Atlanta Injury Law Blog

As a trucking accident trial attorney based in Atlanta, Georgia, I try to keep up with trucking safety issues at the national level. The latest development was a statement last week by Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration director Ann Ferro at a U.S. Senate subcommittee. Some of the high points include: Core priorities of FMCSA…

Writing a law book may be compared to giving birth to an elephant. My baby elephant has at long last been released by Thomson West, the world’s leading law book publisher.  I will be happy to autograph your copy of Georgia Law Of Torts: Trial Preparation & Practice.  

The votes are in so it’s official. On June 19, 2010, I will become President-elect of the State Bar of Georgia, and on June 4, 2011, I will be sworn in as State Bar President, taking my place in a line that goes back to 1884. It’s a serious responsibility, but I will take care…

Atlanta may get a world class spinal cord injury research center. The Healthcare Institute for Neuro Recovery and Innovation (HINRI), according to a report this week in Atlanta Business Chronicle, would be one of a few centers in the world researching the complicated field of complete spinal cord injuries, in which the person loses all…

In my home Douglas County  today, a motorcyclist was killed when a trailer carrying aluminum cans that had separated from the pickup truck that was pulling it.  According to the Georgia State Patrol, the crash happened around 1 p.m. near the intersection of Lee Road and Park Avenue in Douglas County. The pickup truck was…

Most professional truck drivers follow the zero tolerance rules about drinking and drugs before driving a tractor trailer or other commercial vehicle. As a trucking safety trial attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, I see a lot of serious safety violations but seldom one involving DUI. But a recent tragedy in West Virginia demonstrates why there is…

When I saw that three tractor trailers loaded with copper cable had been stolen from Southwire in Carrollton, Georgia, it reminded me of my days as a young prosecutor out in the country. See Steve Wilson’s report in the Times-Georgian for details. As a young Assistant District Attorney right out of law school, I prosecuted…

Buses are not supposed to run off the road into a ditch. You don’t have to be a truck and bus accident trial attorney, in Georgia or elsewhere, to know that. Early this morning, a Greyhound bus ran off I-16 in southeast Georgia, westbound about halfway between Macon and Savannah. The driver ran into a…

Most of my work as an Atlanta attorney involves serious injuries and deaths due to truck wrecks around Georgia and the Southeast — tractor trailers, big rigs, dump trucks, concrete mixer trucks, delivery trucks, mobile cranes, etc. But my first truck-related trial, many years ago, was when I was an Assistant District Attorney in a…

When a tractor trailer crashed into a passenger van in March, killing 11 Mennonites en route to a wedding, the truck driver from Alabama had been continually on his cell phone and speeding up to 80 mph, according to the Kentucky State Police report. Right now I’m working on a brief opposing a motion to…