Atlanta Injury Law Blog

In Los Angeles last night, this big rig with a vehicle jammed underneath it  slid down an embankment off  the 60 freeway.  A unidentified victim was dead at the scene. The cause of the crash was not revealed in early reports.  With my son planning to enroll in college in the LA area in a…

The first catastrophic plaintiff’s case I handled involved brain injury to a toddler in a condo swimming pool that was fenced an nominally locked, though not well enough to keep out a toddler who strayed from her mom who was momentarily distracted with care of a newborn sibling.  My own kids were little then, so…

In a show of good sense, North Carolina doctors and trial lawyers have  joined to support a bill that would place a $1 million dollar cap on some medical malpractice cases. The bill would limit monetary damages in medical negligence cases for parties who agree to enter into binding arbitration. Lawmakers are hopeful that the…

Yesterday an attractive young lady appeared at my office without an appointment to solicit a relationship with a chiropractic clinic handling motor vehicle personal injury matters.  The relationship between some (though certainly not all) chiropractors and some bottom feeding lawyers is notorious.  Over the years I have heard numerous accounts of people whose names appear…

A good, well trained court interpreter is essential when a witness is not fluent in English.  However, it is not enough to be merely bilingual. While we can usually get trained, certified court interpreters in the more common languages, that is often impossible when dealing with more obscure tongues.  I had a vivid example today,…

It’s always a good day when you pick up a fi fa in the amount of $2,245,940.17, and at the same time get an order for the defendant to submit an appeal bond to cover that plus a year’s post-judgment interest.  The Shigley Law Firm  represents plaintiffs in wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases statewide…

My youngest child graduates from high school next week, and a couple of weeks later I will celebrate the 30th anniversary of my admission to the Georgia Bar.  With one child in line for a “full ride” at RIT in New York, and the other child going off to play football in California with hopes…

Occasionally we get requests for free advice from lawyers who are younger, or whose practices focus in another field of law, and who are struggling to figure out how to handle a complex personal injury or wrongful death case.  Eventually I sometimes ask if they have considered referring the case to someone who handles such…

The American Association for Justice (formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America) has  filed an ethics complaint against Washington, D.C., administrative law judge Roy Pearson Jr., the guy who made news with a  $65 million lawsuit against a local dry cleaner for losing a pair of his pants.  Clearly we lawyers need to do something…