Achievements & Results ACHIEVEMENTS & RESULTS EEOC Discrimination Charge Dismissed for Local Business Lee Weatherly and Kierra Brown obtain Summary Judgment on Premises Liability case Lee Weatherly and Kierra Brown resolve premises liability case for 15% of demand 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 Lee Weatherly and Courtney Wolf Secure Dismissal for Regional Hospital System Summary Judgment Obtained for Ob-Gyn Client Mark Lefkow and Team Prevail at Jury Trial for Lawyer Client CSVL Atlanta and Charleston Offices Recover $701,455 Wire Fraud Proceeds for Lawyer Client Melissa Bailey and Canon Corbitt Win Summary Judgment in DeKalb County Broderick Harrell and Taylor Johnson Secure Verdict Limiting Damages in Dekalb County Injury Trial CSVL Recovers $168,000 in Stolen ACH Funds for North Dakota Manufacturer Graham Thompson and Robert Norton Defend Plaintiff’s Attempt to Remand from Federal Court Angela Kopet obtains dismissal of her corporate client Gary Lovell and Blake Abbott win defense verdict for OB/GYN client Kathy Carlsten Secures Favorable Dismissal Load More NEWS, EVENTS & PUBLICATIONS 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 Copeland, Stair, Valz & Lovell, LLP Announces Partner Elevations Load More
