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  • In re Wilkinson

    Publication Date: 2001-03-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and K. Gene Chapman State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Robert A. Wilkinson, Chamblee. Althea L. Buafo, Chairperson Review Panel, Macon.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01Y0727

    Attorney who received fees from misrepresenting the filing of his client's immigration applications and commingling their fees with his personal funds was disbarred for violating Standards 4, 44 and

  • In re Burton

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and K. Gene Chapman State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Dawn D. Ballard Head, Thomas, Webb & Willis, Atlanta. Althea L. Buafo, Chairperson Review Panel, Macon. David Dunaway Adams, Barfield, Dunaway & Hankinson,Thomaston.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S00Y1568

    Attorney who admittedly abandoned his criminal client's case is suspended for 36 months with conditions on reinstat

  • In re Roberson

    Publication Date: 2001-02-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and Jonathan W. Hewett State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. David Roberson Roberson & Schmidt, Savannah. Althea Buafo, Chairperson Review Panel, Macon.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S00Y1748; S00Y1941

    Attorney disbarred for unprofessional conduct involving his attempt to justify $2.4 million in attorneys' fees by exaggerating the gross settlement in a case involving a comatose

  • In re Woodall

    Publication Date: 2001-02-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and Jonathan W. Hewett State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Sam P. Inglesby Jr. Inglesby, Falligant, Horne, Courington & Nash, Savannah. Althea L. Buafo, Chairperson Review Panel, Macon.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S00Y1937

    Attorney is disbarred for his unprofessional conduct in attempting to justify his portion of a $2.4 million fee by exaggerating the gross settlement in a case involving a 34-year-old comatose

  • In re Quinlan

    Publication Date: 2001-02-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and E. Duane Cooper, Assistant General Counsel State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. James W. Quinlan, Cumming. W. O'Neal Dettmering Jr. Howe & Dettmering, Douglasville. Althea L. Buafo, Chairperson Review Panel, Macon.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01Y0127; S01Y0425

    Attorney suspended for three years after he tried to avoid liability for his failure to file a bankruptcy petition on his client's b

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  • In re Zoota

    Publication Date: 2001-02-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and K. Gene Chapman State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Herbert A. Zoota, Duluth. Althea L. Buafo, Chairperson Review Panel, Macon. Barry P. Bettis Boling, Rice, Bettis, Bagley & Martin, Cumming.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01Y0187

    Attorney disbarred for failing to take any action on his client's slip and fall case after she rejected an initial settlement

  • State v. Colack a/k/a Culack

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald N. Blaney Jr., Solicitor General, Emilien O. Loiselle Jr. and Jeffrey P. Kwiatkowski, Assistant Solicitors, for appellant.
    for defendant: David S. Lipscomb, Duluth, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1898

    Grant of habeas relief to resident alien affirmed without op

  • S & A Indus. Inc. v. Bank Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2001-01-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry J. White and Laurence H. Margolis Smith, White, Sharma & Halpern, Atlanta, for S & A Industries Inc. John A. Christy and Timothy C. Batten Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint, Atlanta, for Bank Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A00A1398; A00A1399

    A jury issue remained as to whether the defendant's president had authority to withdraw funds on the corporation's line-of-credit for his persona

  • In re Adams

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harlan S. Miller III Parks, Chesin & Miller PC, Atlanta, Hollie G. Manheimer and E. Stephanie Stuckey Stuckey & Manheimer LLC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathryn L. Allen, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Rebecca S. Mick, Assistant Attorney General, and Hulett H. Askew, Director Officer of Bar Admissions, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0577

    Bar applicant who secured a military discharge by falsely stating under oath that he was a homosexual was denied certification of fitness to practic

  • In re McGee

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and Jenny K. Mittelman State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Paul McGee, Atlanta. David P. Darden Talley & Darden PC, Marietta. Althea Buafo, Chairperson Review Panel, Macon.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01Y0052

    Attorney disbarred for failing to take action on his criminal client's behalf and not returning the client's unearned fee in violation of Standards 44 and 68 of Bar Rule 4-