This is what happens in court when ex-office mates become adversaries

Paul Howard and Wendy Shoob shared an office decades ago when they worked together as trial prosecutors at the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office.

Now, Howard is Fulton’s longtime district attorney and Shoob is a Superior Court judge. And they’re no longer office mates, they’re embittered adversaries.

For much of this year, the former colleagues have been at loggerheads over how criminal cases have been handled in Shoob’s courtroom.