Trial Advocacy

Mr. Peter Andrew Law Related Seminars and Products

Law & Moran

Peter A. Law (“Pete”) is the senior principal and founder of LAW & MORAN, a 5-6 lawyer trial firm dedicated to the representation of individuals who have suffered injuries and death due to the negligence of others, primarily in premises liability cases, motor vehicle collisions, product liability and a host of other negligence cases.  Since inception, Pete has been counsel in verdicts and/or settlements approaching $1,800,000,000.00 ($1.8 billion), including at least 7 separate cases with recoveries exceeding $50,000,000. 

Pete Law has been recognized by various independent surveys as one of Georgia’s top trial lawyers by multiple publications, to include Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers, and CVN Network.  Not only is Pete annually selected as one of Georgia’s top Super Lawyers, including multi-years as the number 1 selection (top vote getter of all lawyers, all categories), he has been selected as a “Top 10” vote recipient by the Super Lawyer independent survey every year for a decade. (See, Atlanta Magazine, Super Lawyers, 2003 - present). 

Pete Law is a Fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers (IATL) and International Society of Barristers (ISOB).  The Academy is perhaps the most prestigious organization of trial lawyers that exists in America, with members limited to 500 lawyers throughout 30 countries. In addition to multiple years voted number 1 by Super Lawyers, the Georgia business community has also selected Pete as a top trial lawyer, selecting him as a “Georgia Legal Elite,” (Georgia Business Trend, 2004 - present).  Pete is also rated by his peers as AV rated, the top designation available by legal publication Martindale Hubbell, and is listed annually in the Best Lawyers in America trade publication. 

Pete is one of the very few lawyers in American history to have ever settled and collected $100,000,000.00 for a single case – a feat Pete has achieved on multiple occasions.  Pete has been counsel for the Plaintiff in approximately 300 recoveries each exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000.00), including approximately 60 separate recoveries exceeding five million dollars ($5,000,000.00), and more than 100 separate recoveries exceeding three million dollars ($3,000,000.00).  In addition to trying cases, Pete regularly speaks at Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Seminars nationwide. 

When not practicing law, Pete enjoys traveling with his wife of 30 years, Agnes, and their five children, as well as attending to his farm.  Further interests include cars, motorcycles, water sports, art, welding, and gardening.

Ms. Linley Jones Related Seminars and Products

The Linley Jones Firm PC

           Linley Jones practices with the Linley Jones Firm, P.C. in Buckhead, specializing in legal malpractice, catastrophic personal injury, and wrongful death.  Ms. Jones is Past President of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and the first woman lawyer in the United States to be board certified in legal malpractice by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys (an ABA-approved certification board).  She has repeatedly been selected as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Georgia by Super Lawyers.  She has handled hundreds of legal malpractice and personal injury cases and is a frequent speaker on the topics of legal malpractice, ethics and personal injury. 

           Ms. Jones has also received the highest rating from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell, an AV-Preeminent Peer Review Rating, and has a 5 out of 5-star rating on Avvo.com.  She has been recognized as a Senior Fellow of Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honor society.  Ms. Jones has achieved multiple seven-figure verdicts and settlements on behalf of deserving clients.

Raised on St. Simons Island, Georgia, Ms. Jones worked as a Senate page for the United States Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C. during high school and then started college at age 16 as a Kemper Scholar at Emory University where she received her B.A. in political science.  Ms. Jones then obtained her law degree as a Callaway Scholar at Georgia State University in 1992, and served as political editor of the Georgia State Law Review.  Ms. Jones appeared on CNN over 100 times as a Senior Legal Analyst (in addition to practicing law), and has also appeared on many other local and national programs.  Ms. Jones was a co-founder of the City of Brookhaven, Georgia, where she now serves as Mayor Pro Tem and a City Councilmember after business hours.

Ms. Jones is also an active member of the American Association for Justice, the Lawyers Club of Atlanta and the Atlanta Trial Lawyers Society.  She currently serves as Parliamentarian of the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys and has served on the Board of Directors of the Civil Justice PAC.  She remains a champion member of both the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and the Civil Justice PAC. Also a supporter of the arts, Ms. Jones serves as Treasurer of Souls Grown Deep Foundation, an organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, and promoting in the canon of American art history the contributions of African American artists from the South and the cultural traditions in which they are rooted.  She also serves on the Board of Directors of Souls Grown Deep Community Partnership which is dedicated to improving the quality of life of communities that gave rise to the art made by African American artists of the South.

Linley Jones can be contacted through her website at www.linleyjones.com.

Mr. James Darren Summerville Related Seminars and Products

The Summerville Firm LLC

Darren Summerville is a Principal in The Summerville Firm, LLC, a boutique trial and appellate shop in Atlanta.  Darren graduated from Emory University on full academic and debate scholarships, then pursued a career as a biologist for several years before returning to law school.

Darren graduated summa cum laude at the top of his class at Georgia State, winning every major writing award offered by the school during his three years there.  He started at the Bondurant Firm before shifting his focus to a more plaintiff- oriented practice, and formed The Summerville Firm in 2011. 

Darren is the only lawyer in Georgia to be recognized both by the National Trial Lawyers as a Top 100 Trial Lawyer and as a Top 100 SuperLawyer in the area of appellate practice.  In the appellate arena, he has argued and defended some of the most impactful Georgia decisions in the past fifteen years, including decisions governing the constitutionality of the medical malpractice damages cap, the proper interpretation of the Emergency Department statute, the Apex Doctrine, and numerous arbitration clause disputes.  

Before and after the COVID shutdown, he averages ten to twelve trials a year, typically with an eye toward securing a clean record that would hold up on appeal.  As trial counsel, he has secured two nine-figure verdicts, and approximately 20 seven and eight figure results. 

Mr. Michael J. Gorby, Founder / Partner Related Seminars and Products

Founder / Partner

Gorby Peters & Associates LLC

Mike Gorby has tried hundreds of cases and handled thousands of matters for corporations and individuals across the United States throughout his legal career. Mike’s practice focuses on Insurance Coverage Disputes, Commercial Litigation and Liability for Owners and Managers of Property. He is also a certified mediator.

Mike is a passionate teacher. He’s chaired the Premises Liability Seminar for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education of Georgia (now a Division of the Georgia State Bar) for over twenty years. He is a frequent speaker for state and national legal education programs, including the ICLE.

Mike is the author of Premises Liability in Georgia, which was originally published by Thomson-Reuters® in 1998 and which is updated annually. Mike is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law.

Mike is rated AV-Preeminent ® (the highest level of professional excellence) by the Lexis-Nexis Peer Review Ratings™ system and has been selected as a Super Lawyer® by the Thomson Reuters® peer review system.

Hon. Dax Eric Lopez Related Seminars and Products

DelCampo Grayson Lopez LLC

Dax Lopez is native of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Dax obtained a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Vanderbilt University and his J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School, where he served as president of the Vanderbilt Bar Association and as an editor on the Vanderbilt Journal Transnational Law.

After graduation, Dax served as the law clerk for the Hon. Hector M. Laffitte in the Federal District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. Dax returned to Atlanta in 2002 and worked for three firms until 2010, Holland & Knight, LLP; Ashe, Rafuse & Hill; and Foltz & Martin LLC.

On August 10, 2010, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue appointed Dax to the State Court of DeKalb County, where he presided over both criminal and civil matters for 11 years. Dax also presided over the only Spanish speaking DUI court in Georgia.

In 2021, Dax left the bench to join DelCampo Grayson Lopez, LLC where he handles wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases involving medical malpractice, trucking accidents, product liability, and premises liability.

Dax is a past president of the Georgia Hispanic Bar Association and the Cooper Inn of Court. He also serves on the regional boards for both the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee. He is a former Trustee of Leadership Georgia and former member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials. Dax remains active in and committed to several other civic and community organizations.

Dax is married to immigration attorney and former State Representative Zulma Lopez. Together they have 4 wonderful and very active children.

Mr. Edward Alexander Piasta Related Seminars and Products

Piasta Walker Hagenbush, LLC

Edward A. Piasta is the managing partner of Piasta Walker Hagenbush, LLC. He advocates for innocent victims and their families suffering from someone else’s negligence. His practice involves premises liability, insurance bad faith, motor vehicle accidents, trucking accidents, workplace accidents, and business torts.

In 2018 and 2019, Ed had back-to-back Fulton County Daily Report Top Verdicts, including the Fulton County Daily Report’s Number One ranked premises liability verdict in Georgia for 2018. In that case, the defendant did not offer any money to the plaintiffs before trial. In 2021 and 2022, Ed and his partners had seven-figure verdicts against Walmart in Federal Court and another in Dooly County, Georgia. In 2023, the team had an insurer pay 250% of the policy limits during a negligent security trial, after the insurer had not offered a penny for years, and resolved another negligent security case for $19 Million shortly before trial. 

Ed believes in “swinging hard, but always fairly” and conducts himself “with the utmost sense of professionalism.” Brannen as Tr. of 1996 C. Bishop Brannen III Irrevocable Tr. v. Jackson Nat’l Life Ins. Co., 418 F. Supp. 3d 1231, 1234 (M.D. Ga. 2019), aff’d, 809 F. App’x 702 (11th Cir. 2020). Ed has been selected to “Super Lawyers,” along with three other lawyers at the trial boutique firm.

In addition to his law practice, Ed serves in the military. Since 2006, Ed has served in the United States Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, now with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. During “the Surge” in Iraq, he earned the Bronze Star Medal for his support of combat operations. He also served another tour to Iraq in 2018, serving as the general counsel for the 201st Regional Support Group. There, he was responsible for supervising legal offices at three bases across Iraq. He currently serves as the Chief of Military Justice (or chief prosecutor) for the Georgia Army National Guard.

Ed is a member of the Board of Governors for the State Bar of Georgia, and is a graduate of Leadership Georgia. Ed is married to his wife Kristie, who is also attorney at Piasta Walker Hagenbush, LLC.

Mr. Michael Louis Goldberg Related Seminars and Products

Fried Goldberg LLC

Michael L. Goldberg is a partner in the law firm of Fried Goldberg LLC and represents victimssuffering catastrophic personal injuries or wrongful death throughout the Southeast, primarily in the areaoftrucking and commercial vehicle accidents. Michael was born in Augusta, Georgia and played for the Division I Basketball Team at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia where he graduated with a B.S. in Political Science in 1994.

He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia in 1997. He has beenlead counsel for the plaintiff on 15 cases with verdicts in excess of a million dollars and is admitted topractice law in Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee. Michael was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers in October of 2013. Fellowshipinto the ACTL is extended by invitation only and is limited to less than 1% of the lawyer population.

Michael was named as one of the top lawyers in Georgia under the age of 40 by the Fulton County Daily Report in 2011 and was consecutively named as one of the top 100 lawyers in Georgia in the Super Lawyers editionof Atlanta Magazine since 2013. He is the author of the Library of Georgia Personal Injury Forms, 6th Edition and Understanding Motor Carrier Claims, 6th edition.