Quinn Bennett recently obtained a rare summary judgment in federal court based on lack of causation. The plaintiff claimed that an accident caused serious ongoing neck, back, and leg issues. Quinn was able to show that the plaintiff had a long history of neck, back, and leg pain and treatment [...]

Laura Eschleman & Bob Goldstucker gave a risk management lecture on 30(b)(6) depositions and their corporate implications in litigation at CHG Healthcare Services, Inc. in Midvale, Utah on November 6, 2019. Their lecture focused on the importance of specialized preparation for 30(b)(6) [...]

On September 25, 2019, Nall & Miller partner Matt Boyer and associate Tina Cheng achieved a defense verdict in a trial of Eighth Amendment claims alleging violations of a state prisoner’s civil rights, brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Serving in his role as Special Assistant Attorney [...]

Laura Eschleman presented the lecture “Watch Your Back for Reptiles – How to Slash Back and Speak the Defense Narrative,” to a group of physicians at their continuing medical education seminar in Marietta, Georgia on September 29, 2019. Laura’s presentation focused on risk management issues for [...]

Laura Eschleman presented “Do Not Let Your 30(b)(6) Deponent Get Snaked – Slash Back and Speak the Defense Narrative” at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association’s National General Counsel Conference in Baltimore, Maryland on September 24, 2019. Laura’s lecture to the general [...]

On August 26, 2019, Nall & Miller partner Matt Boyer authored an amicus curiae brief before the Georgia Supreme Court on behalf of the Georgia Defense Lawyers Association, opposing a Petition for Certiorari regarding the legal standard for evaluating premises liability claims involving [...]

Laura Eschleman was appointed as Vice Chair of the DRI Medical Liability and Health Care Law Committee, a Committee made up of 1,433 medical liability and health care attorneys and claims professionals across the country, and her one year term begins at the conclusion of DRI’s Annual Meeting in [...]

Selection to America’s Top 100 Civil Defense Litigators® is by invitation only and is reserved to identify most exceptional Civil Defense Litigators in throughout the nation.  Candidates are carefully screened through comprehensive Qualitative Comparative Analysis based on a broad array of [...]

Robert L. Goldstucker and Patrick N. Arndt obtained a defense verdict last year in a medical malpractice case which the plaintiff appealed. On February 20, 2019, the Court of Appeals denied plaintiff’s appeal and issued a ground-breaking opinion addressing the circumstances and conditions [...]

Nall & Miller is pleased to announce that partners Matt Boyer and Laura Eschleman have been named as 2019 Super Lawyers, Rising Stars. This is Mrs. Eschleman’s eighth year in a row and Mr. Boyer’s fifth year in a row obtaining this distinction. Super Lawyers is a rating service of [...]