USA – GEORGIA Trends and Developments Contributed by: Michael Weiss and Jamie Carroll Carroll & Weiss Carroll & Weiss is a litigation boutique whose three partners collectively have more than 90 years’ ex - perience with complex, high value litigation. Each spent the first half of his career at multinational firms before forming this firm over 15 years ago, with a mix of clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to smaller corporations. Though based in Atlanta, Carroll & Weiss attorneys maintain a national prac - tice and have appeared in courts in more than 35
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states. The firm’s specialties include: product liability defence, from asbestos to consumer products and everything in between; toxic tort litigation, includ - ing defending manufacturers and sellers of “forever chemicals” in individual, mass, and class actions; and general counsel and commercial litigation work, advising smaller but growing companies with few or no in-house counsel on issues involving risk, litiga - tion, insurance, and federal and state regulations.
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Michael Weiss focuses his practice on product liability defence and complex commercial litigation. Before becoming a lawyer, Mike worked as a
Jamie Carroll was formerly with King & Spalding, where he served as an equity partner. He practised there for 20 years before co-founding Carroll & Weiss. He has appeared as lead counsel in more than 35 states in
crime and courts reporter for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. He attended law school at Emory University as a Woodruff Fellow before joining King & Spalding’s tort litigation team in 2003. He formed Carroll & Weiss in 2011. Aside from his primary work in product liability defence and other litigation, he won the Judge Clarence F. Seeliger Local Justice Award for his efforts to obtain legal status for a survivor of human sex trafficking. He also teaches a course on discovery as an adjunct professor at Emory University.
individual, mass, and class action cases. He currently serves as national product liability and toxic tort counsel for numerous companies. Jamie graduated from Princeton University before serving on active duty for four years as a Captain in the U.S. Army. While on active duty, he earned a Master’s degree before obtaining his Law degree from the University of Pennsylvania after leaving the service.
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