Legal Industry News
February 10, 2010
Federal Court Slams Attorneys for Bad Faith, Misrepresenting the Law
A judge on the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia has slapped some Atlanta lawyers and their former client with sanctions of more than $300,000 to cover the attorney fees, costs, and expenses of the opposing party. The court’s 49-page order charges that attorneys Cary Ichter and Guy Weiss, the law firm of Adorno & Yoss, and their former client, North Carolina-based Costa & Grissom Machinery Co., “blatantly misrepresented” the law and acted with “dishonesty” and “bad faith.” The Court said that Ichter in particular “violated the integrity of the judicial system.”
The sanctions stem from a highly…
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