• December 3, 2012 |

    Finding Sufficient Allegations of Property Damage in Underlying Action, Court Rejects Motion to Dismiss Insurer’s Subrogration and Contribution Claims

    A district court has refused to dismiss subrogation and contribution claims against an insurance company brought by another insurer, which had settled…

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  • Tender Loving Health Care Svcs. of Ga. LLC v. Ehrlich

    Publication Date: 2012-11-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Lavender III and Brantley C. Rowlen Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Michael A. Prieto, Robert W. Lamb Perrotta Cahn & Prieto PC, Cartersville, J. Darren Summerville, Sidney L. Moore III Summerville Moore PC, and Andrew E. Goldner, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Derrick Bingham Owen Gleaton Egan Jones & Sweeney LLP and Erin Kendall Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Atlanta. Amicus Curiae: Traci Courville Oates & Courville, Columbus.

    Case Number: A12A0892

    The trial court properly denied defendant nursing home owner and home health care company's joint motion for a qualified protective order that would have allowed their attorneys to conduct ex parte

  • Woods v. Allied Van Lines Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-07-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Boggs, Michael P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter Law and Kelly Christian Law & Moran, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Roger Harris Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Gene Major, Richard Brown Fain, Major & Brennan PC, Douglas Aholt Chambers, Aholt & Rickard LLP, Brantley Rowlen Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Atlanta, and Ronald Lowry, Marietta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A12A0362

    A third party's guilty pleas to traffic citations were admissible because the third party's liability was collateral to the defendant's liability but essential to the adjudication of the

  • Hayes v. Crawford

    Publication Date: 2012-07-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Steel Steel & Moss LLP, Atlanta, and Stephen Ozcomert, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edward McAfee and Rachel Krause Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A0329

    Reasonable minds could differ as to whether the defendant was negligent, and whether his negligence was the proximate cause of the accident at

  • Thorpe v. Sterling Equip. Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-05-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam Land, Andrew Hill Blasingame Burch Garrard Ashley PC, Athens, and Janna Blasingame The Wilner Firm PA, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellant.
    for defendant: . Brantley Rowlen Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A12A0743

    The defendant equipment company and its principal owed the decedent truck driver a duty to exercise ordinary care to inspect the truck arising from the bailor-bailee relationship between the company

  • Wingate Land LLC v. ValueFirst Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-02-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. E. Adams, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edward T. McAfee and Parks K. Stone Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A11A1568

    The trial court properly granted summary judgment to an appraisal company and its owner on the plaintiff's negligent misrepresentation claim, as no evidence established that the defendants appraised

  • February 3, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

    Davis Polk & Wardwell has bolstered its white-collar criminal defense practice with the hire of GREG ANDR

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  • Hawkins v. DeKalb Med. Ctr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2011-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Q. Bird, William B. Drummond Bird Law Group PC, James D. Summerville The Summerville Firm LLC, John W. Crongeyer Crongeyer Law Firm PC, M. Gino Brogdon Pope McGlamry Kilpatrick Morrison, and Lee T. Wallace The Wallace Law Firm, Atlanta, for Hawkins. Timothy H. Bendin, Kristin L. Hiscutt Bendin, Sumrall & Ladner LLC, Erica S. Jansen and Daniel J. Huff Huff, Powell & Bailey LLC, Atlanta, for DeKalb Medical Center, Inc. Other party representation: Rolfe M. Martin, Mark D. Meliski, Philippa V. Ellis Owen Gleaton Egan Jones & Sweeney LLP, Paul E. Weathington, Lindsay A. Forlines The Weathington Firm PC, Simuel F. Doster Jr. Allen Weathington & Reeves PC, Jason E. Bring Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, and Thomas E. Lavender III Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Atlanta.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A1006; A11A1007

    The plaintiff failed to adduce expert evidence giving rise to a triable issue on the specialized medical question of whether her daughter was brain dead prior to apnea testing and termination of ven

  • April 30, 2011 |

    Q&A: Craig Holden

    InsideCounsel talks diversity with Craig Holden, a partner at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith and chair of the Council on Access and Fairness.

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  • April 30, 2011 |

    How Leading Companies Are Prioritizing Diversity Early in the Pipeline

    Increasing diversity has become a well established as a central goal of the legal profession, but there's no question that much work remains.

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