Lawyer’s ‘pants are charred’ from lies, state supreme court says; prior panties accusation made headlines

Ten years ago this month was the start of a vicious recession, and some scars remain even if the economy has healed. The Great Recession, the most painful downturn since the Great Depression, destroyed more than 248,000 jobs in metro Atlanta — about one of every 10 — and led to a quarter-million foreclosures. Foreclosure…