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A Shattered Life: How Time and Patience Led to Justice
This trial was a long time in the making. Explore our path on the way to justice.
Read More »HIOJ: How Teamwork Helped the Proverbial Dog Catch the Bus
This is a story about how teamwork to get justice.
Read More »HIOJ: The Defendant’s Medical Records V. The Facts
HOW I OBTAINED JUSTICE The Defendant’s Medical Records V. The Facts By Geoffrey Pope & Marc Howard In 2012, a referring lawyer brought Terri Franklin to our office. Terri was a 31-year-old who had given birth less than a year earlier to a little girl named Kendyl. During her pregnancy, Terri had taken the teratogenic blood pressure medication Benicar. Also ...
Read More »HWOJ: Workday Turns Tragic
A man's four-year journey for justice.
Read More »HIOJ: Steps for Evaluating a Difficult Intake
Negligent security cases may be the toughest cases to do an intake for. Find out why.
Read More »HIOJ: A Team Tirelessly Pursuing the Truth
Two lives forever changed -- and why this should have never happened.
Read More »Ten Years, Eight Courts, Five Cases, Three Appeals, Two Trials, One Bankruptcy, and No Insurance
Explore this long and winding road to find justice.
Read More »Justice For Sarah Jones
BY JEFFREY R. HARRIS AND YVONNE S. GODFREY On February 20, 2014, 27-year-old camera assistant Sarah Jones reported to work on the movie “Midnight Rider,” a film based on the life of Southern rocker Greg Allman, on location in a rural area near Jesup, Georgia. On the first day of shooting, Sarah and the rest of the film crew set ...
Read More »Hicks vs. MARTA: Turning A No Offer Case Into A $11,250,000 Jury Verdict
BY THE TRIAL TEAM OF PIASTA NEWBERN WALKER, LLC One evening in February 2013, 42-year-old Carlos Hicks fell through a two-foot hole in a guardrail at the Civic Center MARTA station while waiting for a MARTA bus. He fell 25 feet and broke his neck, causing his death. The medical examiner found Hicks had a 0.311 blood alcohol concentration at ...
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