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Cops Can't Record Jailed Juvenile, Georgia Court Rules
A Georgia judge ruled a police department cannot record the conversations of an incarcerated juvenile. Murder suspect Heath Meehan allegedly made incriminating statements in phone calls from jail. Meehan's attorney argued that taping the conversations violated his client's privacy rights. This is the first time a taping was challenged in the state because it involved a juvenile pre-trial detainee.Fight Over Legal Bill Auditing Comes to Quiet End
In a quiet end to a bitter fight, some of the country's biggest insurance carriers have stopped sending their lawyers' bills out to be picked over and whittled down by third-party auditors. "They're finding that the use of outside auditors was disastrous to their relationship with outside counsel," says Michael F. Aylward, of Boston's Morrison Mahoney & Miller.View more book results for the query "*"
Lawyers should avoid making large campaign contributions to judges before whom they may appear
I am a lawyer and if I know I am going to have cases before a particular court or judge, is it ethical for me, during the judicial race for that position and, even more so, during the retention races, to give substantial campaign contributions to judicial candidates?Brandon Farms Property Owners Association, Inc. v. Brandon Farms Condominium Association, Inc.
Under the Condominium Act, a builder or developer may not make a condominium association responsible for an individual association member's failure to pay assessments owed to an umbrella organization; thus, the clause in the Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions here, making the Condominium Association responsible for paying the full assessment due the Property Owners Association from its individual members regardless of whether they pay the Condominium Association, is void.Plain Language Controls In Joint Tortfeasor Release
Reversing a trial court decision that lawyers say threatened to upset the practice of partial settlement, the Superior Court has re-established the plaintiff's right to enter into a joint tortfeasor release and settle with some defendants but not others wTrending Stories
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