Cedra Mayfield

October 31, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"I think wrongful-death verdicts are a lot higher than they used to historically be ... but it's so dependent on [the facts of each case]," said plaintiff attorney Jeff R. Harris of Harris Lowry Manton.

By Cedra Mayfield

8 minute read

October 30, 2023 | Law.com

"Lawyers are going to have to start thinking about different defendants," said plaintiff attorney Amy Witherite of the Witherite Firm based in Dallas, Fort Worth, Atlanta and Chicago.

By Cedra Mayfield

8 minute read

October 26, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"'[L]oading' the decedent into the back of the patrol car was inherently a part of the detention process because the decedent could not have been detained inside the patrol car without having been 'loaded' inside it by the deputies," read the Supreme Court of Georgia reversal.

By Cedra Mayfield

7 minute read

October 25, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"Leaving three engineers and a high school physics teacher on the jury who understood the methodology [the accident reconstructionist] utilized, and how he arrived at his opinions turned out to be a good idea," said plaintiff attorney Jonathan P. Hayes.

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

October 24, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"[W]e are confident that the Court of Appeals will properly reinstate the trial court's grant of summary judgment to Prodigies Child Care Management on remand," said appellant counsel M. Ryan Del Campo of Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske in Atlanta.

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

October 23, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"I will bring to the bench twenty five years of experience trying and working cases across the state in many areas of the law," said shortlisted candidate Jesse L. Vaughn of Vaughn & Clements in Calhoun. "I have tried most every kind of case that can be tried in the Superior Courts of Georgia."

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

October 20, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"We were brutally honest about the fact that John took his own life on a night where he was drinking pretty heavily," said plaintiff attorney Andrew J. Conn of Harris Lowry Manton.

By Cedra Mayfield

8 minute read

October 19, 2023 | Daily Report Online

A municipal court judge, an attorney and a state ethics commission director are in the running to become the next superior court judge to join the Atlanta Judicial Circuit that services Fulton County.

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

October 18, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"The foreperson and several other jurors told us that they had been 10 seconds away from submitting the verdict that they had already agreed upon," said Jeb Butler of Butler Khan. "The verdict was for the [plaintiff's] family in the amount of $23 million, with 75% of the fault placed on [the defendant] and 25% on [the plaintiff]."

By Cedra Mayfield

7 minute read

October 17, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"First, we've got to talk about jurisdiction," said Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren. "We have to assure ourselves that we can be here."

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read