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Former employees claim Jacoby cheated them, mishandled projects; developer says workers broke contract

The city of Sandy Springs is being sued for its rejection of a redevelopment of the Lakeside office complex near Ga. 400.

The developer, which paid $62 million for the 1960s-era property, said it wants “substantial damages” from the city. The redevelopment project would bring a mix of office, retail, multi-family residential and hotel space and would generate some $3 million in tax revenue for the city, Greenstone said.

A federal judge threatened to charge lawyers and witnesses in a high-profile fraud trial with contempt of court on Tuesday after jurors said they thought parties in the case were following them and eavesdropping.

Three lawyers accused of taking more than $65 million from their former clients could not give their clients details about a 2001 diet drug settlement because it would have violated a confidentiality clause, an expert in class-action litigation testified Monday.

After spending his entire career in private practice at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, Richard L. Robbins launched his own firm, RobbinsLaw, with three former Sutherland lawyers, on May 1. The firm will handle litigation and regulatory work, including business and real estate litigation as well as environmental, employee covenant and trade secrets work.

The charter school movement is growing rapidly around the state and the country by putting business principles and results to work in school management. But in Georgia as well as a number of other states, the person charged with oversight of charter schools is neither an education administrator nor a business person, but a lawyer.