With more than a dozen million-dollar-plus verdicts captured by CVN cameras in Georgia throughout 2015, the field was crowded with worthy candidates for CVN Georgia's Plaintiff's Attorney of the Year honor. This year's winner earned the distinction with a landmark award in a products liability case that made headlines across the country. 

Jonathan Marigliano tells jurors medical negligence led to the life-long brain damage Esmeralda Palacios suffered during a 2012 lung biopsy procedure. Palacios' husband, Raul, represented by Marigliano, claims Drs. Laura Kaufman and Donald Silverman were negligent in their treatment of his wife during the procedure. 

Atlanta—Whether the catastrophic brain damage an Alpharetta woman suffered during a lung procedure was reasonably preventable became the key question presented to jurors as trial began against the anesthesiologists involved in the surgery. Palacios v. Kaufman, 13EVO17275.

Wade Copeland delivers closing arguments on behalf of his client, Dr. Stephanie Smith, who was cleared Monday in a $6.3 million malpractice suit by one of her pain management patients, Mittie Anglin. 

Lawrenceville, GA—A jury Monday cleared a pain management physician of liability for a patient’s debilitating spinal injury. Mittie and James Anglin v. Dr. Stephanie Smith, M.D., 12-C-02515-S3.

Update 12/14/2015: Jurors cleared Dr. Stephanie Smith of responsibility for the spinal complications Mittie Anglin claims have left her in pain and severely limited her ability to walk. 

Anglin's attorney, Andersen, Tate & Carr’s Render Freeman had requested more than $6.3 million for Anglin's continuing disabilities. 

Jurors took two hours to reach the verdict, capping a week-long trial focusing on Anglin's condition following the injection Smith performed. Read the full story on the verdict.

CVN will have more details and gavel-to-gavel video of the trial as soon as it is available. 

Lawrenceville, GA—As trial opened Tuesday over a debilitating spinal condition a Georgia woman claims followed a pain management procedure, attorneys debated whether the woman’s post-procedure symptoms required the pain management doctor take further action. Mittie and James Anglin v. Dr. Stephanie Smith, M.D., 12-C-02515-S3.

As critical as a well-prepared closing is, sometimes the moments with the biggest impact are delivered as a counterpunch to a remark by opposing counsel.  That’s how James Butler framed the 60 seconds of silence during rebuttal argument in Walden v. Chrysler Group LLC.