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Three days after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notified German auto manufacturer Volkswagen that cars it had sold in the United States for six years were violating federal emission standards, Atlanta attorney Richard Robbins filed what he says is the first product liability case against the carmaker in Georgia. Robbins […]

After a weeklong trial involving complex claims related to pension and tax law, a Cobb County jury awarded an Atlanta businessman, his wife and his company more than $735,000 in damages. But the award was trimmed to just over $400,000 after the jury apportioned 40 percent of the damages to […]

An Atlanta law firm has become among the first in the country to sue Volkswagen over its escalating emissions scandal. Robbins 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 Sportwagen […]

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 […]