When younger lawyers ask me for advice on their cases, among my first
questions are, “What is the venue?” and “Who is the
judge?” Often the response is, “Uh, I’ll get back to you....
For years both lawyers and insurance claims professionals assumed that
a plaintiff could not win a substantial verdict in certain suburban
Atlanta counties, notably Cobb and Gwinnett. Until the...
When the Georgia General Assembly passed Senate Bill 3 — the "tort
reform" conglomeration — in February 2005, most of the legislators
hadn’t even read the entire bill, most of its provision...
Senate Bill 3 amended 9-10-31 to bring back a “vanishing venue”
rule as follows: (d) If all defendants who reside in the county in
which an action is pending are discharged from liability bef...
The new Georgia tort reform legislation (SB 3) brings back the old
rule of “vanishing venue” in which a case could go all the way
through trial and then be sent back to the court of another c...
