Office:
Bell & Brigham
457 Greene St, Augusta, GA 30901
Specialties:
Civil Litigation, Personal Injury, Environmental and Toxic Tort Litigation, Consumer Class Actions, Products Liability, Retained Asset Account Litigation
Memberships:
Augusta and American Bar Associations, State Bar of Georgia (Chair, General Practice and Trial Section, 1981-1982, Chair, Georgia Institute of Trial Advocacy, 1983-1986), Georgia Trial Lawyers Association (Life Member, Vice President, 1978-1984, Treasurer, 1984-1986, Secretary, 1987-1989, President-Elect, 1996-1997, President, 1997-1998), Southern Trial Lawyers Association, The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Sustaining Member, Chair, Environmental and Toxic Tort Section, 1989-1990, State Delegate, 1990-1996). Fellow: Georgia Bar Foundation, Georgia Legal History Foundation (Trustee, 2000-2008, President, 2008-),
Admitted:
1972, Georgia, 1991, South Carolina, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 11th Circuits, U.S. District Court, Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Georgia, U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina
University:
Augusta State University, B.A., 1969, University of Dijon, Dijon, France
Law School:
University of Georgia, J.D., cum laude, 1972
Reported:
Mogel v. UNUM Life Ins. Co. of Amer., 547 F.3d 23 (1st Cir. 2008); Liberty Lending Services, v. Canada, 293 Ga.App. 731 (2008); Flournoy v. Honeywell Intl., 239 F.R.D. 696 (S.D. Ga. 2006); Kemp v. Amer. Tel. & Tel. Co., 393 F.3d 1354 (11th Cir. 2004); Jones v. Amer. Gen. Life and Acc. Ins. Co., 370 F.3d 1065 (11th Cir. 2004); Jones v. Amer. Gen. Life and Acc. Ins. Co., 213 F.R.D. 689 (S.D. Ga. 2002); Unum Life Ins. Co. of America v. Crutchfield, 256 Ga.App. 582 (2002); Taylor Auto Group, Inc. v. Jessie, 241 Ga.App. 602 (1999); Doctors Hosp. v. Bonner, 195 Ga.App. 152 (1990).
Biography:
Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Delta Phi. Author: "Products Liability Law in Georgia: Is Change Coming?" 10 Georgia State Bar Journal 353, 1974; "Proving Causation," Trial Magazine, October 1988. Law Clerk to U.S...