Lawyers’ use of trial calendar brinkmanship to wring out last-minute settlement offers is nothing new. But the lawyer whose client agreed to take $900,000 to drop his suit against a woman whose candle-powered fragrance dispenser literally blew up in his face said it was a determined judge who applied the pressure that abruptly resolved the case.
Both sides were dug in when Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry W. Baxter scheduled the trial for the third week in January, said the plaintiff’s attorney, James A. Neuberger. Then the trial was bumped back a week, he said, but that conflicted with a surgery scheduled for a fire expert Neuberger planned to call as a witness, and the lawyers informed Baxter that they might need to seek a continuance.
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