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Head-On Crash Nets $60 Million
A North Carolina man who was severely injured when a van ran head-on into his car has been awarded $60 million by a Virginia jury. Brian F. Hugen suffered a traumatic brain injury, multiple leg and jaw fractures and other complications.It's still early, but it's beginning to look as though plaintiffs whose property was destroyed by noxious fumes from defective drywall will be able to collect damages.
Top 20 Personal Injury Awards of the Year
Here are the largest personal injury verdicts reported by the Law Journal between July 10, 2006, and September 3, 2007, ranked in order of their value as of date of verdict or settlement.Judicial Council Calls for More Georgia Bench Seats
While Gov. Sonny Perdue prepares to pick new judges for Gwinnett County and three other areas, Georgia's judges want him to have more choices to make. Last month the Judicial Council of Georgia recommended that new bench seats be created for 11 judicial circuits -- with a new judge in Fulton County Superior Court as a top priority. Fulton County's high rank on the list comes a year after it failed to convince the Judicial Council to ask the General Assembly to create a new judgeship for the Atlanta Circuit.Long Aldridge Merges; Blackstock Leaves PoGo
Julia D. [email protected] Highlights for the city's law firms in 2002 included a big merger and name change for Long Aldridge Norman. And while the usual array of lawyers switched firms in 2002, one move stood above the rest: veteran litigator Jerry B. Blackstock left Powell, Goldstein, Frazer Murphy.Long Aldridge merged with Washington-based McKenna Cuneo, creating a 376-lawyer firm with eight offices.Ashley Smith Plunges Balch Into Media Law
Meredith [email protected] Sunday morning, T. Joshua R. Archer was in his office at Balch Bingham working on an appellate brief when the phone rang. It was a former client, Superior Court Judge Duncan D. Wheale of Augusta, calling to ask if he'd represent Ashley Smith, the woman held at gunpoint the preceding day by courthouse shooting suspect Brian G.Counsel Comes South To Test Fairness in Ga. Death Cases
Georgia is the only state that does not mandate that the condemned have a right to lawyers for the habeas process. The idea behind representation is to ensure death row inmates' trials and sentencing meet constitutional standards of fairness before they are put to death. If the U.S. Supreme Court declared such a right, states would be forced to ensure that condemned inmates have competent legal representation for their habeas petitions. But the court recently turned downed the chance to make that ruling.Trending Stories
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