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A federal judge has frozen multiple trust accounts of Georgia attorney Diana McDonald and ordered her to turn over a slew of financial records and communications. Judge Mike Brown, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Northern District of Georgia (Photo: John Disney/ALM) A federal judge in Atlanta has issued a […]

Our firm represented a small business owner who was assessed with severe back taxes and penalties for a defined benefits plan drafted by defendants. Defendants continually assured our client that this defined benefits plan complied with the law, in particular the IRS tax code, and failed to correct the drafting […]

Law360, New York (May 6, 2016, 8:22 PM ET) — Seward & Kissel LLP was smacked Thursday with a $12 million malpractice suit by Gray Financial Group Inc. alleging the law firm’s “negligent role” in advising Gray’s funds sale to a state pension left the investment consultant vulnerable to federal […]

At trial this past week, a Cobb County jury sided with our clients and awarded six-figure damages in a malpractice action over the mishandling of our clients’ defined benefits plan. Our clients, who own a homebuilding business in the Atlanta area, were hit with severe back taxes and penalties by […]

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 […]

Liquor magnate and two-time Democratic congressional candidate Roger Kahn has sued his former attorney and accountant for $7 million, claiming they are responsible for a 2008 federal court verdict that cost him more than $6 million.