• January 27, 2021 | Daily Report Online

    Emory Law's Inn of Court Renames Itself After Judge Clarence Cooper

    The Inn decided last fall to retire the Lamar appellation because the namesake was a slaveholder who advocated for "Southern rights" and white supremacy in the post-Reconstruction South.

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  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation v. R. Charles Loudermilk, Sr. et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-05-03
    Practice Area: Banking and Finance Laws | Damages
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joyce Gist Lewis, (Krevolin Horst, LLC), Atlanta, Curtis J. Martin, II, (Mozley Finlayson & Loggins LLP), Atlanta, Michael P. Kohler, Charles B. Lee, Laura Elisabeth Ashby, (Miller & Martin PLLC), Atlanta, George P. Shingler, (The Shingler Law Firm LLC), Decatur, Ashley Elizabeth Wilson Clark, (Buckley Beal, LLP), Atlanta, Kathryn R. Norcross, James S. Watson, Colleen J. Boles, John Stuart Tonkinson, (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), Arlington, Ellis A. Sharp, (Stokes, Williams, Sharp & Davies), Knoxville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Richard Long, IV, Brian David Boone, Theodore J. Sawicki, Elizabeth Gingold Clark, Lauren Tapson Macon, (Alston & Bird, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S18Q1233

    Georgia's Apportionment Statute Was Applicable to Tort Claims Against Bank Directors and Officers For Purely Pecuniary Losses

  • March 14, 2019 | Daily Report Online

    Justices Say $5M Verdict Against Bank Execs Subject to Apportionment

    Ruling in response to questions from a federal appeals panel, Georgia's justices said a trial judge was wrong to declare that "purely pecuniary damages" are not subject to Georgia's 2005 apportionment statute.

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  • April 3, 2017 | Litigation Daily

    Lateral Report: The Few, the Proud, the March Movers

    There weren't many run-of-the-mill lateral litigator moves in March, the kind where a mid-level partner at Big Firm A moves to Big Firm B, spouting something about platforms and synergy. Instead, t

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  • April 3, 2017 | Litigation Daily

    Lateral Report: The Few, the Proud, the March Movers

    There weren't many run-of-the-mill lateral litigator moves in March, the kind where a mid-level partner at Big Firm A moves to Big Firm B, spouting something about platforms and synergy. Instead, the most notable March moves were propelled by something extra.

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  • December 20, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Tough race, tougher tactics

    Kenneth S. Canfield, a key campaign adviser who helped Carol W. Hunstein keep her seat on the Supreme Court of Georgia this year, recalled a moment that crystallized what most worried Hunstei

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