Recent News

On March 21,  2014 attorney Pope Langdale presented a speech entitled Valdosta Victories – A Look Back at Three Important Legal Cases that Shaped the Valdosta-Lowndes County Community at a Georgia Legal History Foundation seminar in Albany, Georgia.  The speech detailed three of the most noteworthy criminal trials that have ever occurred in Valdosta over the last fifty years including: United States v. Eddie Ray Crockett, Jr. and Jewell L. Futch, State of Georgia v. Keller Wilcox, and State of Georgia v. Maurice Cassotta.

The mission of the Georgia Legal History Foundation is to preserve, analyze, and depict the legal history of the State of Georgia, especially that of the Supreme Court of Georgia, and other courts of the State and the Bar, and to disseminate that history for the purposes of educating the public and the legal community.

Pope Langdale was selected as Georgia Super Lawyer 2014 in the practice area of General Litigation.  Pope has consistently made the exclusive list of outstanding attorneys in the state.
Super Lawyers are nominated by their peers, researched by an attorney-led third-party team, and evaluated and grouped into categories based on practice areas.  Attorneys who receive the highest totals from each category are selected as a Super Lawyer or as a Rising Star.

Fellow Georgia attorneys recently selected Langdale Vallotton, LLP attorneys Bill Nijem & Jimmy Miller to be included in Georgia Trend’s 2013 Legal Elite.  Georgia Trend has published the Legal Elite annually for the past eleven years.  Voting is done by active members of the State Bar of Georgia, whose practice areas correspond to ten areas featured by Georgia Trend.  Bill Nijem received the honor in the area of Taxes, Estates, & Trusts, and Jimmy Miller received the honor in the area of Labor & Employment.  Langdale Vallotton, LLP congratulates Bill & Jimmy on being recognized by their peers as elite attorneys in the State of Georgia.  Honorees are listed in the December 2013 edition of GeorgiaTrend magazine, which can be found online.

Last July, a jury awarded our clients $758,441.72 in the wrongful death of Dominic Barros involving a boating incident in November 2003.  Langdale Vallotton attorneys Pope Langdale and Jimmy Miller were featured in The Verdict Magazine – The Journal of The Georgia Trial Lawyers Association.
Read the amazing article here.

Partner Rob Plumb, attorney for Cary Scarborough, helps Deep South Sanitation stay in business.
Lowndes County Superior Court Judge Harry J. Altman issued a ruling Monday in the civil action filed by Lowndes County against Deep South Sanitation, LLC denying the County’s request for an injunction which would have put Deep South out of business.  Judge Altman ruled that the County cannot “construct a monopoly while simultaneously putting pre-existing companies out of business”and directed the County to issue a license to Deep South to continue serving residential and commercial customers in the unincorporated areas of Lowndes County.
Congratulations Deep South Sanitation and Attorney Rob Plumb!

Tina Folsom is one of sixteen selected to participate in the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers 2014 Leadership Academy.
GAWL’s Leadership Academy is an intensive leadership development program designed to provide women lawyers from across Georgia with the leadership skills, mentoring, and networking opportunities that will equip them to achieve their highest potential as leaders, in their profession and in their communities as a whole.
For more information on the GAWL, please visit:  http://www.gawl.org/page/gawl_about