• Chair of the Annual State Bar of Georgia Product Liability Seminar
• Chair - Product Liability Committee (GDLA)

Trials

• Lead counsel in the first Georgia state court trial in which a directed verdict was granted to a defendant because the testimony of plaintiff’s expert witness was excluded under the Daubert evidentiary standard. (This case was featured in DRI’s publication, The Voice.)
• Defending an automotive manufacturer in the first reported jury trial involving a claim of personal injury from alleged exposure to “toxic” mold in an automobile.
• Lead counsel in likely the second jury trial involving a claim of personal injury from alleged exposure to “toxic” mold in an automobile.
• Lead counsel in a jury trial defending a financial services corporation against claims of defamation, fraud, and alleged punitive conduct.
• Lead counsel in numerous jury trials in which plaintiffs sought damages from automotive manufacturers for breach of warranty and violation of federal law.
• Lead counsel in a jury trial defending a recreational vehicle manufacturer against claims of fraud and alleged punitive conduct.

Appeals

• Successfully defending the first-ever application of the Daubert standard by the Georgia Court of Appeals.
• Successfully defending an appeal before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the exclusion of all of plaintiff’s expert witnesses under Daubert.
• Successfully defending an appeal before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold summary judgment in an air bag non-deployment case.
• Successfully defending an appeal before the Georgia Court of Appeals to uphold summary judgment in a case alleging design and manufacturing defects in the braking system of a pickup truck.
• Successfully appealing an adverse verdict before the Georgia Court of Appeals after being denied the right to open and conclude closing argument by the trial court.
• Successfully defending appeals in two different cases before the Georgia Court of Appeals to uphold the trial court’s denial of an award of attorney’s fees.

Motions

• Obtaining exclusion of plaintiffs’ expert witnesses under Daubert in five different federal court cases in Oklahoma, Illinois, Alabama, and Georgia, four involving the design of air bag systems (twice after a hearing with testimony from the expert witnesses) and the other a pharmaceutical case (after a hearing with testimony).
• Successfully defending claims of privilege for internal corporate documents of an automotive manufacturer through the creation of privilege logs and oral argument in support of the privilege claims.

Discovery

• Coordinating and supervising the review of a 1,000,000+ page collection of restraint system documents to identify privileged documents.
• Developing a reading room of documents for an automotive manufacturer including the categorization of documents and the creation of a privilege log with supporting affidavits.
• Consulting with an automotive manufacturer to create and maintain standard collections of documents, including corporate meeting minutes and Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard docket submissions, for production by that client.