February 15th, 2012
ATLANTA, GEORGIA – February 13, 2012 – Kimberly J. Johnson has joined Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, Morrison & Norwood, PC as an associate in their Atlanta office. Since 2000, Kim’s practice has been devoted to complex litigation, personal injury, products liability, and appellate practice, most recently with Atlanta firm Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield & Knowles, LLC. “We are incredibly fortunate to have someone of Kim’s caliber working with us,” said Neal Pope for the firm. He continued, “Having Kim come aboard allows
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February 13th, 2012
On February 8, 2012, the United States Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation (“JPML”) transferred four cases involving the Wright Medical Conserve Hip Implant System to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The JPML held that the actions filed against Wright Medical involve common questions of fact, and that centralization will serve the convenience of the parties and witnesses and promote the just and efficient conduct of the litigation. All of the actions share factual questions
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February 6th, 2012
On Super Bowl Sunday, ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” focused its entire show on the recent lawsuits against the NFL related to the long term effects of concussions troubling former players. The show went in to some depth in discussing the allegation that the NFL had for years misled players concerning the risks associated with concussions. Similar to the tobacco litigation, the NFL’s committee on concussions spent years downplaying independent research showing the casual link between head injuries in football and
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February 1st, 2012
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has granted the National Football League’s motion to consolidate and centralize four concussion lawsuits against the League in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, with the potential for 16 other similar suits to follow. In an Order filed on January 31, 2012, Honorable Judge John G. Heyburn II, a U.S. District Court Judge for the Western District of Kentucky and chairman of the MDL panel, said Defendant NFL Properties,
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January 19th, 2012
On October 14, 2010 Pope McGlamry, in conjunction with Taylor English Duma, P.C. and the Sterbcow Law Group, LLC, filed suit in a Federal Court in Gainesville, Georgia on behalf of buyers and sellers of residential real estate in metro Atlanta and north Georgia against First Multiple Listing Service, Inc. (“FMLS”), its member real estate brokers, the agents who handled the transactions of the named Plaintiffs, and three boards of REALTORS®. The lawsuit alleges that members of FMLS, which include
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