Achievements & Results ACHIEVEMENTS & RESULTS Reversal of Fee Award Against CSVL’s Lawyer Client CSVL Wins Summary Judgment in Apartment Fire Case Samaria Henry Wins Defense Verdict Doug MacKelcan and Skyler Wilson Assist Horizontal Property Regime Change its Governing Documents via Unique Statutory Procedure Doug MacKelcan and Skyler Wilson Successfully Defend Summary Judgment Grant to Association Board Member Clients on Appeal Lee Weatherly and Kierra Brown resolve premises liability case for 15% of demand Partner John Caldwell Successfully Advocates in Favor of the Trial Court’s Grant of Our Clients’ Motion for Summary Judgment in the Georgia Court of Appeals CSVL Chattanooga Obtains Summary Judgment in Federal Court Kopet and Phelan Obtain Favorable Trial Outcome for Local Chattanooga Business M. Wayne obtains Motion to Dismiss in Rutherford County, TN Insurance Company and Insured Dismissed from lawsuit EEOC Discrimination Charge Dismissed for Local Business Lee Weatherly and Kierra Brown obtain Summary Judgment on Premises Liability case Corporate Client and Employee Dismissed from lawsuit Case against National hotel chain settled for less than half of claimed damages Successful Risk Transfer by Brown and Weatherly FMLA Case against local fire department dismissed with prejudice Lee Weatherly and Kierra Brown resolved premises liability case for less than 4% of demand Kierra Brown and Lee Weatherly Successful in Risk Transfer Infectious Disease Specialist Dismissed From Suit With No Indemnity Payment Required Load More NEWS, EVENTS & PUBLICATIONS Copeland, Stair, Valz & Lovell, LLP Announces 2026 Partner, Of Counsel Elevations CSVL Attorneys Recognized in 2026 Best Lawyers® Selections Matt Wayne selected to join the Construction Lawyers Society of America Georgia’s New Tort Reform Bill and the Fight Over “Nuclear Verdicts” Kent T. Stair Named Public Member of South Carolina Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors CSVL attorneys selected to 2025 Georgia Super Lawyers & Rising Stars list ‘Avoid Someone Else’s Mistakes From Becoming Yours on Appeal,’ by Partner Skyler Wilson published in South Carolina Lawyer Magazine CSVL Chattanooga Celebrates 10 years Georgia Court of Appeals Affirms $15 million Verdict W. Matt Wayne selected as Pupillage Group Leader for the Brock-Cooper Inn of Court Georgia Court of Appeals Reverses Dismissal of EMTALA Claim No Negligent Credentialing Claim Against Staffing Agency Taylor Cary Selected to 2024 Rising Stars South Carolina List Georgia Court of Appeals Affirms Summary Judgment in Mental Health Case Georgia Court of Appeals Says No Vicarious Liability for Medical Student CSVL Announces Leadership Updates and Retirement of Named Partner CSVL Law Announces Six Attorneys Named to Super Lawyers List, Three Earn Rising Stars Recognition for 2024 Sarah Butler recognized in the Top 25 Attorneys of South Carolina 2023 Lee Weatherly Selected to IADC Trial Academy Faculty Kierra Brown Accepted into the National Retail and Restaurant Defense Association Load More
