• September 23, 2022 | Litigation Daily

    Another Packed Edition of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

    The Quinn Emanuel trial team that landed a $174.5 million patent infringement verdict against Meta Platforms and its Instagram subsidiary for client Voxer are this week's first runners-up.

    6 minute read

  • September 22, 2022 | Texas Lawyer

    Young Partner Takes the Lead at HFW's Houston Office in a Changing of the Guard

    Insurance litigator Amanda Kujda, new office head at Holman Fenwick Willan in Houston, is tasked with growing the office that is the U.K. firm's only one in the U.S.

    2 minute read

  • Watson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-09-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Clark, (Clark & Towne, PC), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Norris Lewis, (Gwinnett County District Attorney Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0772

    Court affirms conviction for drug trafficking over defendants procedural objection and contention of trial court error in a refusal to suppress seized evidence

  • September 14, 2022 | Daily Report Online

    Who Will Be Georgia's Newest Judges? These Judicial Races Are Set for Nov. 8

    Of seven judicial races to be decided by special elections on Nov. 8, four are contested. Candidates are competing for judegeships in Appling, Polk, Rabun and Talbot county probate and magistrate courts.

    10 minute read

  • September 14, 2022 | Law.com

    Who Got the Work?℠: Three Firms Advise on State Farm's $1.2B Stake in Home Security Giant ADT and More

    Welcome to "Who Got the Work?℠," a regular column that highlights the law firms and lawyers around the country who are being brought in to handle key cases and close major deals for their clients.

    11 minute read

  • September 13, 2022 | Insurance Coverage Law Center

    'Direct Action' Statute Leveraged to Secure $1M Settlement Against Trucking Insurer

    "We ended up litigating an issue that I think comes up in a lot of cases but often isn't litigated to conclusion and that's the applicability of a direct action against a motor carriers insurer in a case in which the motor carrier is carrying its own property," said Jeb Butler of Butler Kahn in Atlanta.

    5 minute read

  • Hall et al. v. Davis Lawn Care Service, Inc., et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-13
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Wrongful Death
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Madden Cork, (Law Offices of Charles M. Cork, III), Decatur, Trent B. Speckhals, (Speckhals Law, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Holder Smith, Jr., William Justin Purvis, (Young, Thagard, Hoffman, Smith & Lawrence), Valdosta, Thomas Packer Willingham, Mary Leah Miller, (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, PC), Atlanta, William U. Norwood, (Attorney at Law), Thomasville, Yehuda Smolar, (Yes Law Group LLC), Atlanta, Richard K. Hines, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP), Atlanta, Raleigh Willis Rollins, (Alexander & Vann, LLP), Thomasville, for appellee; Roy M. Sobelson, Atlanta, Melinda Cole Pillow, (Law Office of Melinda C. Pillow, LLC), Decatur, Brian Michael Deutsch, (McCurdy & Candler, LLC), Decatur, Linda S. Pacer, (Pacer Law LLC), Alpharetta, Kevin Timothy O’Sullivan, (Cohen, Pollock, Merlin Turner, P.C.), Atlanta, Millie Baumbusch, (Baumbusch Law, LLC), Atlanta, Allison L. Byrd, (Morgan & Disalvo, P.C.), Alpharetta, Ruthann P. Lacey, (Law Office Of Ruthann P. Lacey, P.C.), Atlanta, Deana M. Spencer, (Spencer Law, LLC), Lawrenceville, David Paul Pollan, (The Pollan Law FIRM), Atlanta, Sarah Elizabeth Siedentopf, (Siedentopf LAW), Atlanta, Hamida Jackson-Little, (Law Offices of HJ Little), Alpharetta, Diane Beth Weinberg, (Weinberg Elder Law, LLC), Sandy Springs, Mark Allen Crigler Robinson, (Robinson & Blazer, LLP), Decatur, for Amicus Appellant.

    Case Number: s22g0019

    Conservator Did Not Forfeit Exclusive Power to Participate in Litigation on Behalf of Minor Children

  • September 12, 2022 | Daily Report Online

    Litigators Leverage 'Direct Action' Statute to Secure $1M Settlement Against Trucking Insurer

    "We ended up litigating an issue that I think comes up in a lot of cases but often isn't litigated to conclusion and that's the applicability of a direct action against a motor carriers insurer in a case in which the motor carrier is carrying its own property," said Jeb Butler of Butler Kahn in Atlanta.

    5 minute read

  • September 6, 2022 | Texas Lawyer

    Court Divided on Legal Malpractice: Judges Reverse $20M Judgment, Order 3rd Trial

    The majority opinion, delivered Aug. 31 by Justice Amanda Reichek, took issue with a jury charge that states in part a that Terry would not have been required to prove the plaintiffs case' to designate Flaven as a responsible third party.

    6 minute read

  • September 2, 2022 | Daily Report Online

    Francys Johnson Is Celebrating His 2 Latest Legal Victories

    Lead defense attorney Francys Johnson of Davis Bozeman Johnson Law in Statesboro intends to appeal his client's involuntary manslaughter conviction on grounds "there was no predicate 'unlawful act' other than a felony."

    8 minute read