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When people call us about a potential lawsuit for wrongful death or catastrophic injury in Georgia, one of the topics they sometimes find confusing is the decision about where to file a suit. T...

https://www.atlantainjurylawblog.com/state-procedure/venue-choices-for-georgia-personal-injury-and-wrongful-death-lawsuits.html

Dax Lopez is a judge of the State Court of DeKalb County, nominated by lame-duck President Obama to fill a vacant seat  on the U.S. District court in Atlanta, as an apparent bipartisan compromis...

https://www.atlantainjurylawblog.com/uncategorized/puzzling-stall-of-federal-judgeship-nomination-in-georgia.html

In 2011, as I prepared to take office as president of the State Bar of Georgia, this was the topic of brainstorming with lawyers and judges. After discussing it with then Chief Justice Carol W. H...

https://www.atlantainjurylawblog.com/federal-procedure/what-should-georgias-court-system-look-like-in-20-years.html

Cruise ships are like floating cities with thousands of passengers on board. Usually a lot more fun than the typical workaday city, but probably no less likely to involve accidents and injuries. ...

https://www.atlantainjurylawblog.com/legal-info/injury-claims-against-cruise-ship-lines-must-be-filed-in-court-within-one-year.html

Supreme Court Justice David Souter told the Tennessee Assistant Attorney General, "I simply cannot follow your argument because I believe you have just made a statement to me that is utterly irra...

https://www.atlantainjurylawblog.com/federal-procedure/supreme-court-justice-calls-lawyers-argument-utterly-irrational.html

I noted earlier that a pay raise for federal judges had been included in the bailout bill for the auto industry.  Now the judicial pay raise has bitten the dust, at least temporarily, because it...

https://www.atlantainjurylawblog.com/federal-procedure/judicial-pay-raise-scuttled.html

Those of us whose livelihood depends upon the decisions of judges almost always genuflect for any suggestion of a pay raise for judges. I have done it before and I will do it again.  I genuflect...

https://www.atlantainjurylawblog.com/federal-procedure/federal-judges-pay-raise-tucked-into-detroit-bailout-bill.html

At 12:45 AM this morning, the driver of the Somerset Food Service tractor-trailer was killed on I-75 in Kentucky when a Chevrolet van crossed the median into the northbound lanes and stopped. The...

https://www.atlantainjurylawblog.com/federal-procedure/driver-of-passenger-van-at-fault-in-death-of-kentucky-truck-driver.html

As an Atlanta lawyer handling both defective product and motor carrier cases, I have been troubled over the past several years by a trend of federal agencies seeking to block juries from ever get...

https://www.atlantainjurylawblog.com/tort-reform-in-georgia/federal-judge-in-arkansas-shells-the-corn-about-overreaching-federal-preemption.html

Last month there was a news story about the New Jersey Committee on Attorney Advertising, a panel appointed by the Supreme Court of New Jersey ruling that attorney advertisements that tout listin...

https://www.atlantainjurylawblog.com/legal-info/super-lawyer-listing-still-ok-in-georgia.html