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Lawyers Key in Nunn Campaign

Written by Firm | Aug 6, 2014 | News

If recently leaked campaign strategy memos are to be believed, U.S. Senate candidate Michelle Nunn is looking to Georgia lawyers as a pillar of her bid for Congress. Names of lawyers from various practice areas are sprinkled throughout the 144-page bundle, which contain documents from staff and consultants outlining the […]

Manget Way treatment home up for BZA vote

Written by Firm | Jun 3, 2014 | News

The legal saber-rattling over the attempt by Center for Discovery to convert a home on Manget Way in Dunwoody into a treatment center for girls with eating disorders ramped up in the last week. The city’s Board of Zoning Appeals was scheduled to hear the appeal Tuesday of Manget Way […]

Judge to order mediation in Ferdinand lawsuit

Written by Firm | Jun 2, 2014 | News

A Fulton County Superior Court judge has ordered Tax Commissioner Arthur Ferdinand (above) and County Commissioner Liz Hausmann, who filed a lawsuit accusing Ferdinand of abusing his authority, to try to mediate their dispute. A judge Monday said she was not inclined to dismiss a lawsuit accusing Fulton County Tax […]

Client Sues Accountant Who Suggested Thieving Lawyer

Written by Firm | Apr 11, 2014 | News

A man whose attorney went to prison after admitting she stole almost $290,000 from him has sued the lawyer’s onetime employer, a certified public accountant who allegedly recommended that he park hundreds of thousands of dollars in the lawyer’s escrow account as a tax-shelter measure. The suit Andrew Clark filed […]

Convenience Stores Sue Over 50-50 Gaming Split

Written by Firm | Oct 31, 2013 | News

A group of convenience store owners are fighting a new state law regulating coin-operated video gambling machines that demands they give 50 percent of the machine’s profits to the machines’ owners. The store owners recently have shifted their battleground, dropping a federal suit and re-filing a similar one in Fulton […]

Tax Liens Sold On Homeless Shelter Property

Written by Firm | Oct 7, 2013 | News

The company that wants to evict a homeless shelter from Midtown is scrambling to prevent private tax-lien buyers from swooping in and foreclosing on the property before a trial next month resolves whether the company properly owns the deed. Premium Funding Solutions, which claims to own the homeless shelter site […]

Robbins Firm Recruits Two Government Lawyers

Written by Firm | Sep 23, 2013 | News

Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield has recruited two lawyers from state government for its growing regulatory and administrative law practice. Vincent Russo resigned as general counsel and assistant securities commissioner for the Georgia Secretary of State’s office to join the firm as counsel on Sept. 1. The litigation firm also […]