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  • In the Matter of Sarah Mallas Wayman.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-16
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dana Paul Shaffner, (Shaffner Law Office PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20Y0289

    Volunteer Surrender of License to Practice Accepted For Attorney Who Could Not Account For Funds Received on Behalf of Client

  • Cobb Hospital, Inc. d/b/a Wellstar Cobb Hospital et al. v. Department of Community Health et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-16
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Armando Luis Basarrate, David Boone Darden, Elizabeth M. Kitchens, (Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs, LLP), Atlanta, Robert D. Ingram, David Patrick Conley, (Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, LLP), Marietta, appellant.
    for defendant: Isaac Byrd, Daniel Stephen Walsh, Forrest Geoffrey Pearce, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Roxana Dehnad Tatman, Rachel L King, (Georgia Department of Community Health), Atlanta, Frank Berry, (Department of Community), Atlanta, Robert Charles Threlkeld, Elliott Leigh Coward, (Morris Manning & Martin, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19G1007

    Hospital entity had properly preserved its constitutional challenge to an administrative body's ruling by raising it during the administrative proceedings

  • In the Matter of Scott D. Bennett.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-15
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andreea N. Morrison, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott D. Bennett, (Bennett Law, PC), Doraville, for appellee. 
    Case Number: S19Y0831

    Attorney's Perfunctory Response to Notice of Serious Discipline Offenses Failed to Address Accusatory Allegations

  • In the Matter of Natasha Simone White.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-07
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jess Brandel Johnson, Page Anthony Pate, (Pate & Johnson, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20Y0335

    Voluntary Surrender of License Acceptable Sanction Following Attorney's Guilty Plea to Felony Charge

  • In the Matter of Carla Burton Gaines.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-07
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jenny K. Mittelman, Paula J. Frederick, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carla Burton Gaines, (Law Firm of Gaines and Associates PC), Atlanta, for appellee. Herman Maddox Kilgore, (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, Trishanda L. Treadwell, (Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S19Y1471

    Disbarment Appropriate Sanction For Attorney Who Stole Money, Acted Dishonestly, and Defaulted in Disciplinary Proceeding

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  • In the Matter of Millard C. Farmer, Jr.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-02
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Millard C. Farmer, Jr., Atlanta, for appellee. Patrick H. Head, Marietta, Herman Maddox Kilgore, (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, for other party.
    Case Number: S19Y1156

    Disbarment Is an Appropriate Sanction for Lawyer Who Has a Pattern of Misconduct and Failure to Satisfy Judgment in Civil RICO Case

  • The State v. Shaw

    Publication Date: 2019-12-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donna Stribling, William Kemp, (Dekalb County Solicitor General's Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leonard Franco, (Furlong & Franco), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1655

    Evidence from a traffic stop was suppressed where the officer who conducted the stop had no reasonable articulable justification for that stop.

  • In the Matter of Joel S. Wadsworth.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-30
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paula J. Frederick, William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joel S. Wadsworth, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19Y1329

    Disbarment Not Appropriate Sanction Absent Serious and Specific Supporting Allegations of Misconduct

  • In the Matter of Nevada Michael Tuggle.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-27
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas Vincent Chandler, (Chandler Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, Andreea N. Morrison, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19Y1553

    Attorney's Failure to Acknowledge and Accept Responsibility For Losses Caused By His Misconduct Precluded Voluntary Discipline

  • In the Matter of William Leslie Kirby III.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-27
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andreea N. Morrison, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Leslie Kirby, III, Columbus, for appellee. Herman Maddox Kilgore, (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, James Charles Thornton, (Thornton & Graham PC), LaGrange, for other party.
    Case Number: S20Y0079

    Thirty-Day Suspension Not Adequate Sanction For Misconduct in Four Separate Matters