The Cochran Firm is pleased to announce Attorney Hezekiah Sistrunk has been selected for membership in The National Association of Distinguished Counsel (NADC). The NADC is an organization dedicated to promoting the highest standards of legal excellence recognizing attorneys who elevate the standards of the Bar. Each member is thoroughly vetted by a research team, […]
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Best Lawyers in America Selects Hezekiah Sistrunk to 2016 List ATLANTA, GA, Aug. 17, 2015 – The Cochran Firm is pleased to announce that Hezekiah Sistrunk has been named to The Best Lawyers in America© 2016 list. National partner and president of The Cochran Firm, Mr. Sistrunk was selected to the 22nd Edition of The Best […]
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The Cochran Firm Atlanta was out in the community in a big way Saturday, August 1st as staff members helped Stuff The Bus provided hundreds of school supplies from backpacks to pencils to notebooks to children in need. The effort benefitted The Children’s Restoration Network which will distribute the supplies to hundreds of students in […]
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Georgia goveror, Nathan Deal recently unveiled a plan to hire 60 more highway safety officers to patrol Savannah’s port and metro Atlanta’s congested corridors after recent deadly crashes involving tractor trailers on I-16. These extra commercial vehicle enforcement officers will patrol “high crash corridors” near I-16 and I-95. Atlanta Highway congestion is expected to grow […]
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An attorney in Atlanta, Georgia secured a $23 million to a Miami woman whose extremely premature daughter was born with severe brain damage and cerebral palsy due to alleged medical malpractice. Dr. Michael Coffey of Port Charlotte was found liable for 70 percent and the hospital where the baby was born, Peace River Regional Medical […]
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Lawyer says GM and Atlanta-based law firm conspired to cover up defect. The plaintiffs class action lawyer who is suing General Motors Co. over its ignition switch has filed a motion accusing the Detroit automaker and its outside law firm King & Spalding of conspiring to cover up the defect. The motion charges that King […]
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Ninties rapper, MC Supreme, best known for the hit song “Black in America,” was killed in a suspected DUI accident, according to Variety. Dewayne Lawrence Coleman (AKA MC Supreme) was sitting in his Honda Civic on the shoulder of Malibu’s Pacific Coast Highway when his car was struck by a pickup truck. Coleman was pronounced […]
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In a case involving injuries that include catastrophic, unchecked bone growth in the spinal column following surgical procedures with Medtronic’s bone graft product, InFuse, the Supreme Court of Missouri has denied Medtronic’s petition for writ of prohibition or mandamus. The intermediate Missouri Court of Appeals refused to review the ruling via a writ of mandamus, […]
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Christopher “Kip” Hedges recently filed a lawsuit against Atlanta based, Delta Air Lines. The former baggage handler for the airline claims he was fired from his job of 26 years for union organizing and public comments about low pay for Delta’s ground workers. Hedges’ lawsuit states that his run-ins with management date back to 2008 […]
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After a Channel 2 special investigation that revealed deadly road guardrails, Georgia’s Department of Transportation is preparing to develop an inventory system to locate and replace outdated guardrail ends. In the 1990’s the federal government told states to remove the dangerous breakaway cable terminals (BCT); however, an investigation by Jodie Fleischer found more than 300 […]
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