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  • Alston & Bird, LLP v. Hatcher Management Holdings, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-06-24
    Practice Area: Damages | Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A20A0217

    Court affirms legal malpractice verdict, reverses award of prejudgment interest, and reverses erroneous reduction in award

  • Alston Bird LLP v. Hatcher Management Holdings LLC

    Publication Date: 2016-04-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason Alloy, Joshua Belinfante, Rachel Gage, and Richard Robbins Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harmon Caldwell, Harry MacDougald, and Jeremy Moeser Caldwell Watson LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A15A1677

    The trial court erred in striking the defendant law firm's apportionment notice in a suit for legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary

  • Lewis v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-11-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Adams, Bernard Taylor, Kacy M. Brake, and Michael Brown Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert James, District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, and Kellie Hill, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A1320

    The trial court erred in imposing a sentence that differed from the understood terms of the defendant's negotiated

  • Synovus Bank v. Griner

    Publication Date: 2013-04-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Collins Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Michael Terry, Mary Webb Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, James Finley Finley & Buckley, Atlanta, Gerald Davidson Mahaffey Pickens Tucker LLP, Lawrenceville, and C. Ronald Ellington, Athens, for appellees. Amicus: William Custer Bryan Cave LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A12A1822

    The question of whether the overdraft and overdraft protection fees at issue constituted interest under Georgia law could not be determined at the pleadings stage, given the broad definitions of int

  • Moses v. Pennebaker

    Publication Date: 2011-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen M. Katz The Katz Law Group, Marietta, for appellants. Jay D. Bennett, Nowell D. Berreth, and Daniel C. Norris Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A11A0839

    Evidence that one member took control of LLC, managed it unilaterally and without authority, and set up a competing company, supported trial court's award of damages to LLC's other member on his cl

  • Alston & Bird LLP v. Mellon Ventures II LP

    Publication Date: 2010-12-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Curvin and Amy K. Averill Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, and Edward D. Tolley, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Edwin J. Schklar, J. James Johnson, William B. Ney, Magdalena M. Heim and Michael R. Peacock Schklar, Ney & Heim LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A10A1563

    The trial court properly denied appellants' motion for summary judgment because the arguments therein hinged primarily on the depositions and affidavit of a manager whose credibility appellees vigor

  • Porex Corp. v. Haldopolous

    Publication Date: 2007-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin J. Elgison, John E. Stephenson Jr. and David S. Givelber Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Emmet J. Bondurant, Edward B. Krugman, Ronan P. Doherty Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: William H. Kitchens Arnall, Golden & Gregory, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A06A1650

    A plaintiff's mere suspicion of defendant's alleged misappropriation more than 5 years prior to a claim, did not time bar plaintiff's misappropriation of trade secrets claim as a matter o

  • Gold Kist Inc. v. Moody

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay D. Bennett, Richard R. Hays and Kenneth D. Steele Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas L. Gibson Gibson & Spivey, Waycross, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1225

    The trial court could not presume that a prior judge followed the law of the case on remand where that judge failed to do so on remand from a prior a

  • Kmart Corp v. Merriweather

    Publication Date: 2002-03-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Grant, Nowell D. Berreth and Jeffrey J. Swart Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John B. Levy and Michael Weinstock Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A2298

    The Court could not consider defendants' challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence because they failed to include all of the evidence presented at trial in the appellate r

  • Gold Kist Inc. v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2000-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay D. Bennett, Richard R. Hays and Kenneth D. Steele Alston & Bird, Atlanta for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas L. Gibson Gibson & Spivey, Waycross, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1254

    The trial court exceeded its scope of authority on remand when it reaffirmed its prior awards to the plaintiffs based on different theories of liab