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Tortious interference with business relations is one of the most frequently asserted — and most frequently dismissed — claims in Georgia commercial litigation. The theory is straightforward: a third party wrongfully interfered with a plaintiff's contract or...

Medical malpractice litigation in Georgia begins long before a complaint is filed. The statute requires plaintiffs to clear several procedural hurdles before the case can proceed, and failure on any one of them can end the claim before a single deposition is taken....

Georgia's renewal statute is one of the more plaintiff-friendly provisions in Georgia civil practice. It gives a plaintiff who has dismissed a timely-filed lawsuit a six-month window to refile — even if the original statute of limitations has since expired. O.C.G.A....

Security deposit disputes are among the most common landlord-tenant conflicts in Georgia, and they are among the easiest for a landlord to lose‚ not because the underlying damage claim is wrong, but because the statutory procedure was not followed. Georgia's security...

Georgia's approach to dog bite liability is neither strict liability nor a pure one-bite rule. It is a two-path framework that gives injured plaintiffs more than one route to recovery while still requiring proof of specific elements on each path. O.C.G.A. § 51-2-7...

Litigation assumes both sides will participate. When a defendant is properly served and does nothing ‚no answer, no motion, no appearance ‚Georgia law does not leave the plaintiff waiting indefinitely. O.C.G.A. 9-11-55 provides a structured path to default judgment,...

Alimony is one of the most misunderstood outcomes in Georgia divorce law. Many spouses expect it automatically; others assume it is a relic of an earlier era. Neither assumption is accurate. Georgia courts have broad discretion to award spousal support‚ or to deny it...

Most Georgia litigants know that attorney's fees can sometimes be recovered under O.C.G.A. Section 9-15-14 for frivolous claims or under 13-6-11 for bad faith. Fewer appreciate that O.C.G.A. Section 9-11-68 creates a separate, mandatory fee-shifting mechanism tied not...

A personal guaranty is a written promise by one person‚ the guarantor‚ to pay or perform the obligations of another if that person defaults. In commercial lending, commercial leasing, and trade credit, guaranties are ubiquitous. But a guaranty that fails to satisfy...