An indictment returned by a Cobb County grand jury paints a picture of a lawyer’s nightmare: missing a deadline for filing a motion in a lawsuit. Except in this case, the lawyer is alleged to have lied to the judge about having already done the work at issue, then falsifying documents to support his story.
The lawyer named in the July 10 indictment is James Alan Langlais, a former partner in the environmental and land use group at Alston & Bird. A spokesman for Alston & Bird said he left in 2009. At the time of the litigation described in the indictment, he was a partner with the Langlais Law Group, which he started with his wife, .
