Lawyers Demonstrate Cross Examination Techniques in Trucking Case
The firm's Atlanta tractor trailer accident lawyers in cooperation with our good friend, Michael Goldberg, recently finished up depositions of the tractor trailer company's driver. In the attached video, you will see what often happens when an undertrained and nervous driver attempts to make up a story to get out of responsibility. This video was made as a backdrop to a live mediation presentation our firm gave last week.
In this case, our client was operating a dump truck while towing a light pickup truck, shortly after midnight on I-85. The semi tractor trailer crashed into the rear of our client and, according to the police report, rear ended the dump truck and knocked it off the highway. Our client speaks only Spanish and the investigating officer decided that the crash was our client's fault because he felt the tow lights on the pickup were inadequate.
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In Georgia, it is well established that if you are hit by a drunk driver, you can seek punitive (punishment) damages. One issue that has been hotly debated though is whether you can introduce evidence that the other driver was drunk where the case is proceeding to trial with only the Uninsured Motorist carrier remaining as a viable defendant. Georgia Appellate Courts seems to have finally clarified their answer with a resounding "yes."
Today we just wanted our readers to reflect on what it means to be a lawyer with integrity. I was fortunate enough to have a mentor who believed in me when I was a younger lawyer and I will save the lengthy discourse on the monumental merits of mentoring for another day, but he left me with some role models. One of which is a probably fictionalized depiction of King Henry VIII's one time friend, Sir Thomas More. In Robert Bolt's powerful play about the difficult decisions More made, "A Man for All Seasons", he paints a lawyer for the ages. An honest and incorruptible Judge, a father, a husband and a very stubborn man. Bolt's description of him reads to me as a eulogy that few of us can hope to totally achieve, but that we should strive for. Bolt wrote:
