August 2013

The accompanying photo is my sweet daughter, flashing the “I love you” sign from a school bus window on the first day of first grade in 1994.

When my children were riding the big yellow school bus to elementary school, I was confident that they would be safe on the school bus. In fact, most school buses are relatively safe. 

That was before I started handling injury cases for students on school buses, vans and tour buses carrying school athletic teams. All these years later, I am hardly surprised to learn that Georgia has one of the highest rates of

Among the most troubling matters I have handled as a personal injury lawyer in Atlanta are those involving brain injury to a child who has had a head injury.  Just as young minds can be shaped, young brains are easily damaged. The effect of early brain damage can impact the trajectory of life over many decades As a brain injury lawyer for families and injured children, one of big challenges is in educating insurers, defense counsel and jurors about the lifetime effects of brain injuries to children.

A while back I handled a case in north Georgia in which