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In late 2018, the State Board of Workers' Compensation published statistics for the entire year 2017, their last full year of numbers.

Many folks in the US today want instant gratification. They want to tap the cellphone and get news, sports, entertainment and weather in an instant. Click on Google and get your question answered instantly. Unfortunately, that is not how the law works.

There are many of time when a client comes to me in an automobile accident case and they are treated by a doctor who has not ordered any diagnostic testing.

I got a call from a potential client who lives and works in Covington, Georgia. It is about an hour's drive from Atlanta. She said she had a lawyer but fired him because he didn't care about and didn't spend any time on her case.

A very frustrated Hispanic client came to see me just recently. He signed a contract with a law firm in Atlanta but never met with the actual lawyer.

Gradual onset of injury occurs numerous times in the Georgia labor market without the injured worker making a formal claim for a workers' compensation job injury/accident.

Sometimes I take a new client whose case seems to be complicated and it presents more than the usual challenges or litigation. My office staff asks me why do I do so?

In December 2017, I took one of my workers' compensation client's cases that I prepared as well as possible to present to one of the judges at the State Board of Workers' Compensation at what we call a hearing. I presented my client's position in the best possible light.

In 1992, the Georgia legislature was influenced by the insurance companies to abolish the use of vocational rehabilitation in workers' compensation injured peoples' cases.

On Friday, January 11, 2018, a video was finished and approved by me and it is now live. Please take a look at it. I hope you do like the reference to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. This was not just an off-handed reference but a genuine incorporation of my faith into my law practice.