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  • Blackwell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-02-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Hines
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary Wilson Jones, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Michael Scott Carlson, John Richard Edwards, D. Victor Reynolds, Theresa Marie Schiefer (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1928

    Defendant failed to prove his ineffective assistance of counsel claims following his murder conviction.

  • Caffrey v. North Arrow Abstract & Settlement Servs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-02-22
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department
    Judge: Justice Mark Dillon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For respondent: Allyn J. Crawford of counsel, Crawford, Bringslid, Vander, Neut, LLP, Staten Island, NY.
    for defendant: For appellant: Michael A. Coscia of counsel, Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrera & Wolf, LLP, Brooklyn, NY.
    Case Number: 2015-06114

    Case Can Be Retransferred From Lower Court but That Court's Judgment Cannot Be Substituted

  • Green v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-02-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Davis Smith (Conger & Smith, LLC), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien (Department of Law), Atlanta; Clifford Paul Bowden (Tifton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1872

    Defendant failed to prove his ineffective assistance of counsel claims following his conviction as a party to the crime of malice murder.

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    Big Tobacco Defender Leaves King & Spalding to Launch Plaintiffs Firm

    After eight years battling smoker suits against R. J. Reynolds at trial, Bethany Schneider said she asked herself, “Am I going to be a big-firm lawyer or do something else?"

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  • Surrogates Court Surrogate Mella

    Publication Date: 2018-02-21
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Surrogate's Court, New York County First Department
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number:

    Surrogates CourtSurrogate Mella

  • Appellate Division First Department Cases decided on: February 20, 2018 By Richter, J.P., Gische, Kapnick, Kahn, Kern, JJ.

    Publication Date: 2018-02-21
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: Docket

    Appellate DivisionFirst Department

  • Paramount v. Allianz

    Publication Date: 2018-02-21
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Michael J. Garcia
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard B. Kendall, for appellant.
    for defendant: James A. Janowitz, for respondents.
    Case Number: No. 16

    Paramount Pictures Corporation, Appellant, v. Allianz Risk Transfer AG, et al., Respondent

  • Johnson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-02-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick Ervin Chisholm (Office of the Public Defender), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Craig Edward Miller, Joseph Kenneth Mulholland, Moruf O. Oseni (South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1479

    The evidence was sufficient to support defendants' convictions arising from the shooting death of one of the defendant's wife's romantic partner and the trial courts finding that the prosecutors peremptory jury strikes were not racially motivated was not clearly erroneous.

  • Red Zone v. Cadwalader

    Publication Date: 2018-02-20
    Practice Area: Law Firms - Large | Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court, Part 49
    Judge: Justice O. Peter Sherwood
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 650318/2011

    Ruling Sets Stage for $21 Million Cadwalader Malpractice Trial

  • Prothro v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-02-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason W. Swindle, Sr., Dane M. Garland (Swindle Law Group, PC.), Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham (Department of Law), Atlanta; Anne Cobb Allen (Coweta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Carrollton; Peter J. Skandalakis (Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia), Morrow, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1399

    Defendant failed to prove that he received constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel in his trial on charges of malice murder and other crimes after he killed his grandfather and set his house on fire.