Michael, I appreciate the ambition and the zeal to get elected judge, but having now done my own legal research and consulted with both judges and lawyers on the matter, I do not believe you are eligible. Likewise, I suspect someone will probably challenge you.
As I know you are aware, the relevant statute is [...]

There is an open seat on the Court of Appeals. Right now, 5 people have qualified for it: Bruce Edenfield, Chris McFadden, Perry McGuire, Michael Meyer von Bremen, and Mike Sheffield.
Consider this an open thread.

Michael Rothenberg has qualified to run for Superior Court Judge in the Stone Mountain Circuit against Judge Gail Flake.
Rothenberg graduated from law school in 2002 and was admitted to the Bar on November 10, 2002.
You have to be a practicing attorney for seven years to be qualified to run for Superior Court.
What’s up with that?

The Secretary of State has details on what’s going to go down and I’ve got interesting gossip:

Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel announced today that she will call a Special Primary to fill the Republican nomination for state Senate District 13 pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 21-2-504(a), upon the withdrawal of state Senator Joseph Carter.
The Secretary [...]

You’ll have to forgive the language. Goodness it’s mild compared to what this lawyer deserves. Judge sweat should be applauded for slapping the lawyer down.

In a strongly worded June 11 order related to motions for attorney’s fees in a personal injury case, Western Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge David R. Sweat rebuked James [...]

Feds indict a Fulton County Magistrate Judge, William Garrett, and his family, consisting a Forsyth County Deputy Sheriff, on human trafficking charges. From the U.S. Attorney’s, Northern District of Georgia’s, office today:
THREE FAMILY MEMBERS INDICTED ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND RELATED CHARGES
Atlanta, GA - MALIKA GARRETT, 42, of [...]

That’s a lot of fired lawyers.
In what one local defense attorney has termed the “Friday Morning Massacre,” 21 staff members of the Atlanta and Stone Mountain Conflict Defender Office—including 17 attorneys—were notified that, effective June 30, they will no longer have jobs.
Georgia Public Defender Standards Council Director Mack Crawford confirmed that the attorneys, who represent [...]

Not really, but the lawsuit over a pulverized coal fueled power plant in Early County will be heard in Fulton County tomorrow:
Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore will hear arguments over whether coal power plants should regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant and harmful to humans. The argument stems from the state Environmental Protection Division’s decision [...]

The Democrats are challenging Voter ID in Fulton County Superior Court, not federal court.

Lawyers who have just filed a new challenge to Georgia’s voter ID law say a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding an Indiana statute actually bolsters their most recent effort.
“Frankly, the U.S. Supreme Court decision favors us,” said Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore [...]

From the tip line comes word that the Democratic Party has filed suit against Governor Perdue and Karen Handel over the voter id matter. I guess they’ve digested the Supreme Court’s decision saying it is legal to have a voter ID requirement and they’ve found what they think is a way around the decision.
From [...]

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Community Activist Marvin Arrington now is seeking to give drug dealers a second chance, as the AJC reports.
“Each [drug dealer] will be assigned a “citizen mentor” as a liaison with the court, and will be offered services from resources including the Job Corps, Georgia Department of Labor, Fulton County Housing [...]

Creative Loafing has the deets.

Commissioner Robert “Bobby” Baker woke up to some good news today.
The state Supreme Court this morning upheld a lower court’s ruling in a dispute over Baker’s residence, allowing the chairman of the Public Service Commission to keep his spot.

Christopher T. Adams, Esquire, pictured here, has been charged with 17 counts each of making false statements and theft by taking by Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter. What did Adams allegedly do? According to the AJC:
The county’s investigation found that Adams, appointed by the county to defend poor clients who could not afford [...]

Crossroads News of DeKalb County is reporting that DeKalb NAACP members and students from DeKalb Technical College will observe the workings of a courtroom later tonight. Per the report, they’ll be “taking note of what happens in Judge Michael Leeper’s courtroom as a part of the DeKalb NAACP’s “Legal Eye” initiative, started in April [...]

Here is a typical courtroom in the Municipal Court of Atlanta. Notice how there are no court personnel in the photo? You can expect to see more courtrooms like this in Atlanta if Mayor Shirley Franklin has her way and causes utter chaos with her proposed cuts to the Office of City [...]