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June 10, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Media, abortion clinic spar over sealing lawsuit

In a case of first impression involving two hot-button issues-abortion and press freedom-lawyers on Wednesday sparred over whether the general potential for danger stemming from media coverage of legal action against an abortion clinic is sufficient to justify sealing the court proceedings. "There is cause for grave concern for the potential for danger," argued Ashley D.
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April 14, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Amputated patient wins $1.5M med-mal case

Four days after the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously struck down the state's damage caps in medical malpractice cases as unconstitutional, a Coffee County jury awarded Atlanta attorney Laura M. Shamp's client $1.5 million in pain and suffering damages. It was a fortuitous stroke of timing, and a hefty verdict for an already disabled client who then lost a thumb when an IV needle leaked into his tissue.
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July 14, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Lawyers defend fees to panel

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July 15, 2009 | Law.com

Lawyers Defend Fees in 'Theft by Receiving' Case

Fascinating questions of legal ethics stem from the prosecution of two lawyers accused of stealing cash and property from a murder victim's estate by accepting $75,000 from their client, the victim's wife, who pleaded guilty to planning the killing. But arguments at a Georgia appeals court last week centered more on the statute of limitations than on the source of the lawyers' fees and their obligations related to their client's guilt.
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February 27, 2004 | Daily Report Online

Hard-Hitting Campaigner Joins Race for Appeals Court

Jonathan [email protected] N. Mead II, who in 1996 managed a Georgia Court of Appeals campaign that was so hard-hitting it drew a rebuke from the Judicial Qualifications Commission, is now running his own race for the court.Mead, who also served as Gov. Roy E. Barnes' communications director and then top legal adviser, notified the Secretary of State's office on Feb.
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November 21, 2003 | Daily Report Online

Jail Health Care Put on Trial in Case of Strangled Inmate

Meredith HobbsSpecial to the Daily Reportames Edward "Eddie" Eppinger, a bodybuilder addicted to prescription painkillers and an illegal steroid, was sentenced to 14 days in jail for traffic violations on August 21, 2000. Within five days he was dead, accidentally strangled by a deputy trying to move him into an isolation cell.
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January 31, 2006 | Law.com

Bush Names Five to Federal Bench

President Bush last week acted to fill four vacancies on the federal bench. Assistant U.S. Attorney Renee Bumb was named for a seat in Camden, N.J., while U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Wigenton, U.S. Department of Justice official Noel Hillman and Peter Sheridan, the former executive director of the Republican State Committee, were nominated for district court seats in Newark. For the 3rd Circuit, Bush nominated former federal prosecutor Michael Chagares, now with Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard.
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July 10, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

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Short takes on lawyers, firms and judges.
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October 21, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Appeals candidates spar in debate

As the seven candidates for an open appeals court post debated their qualifications Monday, the two lawyers who received the lowest ratings in a recent poll of Georgia lawyers rejected the poll's importance."God help us if the lawyers start electing judges in this state," said Perry J. McGuire, who was deemed "not qualified" for the Court of Appeals by 446 lawyers who voted in the Georgia Bar's recent poll of its members.
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October 25, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Gwinnett lawyer in state Senate race challenges on ethics

Scott Drake, who was a prosecutor before joining the criminal defense bar 13 years ago, never saw himself as a politician.
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