Atlanta Injury Law Blog

Part of my routine includes going to truck stops to meet with interstate truck drivers. Some are witnesses in cases, and some are clients injured when another truck hits their truck.  It often occurs to me that truck drivers and trial lawyers have a lot in common. About 95% are pretty good folks who work…

As most parents of teens can attest, teenagers tend to have a solid belief in their own invulnerability.  Now the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey has published a web site  targeting teenagers  who currently are at highest risk for suffering from a brain injury. The site provides information and educational resources in hopes of…

The Georgia  Bar Center in downtown Atlanta was previously the Federal Reserve Bank building.  A great stone edifice with bulletproof glass windows, it is built like a fortress.  It even has a currently unused shooting range in the basement which in the old days armored car guards and Secret Service used for practice. When a…

Ron Miller has a good post on the Trial Lawyer Resource Center blog on “Should Your Bring Your Expert Witnesses Live to Trial?”  He makes a number of good points, and I commend it to your reading. I’ll spare you the buggy-load of jokes about the status of technology when I started practicing law.  But…

Interstate motor carriers and their drivers are required to make and maintain logs showing the driver’s hours of operation, activities and locations of stops. The potential for abuse is so legendary that paper logs are often referred to as “comic books.”  Many truck drivers have told me, off the record, of the impossible pressure on…

Once again, reality is stranger than fiction.  You just can’t make this stuff up. San Diego Superior Court Judge Patricia Cowett has ordered Starbucks to pay its California baristas (coffee servers) $86 million, plus interest, for using some of its employees’ tips to pay shift supervisors. A plaintiffs attorney in the case said the total…

The news of the entry of Mexican trucking companies and drivers into the US in recent months, despite concerted opposition in Congress, gets more amazing all the time.  Now the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is allowing Mexican drivers in the demonstration project to prove their proficiency in English by responding to the examiner’s questions…

Legal listservs are an invaluable resource in any practice area.  I have actively participated in some of them and have obtained great benefit in my practice. Occasionally lawyers I meet around Georgia are very kind in their comments about finding value in my contributions on the listservs. One thing, however, that puzzles me is the…

It comes as no surprise that the Supreme Court of Georgia rejected constitutional challenges to the Daubert rule on expert testimony in the newly released decision of Mason v. Home Depot.  The text of the decision is copied below. I apologize for formatting errors that may appear. It appears that Georgia attorneys representing injured people…

There was a potentially significant decision on February 19th in the Georgia Court of Appeals. It involves two of the most notriously scandalous avoidances of accountability in metro Atlanta — taxi cabs and the City of Atlanta — as well as the notoriously tough area of DOT liability for road design and maintenance.  I’m confident…