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  • In the Matter of Daveniya Fisher.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-30
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, James Stephen Lewis, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gene Chapman, (Gene Chapman LLC), Atlanta, for appellee. Herman Maddox Kilgore, (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, Adam Marshall Hames, (The Hames Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S21Y0582

    Public Reprimand Appropriate Discipline For Attorney Who Failed to Appear On Behalf of Client at Civil Forfeiture Hearings

  • In the Matter of L. Nicole Brantley.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-29
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: L. Nicole Brantley, Rincon, for appellee. Herman Maddox Kilgore, (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, Quentin LaMont Marlin, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, for other party.
    Case Number: S21Y0339

    Voluntary Discipline Not Appropriate For Attorney With Extensive Disciplinary History Who Showed Lack of Candor and Remorse

  • In the Matter of George Michael Plumides.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-29
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: George Michael Plumides Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21Y0357

    Disbarment Appropriate Sanction For Attorney Who Engaged in Serious Misconduct And Failed to Respond to Disciplinary Notice

  • In the Matter of Willie George Davis, Jr.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-29
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gene Chapman, (Gene Chapman LLC), Atlanta, for appellee. Herman Maddox Kilgore, (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, Delia T. Crouch, (Law Office of Delia T. Crouch), Newnan, for other party.
    Case Number: S21Y0378

    Indefinitely Long Suspension From Practice Not Allowable And Would Not Serve Disciplinary Purposes

  • In the Matter of Jeffrey Bull Grable.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-12
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, Wolanda R. Shelton, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant: Jeffrey Bull Grable, Marietta, for other party.
    Case Number: S21Y0603

    Voluntary Surrender of License Appropriate Sanction For Attorney Who Admitted to Abandoning Client

  • In the Matter of Patrick A. Powell.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-12
    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: Patrick Anthony Powell, (Patrick Powell & Associates), Dacula, for appellee. Herman Maddox Kilgore, (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, LaVonda Rochelle DeWitt, Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S21Y0468

    Disbarment Was Appropriate Sanction For Attorney Who Intentionally Abandoned Client in Criminal Matter

  • In the Matter of David R. Sicay-Perrow.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-11
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wolanda R. Shelton, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David R. Sicay-Perrow, (Sicay-Perrow & Knighten PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21Y0158

    Attorney's Misappropriation of Trust Funds And General Pattern of Dishonest Conduct Warranted Disbarment

  • In the Matter of Stephen Vincent Fitzgerald, Jr.

    Publication Date: 2021-02-25
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Russell David Willard, Elizabeth T. Young, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Heidi Manroe Faenza, Rebecca S. Mick, (Office of Bar Admissions), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gene Chapman, (Gene Chapman LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21Z0449

    Court grants attorney's application for readmission to the Georgia Bar following his earlier voluntary surrender of his license.

  • In the Matter of William D. Thompson, Jr.

    Publication Date: 2021-02-24
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William deForest Thompson, (William Deforest Thompson Jr. PA), Fort Myers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Wolanda R. Shelton, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21Y0355

    Court rejects attorney's petition for voluntary reciprocal discipline due to multiple deficiencies

  • In Re Spix

    Publication Date: 2021-02-05
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jami Kohn, (Weinstock & Scavo, PC), Atlanta, Mark Spix, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A20A1903

    Court vacates order of contempt against an attorney following summary proceedings and remands case with direction to afford the attorney his due process rights