Written by Firm | Aug 23, 2015 | News
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 […]
Written by Ellen Eldridge - Reporter Newspapers | Jul 10, 2015 | News
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,” […]
Written by Firm | May 21, 2015 | News
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 […]
Written by Firm | Mar 24, 2015 | Press
The Georgia Court of Appeals has rejected Fulton County Tax Commissioner Arthur Ferdinand’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought against him by a county commissioner. Commissioner Liz Hausmann filed the lawsuit in 2013, saying Ferdinand abused his authority by revoking the registration of a vehicle she owned. Hausmann said the […]
Written by Firm | Mar 9, 2015 | Press
Developers and a consultant who helped create a residential community on the site of an infamous housing project must pay nearly $1 million in damages and attorney fees to a woman who claimed she was illegally cut her out of her fees for her work in helping put together the […]
Written by Firm | Dec 16, 2014 | News
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 […]
Written by Fulton County Daily Report | Aug 10, 2014 | News
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 […]
