Morgan & Morgan, self-described as the nation's largest personal injury law firm per its prolific roadside, advertising, has become one of the first U.S. law firms to make name, image and likeness partnerships with college athletes, including a Times Square Billboard deal with the University of Kentucky men's basketball team and an Atlanta billboard deal with Georgia Tech men's basketball player Michael Devoe. (Courtesy photo) Discovery Goes Forward in Morgan & Morgan Malpractice Suit as Savannah Judge Mulls Arbitration
"This is an important issue," said Richard Robbins of Robbins Alloy Belinfante Littlefield, an attorney who specializes in legal malpractice. "When you have firms like Morgan & Morgan, with a heavy volume of cases, putting arbitration provisions in their agreements, attorneys want to know how that will play out in real life."
October 16, 2023 at 06:03 PM
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Legal Malpractice
Chatham County State Court Judge Elizabeth Coolidge greenlit discovery in a legal-malpractice suit brought against Morgan & Morgan on Friday, as she weighed moving the case to arbitration in accordance with an agreement the plaintiff signed when the firm took him on as a client.
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