Lloyd Bell told the Daily Report that you "did an excellent job of keeping me out of trouble" during a trial in which your shared client was a $26 million verdict. What kind of trouble can a trial lawyer avoid when working with an appellate lawyer, and what happens if the trial lawyer—for reasons of winning the case at hand—needs to do what the appellate lawyer thinks is risky? In appellate practice, how important is knowing the tendencies of the judges who will decide the case? Put another way, does that matter, or will the law dictate how the court decides to rule? You have some success in working with clients on cert grants. How has the cert practice changed with the expansion of the Supreme Court of Georgia from seven to nine justices, and from shifts in jurisdiction between it and the state Court of Appeals?