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The National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) recently appointed and seated the National Board of Complex Litigation Lawyers (NBCLL), a division of NBTA. NBCLL brings together exceptional experience and expertise of judges, attorneys and law professors – all national leaders in complex litigation. The purpose of NBCLL will be threefold: To develop a national board-certified […]

Tomorrow a Fulton County Grand Jury will convene to decide whether or not to indict former Atlanta Police Officer James Burns in the unlawful killing of Caine Rogers. Rogers was shot in the head on June 22, 2016 on Monroe Place in Midtown Atlanta. Two months after the tragic shooting, on August 31, another Fulton […]

Hezekiah Sistrunk, of The Cochran Firm, has been selected to the 2017 list as a member of the Nation’s Top One Percent by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel. NADC is an organization dedicated to promoting the highest standards of legal excellence. Its mission is to objectively recognize the attorneys who elevate the standards of […]

Mr. Hall, along with his wife, Christina, their two sons, their son’s girlfriend and a grandchild, was attempting to use a parking pass to gain access in a parking area at a MotoCross event at The Georgia World Congress Center on February 25th where his son was participating.  Off duty APD Sergeant Mathieu Cadeau was working traffic for that event and […]

What is it like for you to be a female attorney? I really see myself as a lawyer first and my gender second.  However, there have been many unique challenges to being a female attorney, including being taken seriously as a lead trial attorney, and having defense and co-defense counsel not wanting to include me in […]

“The day my dad died was a perfect Southern California day. Twelve years have passed since he died of an inoperable brain tumor, and there is not a day that I don’t think about him. His engaging sense of humor, his awesome advice, just his calming presence in my life. I’m certainly not the first […]

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About The Cochran Firm Atlanta Our Vision—Justice Is Blind The Cochran Firm Atlanta lives as the legacy of esteemed plaintiff’s personal injury and criminal defense lawyer, Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. We practice a legal philosophy that honors the vision and experience of Johnnie Cochran. His commitment to equal justice for all victims of serious personal […]

December 15, 2015 On behalf of the Trial Lawyers Board of Regents, let me be the first to congratulate you, as your firm will officially be conferred a 2015 Litigator Award™ this January. This great honor provides a “Powerful Endorsement” of superior litigation achievement, as the 2015 Litigator Award Winners™ will stand among the Top […]