After delivering a verdict worth more than $5.5 million to a man who sued his former lawyer and employer for legal malpractice and other claims, a DeKalb County jury will be back in court Monday to consider how much to award in punitive damages against Atlanta lawyer James Potts II. 

The only issue at trial in the contentious dispute between Potts and plaintiff William Clowdis Jr., an attorney and medical doctor, was the amount of damages to be awarded after Potts’ defenses were struck for litigation tactics a judge deemed “the most egregious the court has ever seen.”   

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