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September 14, 2007 |

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.
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September 11, 2007 |

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.
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December 26, 2002 |

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.
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March 17, 2005 |

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.
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March 17, 2004 |

Tempest Over Torts

In the Georgia and U.S. legislatures, tort reform is a contentious issue. Most Republicans want to limit damages and put a $250,000 cap per case on noneconomic damages; many Democrats want to check what they view as frivolous suits and defenses. In a panel discussion facilitated by The Daily Report, Georgia plaintiffs and defense attorneys discuss the verdicts, awards and statistics they believe point to or away from the need for tort reform.
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October 20, 1999 |

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.
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Florida Company Agrees to $55 Million Settlement in Chinese Drywall Litigation
Publication Date: 2011-06-14
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Banner Supply Company cut the first major deal with plaintiffs so far in the multidistrict litigation over defective Chinese drywall on Tuesday. It took the opportunity to bash another defendant, Knauf, for allegedly lying about the safety and fitness of drywall it sold to Banner.

Florida Company Demands $100 Million from Knauf in Chinese Drywall Fight
Publication Date: 2011-07-15
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Just a month after Banner Supply Company reached a $55 million settlement with plaintiffs in the Chinese drywall MDL in New Orleans, Banner's lawyers are claiming that the Knauf Chinese subsidiary that made the drywall is the one to blame. Knauf's lawyers at Kaye Scholer beg to differ.

Nevada Hepatitis C Outbreak Spawns Another $500 Million Verdict
Publication Date: 2013-04-10
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Plaintiffs lawyers are still making hay with claims sparked by a Nevada Hepatitis C scare tied to sloppy use of the sedative Propofol. The latest target, UnitedHealth Group, was socked with a $500 million punitive damages verdict this week by a state court jury in Las Vegas. The verdict is the biggest so far this year.

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