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  • Killearn Partners Inc. v. Southeast Properties Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary S. Freed and William J. Piercy Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . T. Michael Tennant, A. McCampbell Gibson and Wade W. Pearson Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellee: Seth G. Weissman and Ned Blumenthal Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S04G1320

    Nothing in the plain and explicit terms of the Georgia Brokerage Relationships in Real Estate Transactions Act precludes a broker from recovering under common law in the absence of a brokerage agr

  • McCombs v. Synthes

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian D. Rogers, Michael J. Warshauer and Lyle G. Warshauer Warshauer, Thomas, Thornton & Rogers PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lori G. Cohen and Jenifer N. Stephens Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01G1633

    Plaintiff was entitled to argue the adequacy of the manufacturer's warning to her doctor on appeal because the manufacturer based its successful motion for summary judgment on the learned intermedia

  • University Health Servs. Inc., d/b/a Univ. Hosp. v. Long

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wyckliffe A. Knox Jr. Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, and Joseph H. Huff Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas W. Tucker, John B. Long, A. Montague Miller Tucker, Everitt, Long, Brewton & Lanier, and John P. Batson, Augusta, for appellee. Amicus Appellee: Jack S. Schroder Jr. Alston & Bird, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S01A1658

    When reviewing a hospital's revocation of a doctor's clinical privileges, the trial court had to defer to the hospital's judgment that the doctor mismanaged patient

  • Pimper v. State of Ga., ex rel. Simpson

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Brinson, C. King Askew, J. Anderson Davis, Mark M. Webb Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis, Rome, Theodore J. Sawicki, John G. Goselin II, Craig H. Kuglar Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, and Edward D. Tolley Cook, Noell, Tolley, Bates & Michael LLP, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Andrew J. Ekonomou, Michael G. Lambros Ekonomou, Atkinson & Lambros LLC, Lewis E. Hassett Morris, Manning & Martin, John E. Floyd Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, William Q. Bird William Q. Bird & Assocs., Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, David S. McLaughlin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Stephen D. Smith Jr. Smith, Price & Wright, Edward Hine Jr., and Fred R. Simpson, Acting District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0946

    The Bankruptcy Court had exclusive jurisdiction over defendants' l of the denial of their motion to dissolve an ex parte temporary restraining order and receivership order to the extent that th

  • Albany Urology Clinic PC v. Cleveland

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas S. Chambless and Dawn G. Benson Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless LLP, George P. Donaldson III Donaldson, Bell & Pickett PC, Albany, and Wade H. Coleman Tillman, McTier, Coleman, Talley, Newberry & Kurrie, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William S. Stone and T. Craig Ernest William S. Stone PC, Blakely, for appellees. Amicus appellants: Harold G. Clarke Troutman Sanders, Thomas S. Carlock Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, John E. Hall Jr., Jonathan Marigliano Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Emmet J. Bondurant, Michael B. Terry Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, Robert E. Whitley, William M. Earnest Jr. Thrasher, Whitley, Hampton & Morgan, Jack S. Schroder Jr., Angela T. Burnette Alston & Bird, David A. Cook, William T. Clark Medical Ass'n of Ga., Atlanta, David H. Tisinger, Richard G. Tisinger Jr. Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer, Carrollton, Leonard A. Nelson and E. Ratcliffe Anderson Jr. MD American Med. Ass'n, Chicago, Ill.
    Case Number: S99G0600

    Urologist was not liable to plaintiff for fraud since he had no duty to disclose his use of illegal drugs or any other aspect of his personal life that might adversely impact his professional perfor

  • April 19, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Leah Ward Sears, 54

    Bio: Born in Germany; Emory law school; Alston & Bird; Georgia traffic court judge; chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. Since 2009, she has been a partner at Sch

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