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Lawyer's E-Mail Used Against Him in Malpractice Suit
Wednesday July 20, 3:00 am ET
Andy Peters, Fulton County Daily Report

Real estate attorney James A. Gober must have wanted only a few colleagues at Arnall Golden Gregory to read an e-mail in which he wrote that he may have made a $1 million malpractice mistake.

But Gober's electronic missive is now a key piece of evidence in a suit against the Atlanta firm.

The e-mail dealt with an appeals court decision that appeared to be important to Gober's client, who was a week away from going to trial against a tenant the client claimed owed him about $1.2 million. The client, Gary A. Anglin of Chamblee, Ga., is not an attorney but stumbled upon the case in a supplement to a real estate law textbook he owns.
In the e-mail to his colleagues, quoted in the malpractice suit, Gober wrote, 'I completely overlooked an important recent decision that dramatically changed the landlord-tenant law. . . .' "