After 32 years as an outside defense lawyer for State Farm, Thomas D. Harper has officially gone to the other side. He became a member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association on June 13.

State Farm dropped Harper last year after he protested the company’s decision to start paying its outside defense counsel flat fees instead of by the hour. Harper subsequently left the insurance defense firm he co-founded, Harper, Waldon & Craig, in December.

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