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  • January 7, 2021 | Legaltech News

    Legal Tech's Predictions for Business of Law and ALSPs in 2021

    Many attorneys, technologists and legal experts expect continued change in the legal ecosystem in 2021. But it's not just alternative legal service providers—it's how law firms and corporate legal departments fundamentally interact with their data, their people, and even each other.

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  • Rice et al. v. Fulton County, Georgia et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-01-06
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Real Estate | Tax
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchell Graham, (G. Roger Land & Associates), Atlanta, G. Land, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Jonathan Palmer, (Knight Palmer, LLC), Atlanta, Ranse Partin, (Conley Griggs Partin LLP), Atlanta, Lindsey Hillis, Delia Williams-Carroll, (The Hillis Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Colin Delaney, Anthony Rollins, Edward Wasmuth, Leah Sears, Robin Burnette, (Smith Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, Detriss Thomas, Cheryl Ringer, Patrise Perkins-Hooker, Kaye Burwell, (Fulton County Office of the County Attorney), Atlanta, Jeffrey Haymore, (Dillard Sellers, LLC), Atlanta, Anamaria Hazard, Reginald Martin, (City of Atlanta, Law Department), Atlanta, C. Thomas, Michael Stacy, (Bovis, Kyle, Burch & Medlin, LLC), Atlanta, Ken Jarrard, Gregory Meyer, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, Patrick Stough, E. Cox, Dennis Davenport, (McNally, Fox, Grant & Davenport, P.C.), Fayetteville, Richard Lindsey, (Lindsey Law Firm PC), Peachtree City, Winston Denmark, (Fincher Denmark LLC), Jonesboro, Emilia Walker, (Fincher Denmark LLC), Atlanta, John O'Neal, (Clayton County Boad of Commisioners), Jonesboro, Valorri Jones, (Fincher Denmark LLC), Jonesboro, Christa Freeman, (City of Atlanta Department of Law), Atlanta, Michael Huening, (Fincher Denmark LLC), Atlanta, Meredith Germain, (Turner Ross Germain, LLC), Marietta, William Turner, (Turner & Ross, LLC), Marietta, Daniel Lee, (Attorney For The City of Sandy Springs), Sandy Springs, Matthew Weiss, (Freeman Mathis & Gary), Atlanta, Brad Bowman, Decatur, Chad Alexis, (Dekalb County Law Department), Decatur, Ernest Bennett, (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, Richard Carothers, (Attorney at Law), Buford, David Davidson, Robert Hulsey, (Attorney at Law), Roswell, Lajuana Ransaw, Andrew Welch, Priya Patel, (Smith Welch Webb & White, LLC), McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1898

    Taxpayers Stated Class Action Claim Under Tax Refund Statute For Allegedly Illegal Assessments

  • Appellate Division, Second Department:December 30, 2020

    Publication Date: 2021-01-05
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Handdown List released on: December 30, 2020
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appellate Division, Second Department:December 30, 2020

  • Endeavor Energy v. Energen Resources

    Publication Date: 2021-01-04
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contracts | Energy and Natural Resources
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blacklock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-1187

    The lease at issue allowed petitioner Endeavor to retain its leasehold interest in the entire parcel only by drilling a new well every 150 days, except that petitioner was allowed to "accumulate unused days in an 150-day term in order to extend the next allowed 150-day term between the completion of one well and the drilling of a subsequent well."

  • Oneida Indian Nation v. Phillips

    Publication Date: 2020-12-31
    Practice Area: Native American Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Counter Defendant-Appellee, Oneida Indian Nation: David A. Reiser, on the brief, Michael R. Smith, Washington, DC.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Counter Claimants-Appellants, Melvin L. Phillips, Sr. and the Melvin L. Phillips, Sr./Orchard Party Trust: Claudia L. Tenney, Clinton, NY on the brief, Joseph R. Membrino, Cooperstown, NY.
    Case Number: 19-2737-cv

    Oneida Indian Nation Has Tribal Right to Possession of 19.6 Acres in Oneida County

  • Appellate Division, First Department:December 22, 2020

    Publication Date: 2020-12-28
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department, Appeals & Motions
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appellate Division, First Department:December 22, 2020

  • Olson v. Brenntag North Am. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-12-24
    Practice Area: Damages
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Gerald Lebovits
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs: Jerome H. Block, Renner K. Walker, and Alexandria Awad of counsel, Levy Konigsberg, LLP, New York, NY, Christian Hartley, Suzanne M. Ratcliffe, and Margaret Samadi of counsel, and Maune Raichle Hartley French & Mudd, LLC, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendants Johnson & Johnson and Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc.: John D. Winter, Jonah M. Knobler, and Thomas P. Kurland of counsel, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, New York, NY, Robert "Mike" Brock of counsel, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC.
    Case Number: 190328/2017

    Damages Awarded in Johnson & Johnson Asbestos-Related Tort Action Were Excessive

  • Day v. Mason

    Publication Date: 2020-12-23
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A20A0964

    Court vacates and remands an award for past child support, reverses as to other expenses, affirms as to some fees, and reverses separate award for appellate attorney fees

  • Thornton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jad Baskin Johnson, David James Dunn, Jr., Victor Philip Aloisio, III, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office), Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Megan Sandra Deitz, A.D.A., Christopher Allen Arnt, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaFayette, for appellee. Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S20G0613

    Game Warden Was Authorized to Limit Sound Emitted by Car Stereo; Evidence at Trial Was Sufficient to Sustain Convictions for Obstruction

  • December 21, 2020 | Litigation Daily

    Did Boies Schiller Represent Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes or Not?

    The Theranos fraud case is the latest to attempt to untangle the blurred lines of attorney-client privilege in white-collar investigations.

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