Atlanta Life Financial Group subleased office space to The Hatchett Firm and Durham Law Group, and the parties litigated claims arising from the tenancy and alleged expenditures. The Court of Appeals of Georgia reversed in part and affirmed in part. It rejected derivative attorney-fee and recoupment claims where the underlying claim could not support compensatory damages, while leaving summary judgment intact on the grounds supported by the record. The decision returned the surviving matters for proceedings consistent with the opinion.