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An Atlanta law firm has become among the first in the country to sue Volkswagen over its escalating emissions scandal. Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC on Sept. 22 filed a lawsuit in federal court in Atlanta against Volkswagen on behalf of a Georgia man, Joel Silverman, who bought a Jetta […]

Parker Executive Search, the well-known firm that helped place Norwood Teague as Minnesota’s athletics director in April 2012, disputes a suggestion by school president Eric Kaler that it didn’t do due diligence during the search process. Teague resigned on Aug. 7 after admitting that he sexually harassed two female university […]

The Manget Way debate is moving through the courts. When neighbors discovered last year that a company called the Center for Discovery had purchased a house on Manget Way and planned to use it as a place to treat teenage girls with eating disorders, their reaction was “apoplectic at best,” […]

 Wells Fargo & Co. asked a Georgia federal judge Wednesday to dismiss a $30 million lawsuit alleging it has reneged on a mortgage forbearance agreement, arguing all damages were speculative and that bankruptcy proceedings would have prevented it from foreclosing regardless. The bank told Judge Richard W. Story that the […]

In one of his first public speaking engagements since being elected to the Senate last month, David Perdue on Tuesday told a gathering of mostly conservative Georgia lawyers that judges “shouldn’t create law.” Perdue’s remarks came at a lunch meeting of the local lawyers’ chapter of the Federalist Society, held […]

The legal showdown between the Fulton County Commission and the Georgia General Assembly over the county’s vote to raise property taxes, laid out in two suits challenging the actions, has been simmering since last year when the Legislature voted to cap the tax rate until 2015. On Wednesday, the same […]

A judge has ruled the group that holds the title on the building at Peachtree and Pine Streets in Midtown Atlanta where hundreds of men, women and children bed down nightly can start the court process to evict the Task Force for the Homeless because it had not made a […]