• March 31, 2007 |

    Crisis Rolodex

    The Best Lawyers to Call in a Worst-Case Scenario

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  • March 31, 2007 |

    Crisis Rolodex

    The Best Lawyers to Call in a Worst-Case Scenario

    1 minute read

  • Lanier v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-09-10
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clark C. Adams Jr., Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, and Michael E. Craig, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A1662

    A witness's testimony that that the defendant had been in jail did not put the defendant's character at

  • In re Friedberg; In re Stein, In re Goldstein

    Publication Date: 2003-12-19
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and K Gene Chapman State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Bruce H. Morris, Atlanta. Frank J. Beltran, Atlanta. Douglas V. Chandler, Atlanta.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S01Y0714; S01Y0716; S01Y0717

    Attorneys from the same law firm were disbarred based on their federal guilty pleas to Conspiracy to Defraud the United States and False Statement on their 1997 Tax R

  • Slinkard v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-02-21
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George A. Stein Law Offices of George A. Stein, and Monte K. Davis, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory R. Barton, Solicitor, and Melisa A. Mason Douglas County Solicitor General's Office, Douglasville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A2465

    A single uniform traffic citation may properly charge a defendant with alternative methods of violating O.C.G.A. § 40-

  • Mimms v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-04-05
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George A. Stein Law Offices of George A. Stein, and Monte K. Davis, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph J. Drolet, Solicitor General, and Katherine Diamandis, Assistant Solicitor, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A1988

    Defendant's counsel waived a hearing on defendant's motion for new trial by failing to appear at the scheduled hearing which had been reschedule eight times over a 1-year period, partly due to defen

  • Vonslep v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-08
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George A. Stein and Margaret A. Reeves The Law Offices of George Stein, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barry E. Morgan, Solicitor General, Jessica K. Morris, Assistant Solicitor General, and Sandra G. Dawson, Assistant Solicitor, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A2293

    Defense counsel waived defendant's right to automatic discharge and dismissal by seeking multiple leaves of absence and consenting to have defendant's trial date reset outside of the allowable time p

  • Taylor v. Powertel Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-07-20
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Dorian Britt, Robert B. Turner and Brent J. Savage Savage, Turner & Pinson, Savannah,, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott E. Taylor and Aaron M. Danzig Arnall, Golden & Gregory, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A1508

    Plaintiff failed to show that the erroneous out-of-state taxes included in his cellular phone bill constituted an identifiable fund to which he had an immediate right of posse

  • Williams v. Lawrence

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, and W. Swain Wood Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Lawrence, Hardwick, proceeded pro se. Amicus appellee: James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta.

    Case Number: S00A1487

    Parole officer's hearsay testimony at defendant's parole revoc hearing did not violate defendant's due process right of confront

  • Peek v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-16
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Monte K. Davis and George A. Stein Law Offices of George A. Stein, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith C. Martin, Solicitor, and Kimberly A. Gross, Assistant Solicitor, Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A98A1510

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's holding that the state did not prove that the person who drew Peek's blood for the state-administered blood alcohol test was qualified to do so by in