In a long-running legal malpractice case, the Supreme Court of Georgia has upended a $2.8 million verdict against Dahlonega lawyer Steven Leibel, finding that both the Georgia Court of Appeals and the trial judge made errors in the case.
The high court’s unanimous opinion, written by Justice Harold Melton in a case of first impression, reversed a 2010 ruling by the Georgia Court of Appeals that had reinstated a $2 million jury award in 2008 in Fulton County State Court to Dr. Mary Johnson, formerly a pediatric neurosurgeon with Scottish Rite Hospital, which is now part of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
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