Livestream - Torts Trial Practice

Mr. Jarome Emile Gautreaux Related Seminars and Products

Gautreaux Law, LLC

Jarome Gautreaux is an attorney, professor and author.  He has practiced in the area of torts and personal injury for 23 years, and he teaches Georgia Civil Practice and Procedure at Mercer Law School, where he has also taught Advanced Torts and Pretrial Advocacy.  He is also the co-author of Georgia Law of Torts: Trial Preparation and Practice.  

Jarome has tried numerous cases to verdict, and has obtained multi- million dollar verdicts and settlements. He has also authored numerous publications covering such topics as trial practice, evidence, torts, and persuasion. He served as a federal law clerk in Illinois prior to starting his private practice of law.  

Ms. Alexandra Catherine Cole Related Seminars and Products

Cannella Snyder LLC

Alexandra "Sachi" Cole is a partner at Cannella Snyder where she specializes in catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, product liability, childhood sexual abuse and whistleblower/qui tam cases. Since beginning her practice in the public sector, she has represented victims throughout Georgia and practiced in Savannah and Atlanta. With over a decade of experience, Sachi routinely handles complex civil cases in both state and federal court.

She is a member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, American Association for Justice, Georgia Association for Women Lawyers, Dekalb Bar Association, and the Atlanta Bar Association. Sachi currently serves on GTLA’s Executive Committee on the Judicial Liaison Committee and was recently selected for Leadership Dekalb’s class of 2024-2025. Sachi has earned several honors and awards throughout her career, including being named the On the Rise recipient by the Daily Report. She was also selected to the Rising Stars list by Georgia Super Lawyers.

Originally from Brookhaven, N.Y., Sachi attended Bates College in Maine, double majoring in Philosophy and Rhetoric. She earned her J.D. from the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta and is a Master of the Cooper Inn of Court.

Mr. Jesse Alvan Davis III Related Seminars and Products

Davis Adams LLC

Jess Davis is an Atlanta medical malpractice lawyer; he’s represented people catastrophically injured by medical negligence in Georgia and almost every other state. Jess has received nearly every award and honor available to Georgia trial attorneys, has led numerous legal and community organizations, and is regularly called upon by the media for comment on complex or high-profile legal matters. His law firm has recovered more than $100,000,000 for its clients, including multiple eight-figure verdicts and settlements.

Before founding Davis Adams, LLC, Jess was a member of the Litigation & Trial Practice Group at Alston & Bird, a leading international law firm, where he focused primarily on antitrust litigation. He has published articles on the subject of predatory bidding and was a contributor to the preeminent antitrust law treatise, Antitrust Advisor, as well as the American Bar Association’s seven-volume In-House Counsel’s Essential Toolkit. Although his antitrust days are behind him, the complexity involved in those cases was ideal training for medical malpractice litigation.

Jess maintains a highly active and wide-ranging pro bono practice. He helped spearhead a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. government related to the illegal detention of Vietnamese refugees; he’s successfully represented detainees at ICE’s Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., through the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative; and he’s provided free legal services to animal welfare organizations through the Animal Rescue Legal Society, which he founded in 2005 after participating in the emergency evacuation of animals from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Outside of his legal work, Jess has served on the Board of Directors for The Community School and Druid Hills Youth Sports, where he’s coached more than 30 seasons of youth baseball.

Before attending law school, Jess spent nearly a decade as a political aide and operative in Washington, DC, and in Georgia, including stints with the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, and numerous political campaigns at every level, including presidential, congressional, state and mayoral races. He remains active in national, state, and local politics.

Ms. Katherine G. Hughes Related Seminars and Products

Partner

Wagner Hughes LLC

Kate Hughes is a founding member of Wagner Hughes, LLC.   She focuses exclusively on handling long term care cases, including cases against skilled nursing homes, assisted living facilities, personal care homes, long term acute care hospitals and other similar facilities. 

After obtaining her undergraduate degree in criminal justice from the University of Georgia in 1999 and her law degree from Emory University in 2002, where she was a member of the Moot Court Society and the Moot Court Review Board, Kate clerked for two years as a staff attorney for Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jack Goger, where she was also formally trained as a mediator. 

For the following ten years, Kate worked for a large civil litigation defense firm, where she made partner, defending long term care cases before starting her own firm focused on representing victims of nursing home abuse and their families.  Her defense experience representing several large nursing home chains gave her a behind the scenes insight into the mechanics of how nursing homes operate, including both the economics and politics of the nursing home business, in addition to how insurance companies made their decisions when defending long term care cases.

Mr. John David Hadden Related Seminars and Products

Penn Law LLC

John D. Hadden is a trial and appellate litigator with Penn Law in Atlanta, where he handles catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases across the state. He is author of Georgia Law of Torts - Trial Preparation and Practice and Green's Georgia Law of Evidence, both published by Thomson Reuters. He is also a registered mediator with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution. John is president of the Atlanta Trial Lawyers Association, a member of the Atlanta Bar Association Board of Directors and past chair of the Atlanta Bar’s Litigation Section, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Atlanta Bar Lawyer Referral and Information Service, and a past chair of the Litigation Committee of the State Bar of Georgia’s Young Lawyers Division. John is a graduate of Emory University and the University of Georgia School of Law, where he was a member of the Georgia Law Review. John has been named one of Georgia’s “Legal Elite” by Georgia Trend, recognized by Atlanta Magazine in its annual list of Top 100 Georgia Super Lawyers, and holds an AV/Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell. He has also been recognized by the Fulton County Daily Report as one of its “On the Rise — Top 40 Under 40.”

Ms. Madeleine Norine Simmons Related Seminars and Products

Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys

Madeleine Simmons is an equity partner with Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys, City Councilwoman in the City of Brookhaven and President of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. She is dedicated to representing individuals who have been injured due to the negligence of others and holding wrongdoers accountable for their actions.  Mrs. Simmons has tried over 30 personal injury jury trials as lead counsel in 11 different counties within the State of Georgia.  She focuses her trial practice on premises liability, sexual assault, motor vehicle and trucking cases. She is consistently selected to the Georgia Rising Stars list, an honor reserved for only 2.5% of attorneys in Georgia.

Mrs. Simmons assists in the management, training, and mentorship of lawyers within her office and early in her career, at Georgia State University College of law, by coaching mock trial for the law school.  She is a board member of Georgia’s Civil Justice Political Action Committee and a fellow of the American Board of Trial Attorneys.  Through her involvement with the trial bar and the State Bar, she often speaks at and is featured in Statewide broadcasts, educational seminars and conferences on topics ranging from leadership and management to trial strategy and complex motions and evidentiary practice.  Mrs. Simmons truly believes that helping others is her professional and spiritual calling, and she is proud to call herself a trial lawyer on the side of justice.

Mr. Jason Edward Ashford Related Seminars and Products

Houston County State Court