attorney, Dahlonega, and Kerry I. Banister, Assistant District Attorney, Cleveland, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A0263

    The defendant's request to discharge his court-appointed attorney just days before his trial was merely a dilatory t

  • Marks v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teddy R. Price, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, and Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: S05A1729

    The defendant had no First Amendment right to hold himself out as an attorney, when he was unqualified to practic

  • City of Atlanta v. Southern States Police Benevolent Assoc. of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2005-12-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry D. Fellows Jr. and Laurie E. Dugoniths Fellows, Johnson & La Briola LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Norman J. Slawsky Jacobs & Slawsky, Mary C. Cooney, Atlanta, and Grady K. Dukes, McDonough, for appellees.

    Case Number: A05A1131

    The boards of three city of Atlanta defined benefit pension plans have the authority to hire a third party administrator to handle the administration of the pension benefits and to obtain advice fro

  • Joseph H. King Jr. PC v. Lessinger

    Publication Date: 2005-11-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Louis R. Feingold Northcutt, Edwards & Feingold and Joseph H. King Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Y. Kevin Williams, Stephen R. Kane and Allison M. Richardson Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A1255

    When a attorney is discharged before the contingency in a contingency fee contract occurs, the discharged attorney is limited to pursuing the equitable remedy of quantum meruit against his c

  • Joseph H. King Jr. PC v. Lessinger

    Publication Date: 2005-10-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Louis R. Feingold Northcutt, Edwards & Feingold and Joseph H. King Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Y. Kevin Williams, Stephen R. Kane and Allison M. Richardson Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A1255

    When a attorney is discharged before the contingency in a contingency fee contract occurs, the discharged attorney is limited to pursuing the equitable remedy of quantum meruit against his c

  • Oswell v. Nixon

    Publication Date: 2005-09-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Wise, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edward H. Wasmuth Jr. Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A1410

    Georgia law does not recognize a private cause of action for the alleged unauthorized practice o

  • Bhindi Bros. v. Patel

    Publication Date: 2005-09-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Grover C. Bailey, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles A. Ratz and Andrea Bennett Gilliland, Ratz & Browning PC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A0996

    Res judicata did not bar the plaintiff's claims for past due rent and other damages in its suit for breach of a lease, because the plaintiff raised those claims in its prior dispossessory suit and t

  • SRM Realty Servs. Group LLC v. Capital Flooring Enters. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-07-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry C. Oldham and Brent S. Reece, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen C. Whicker, Woodstock, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A0099; A05A0100

    The plaintiff's suit seeking to recover an $11,272.57 cash bond automatically slipped into de when the defendant failed to file a timely answer or seek relief from the de

  • Clough v. Richelo

    Publication Date: 2005-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Rosenthal Wagner, Johnston & Rosenthal and Angelo T. Merolla, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Johannes S. Kingma and Eric F. Barton Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A05A0181

    State Bar Rule 3.7 does not preclude a lawyer from representing a client prior to even if the lawyer is likely to be a necessary witness at the