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Brandon L. Peak
Atlanta, Georgia

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BRANDON L. PEAK. B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 2001, The Citadel; Phi Kappa Phi; Beta Gamma Sigma; Battalion Commander; Honor Court Member. J.D., Magna Cum Laude, 2004, Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University. Recipient, George Waldo Woodruff Award of Excellence given annually to the first honor graduate; Walker P. Johnson, Jr. Memorial Award recognizing excellence in ethics and professionalism; Faculty Award for Most Outstanding Senior; Faculty Award for Outstanding Legal Writing; Dean R. Lawrence Dessem Merit Scholarship. Chief Justice, Mercer Law School Honor Council. Member, Brainerd Currie Honor Society; Intrastate Moot Court Team; Mercer Law Review. Articles Editor, Mercer Law Review. Finalist, Hugh Lawson III Memorial First Year Moot Court Competition. Author, Note, EEOC v. Waffle House, Inc.: Employers Beware the EEOC is now the Master of its Own Case, 54 MERCER L. REV. 1235 (2003). Student, London School of Economics and Political Science. Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert L. Vining, Jr., Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, 2004-2005. Member, State Bar of Georgia, Young Lawyers Division; Georgia Trial Lawyers Association; The American Association for Justice. Admitted to practice in Georgia.

Areas of Practice:: Personal Injury; Products Liability

Bar Admissions:: Georgia

Education:: Mercer University, Walter F. George School of Law, Macon, Georgia, 2004
J.D.
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Honors: Intrastate Moot Court Team
Honors: Finalist, Hugh Lawson III Memorial First Year Moot Court Competition
Honors: Chief Justice, Mercer Law School Honor Council
Law Review: Mercer Law Review, Articles Editor; The Citadel, 2001
B.S.
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Honors: Battalion Commander
Honors: Honor Court, Member

Published Works:: EEOC v. Waffle House, Inc.: Employers Beware the EEOC, "Master of its Own Case", 54 Mercer L. Rev. 1235, 2003

Honors and Awards:: Recipient, George Waldo Woodruff Award of Excellence Given Annually to the First Honor Graduate; Walker P. Johnson, Jr. Memorial Award Recognizing Excellence in Ethics and Professionalism; Faculty Award for Most Outstanding Senior; Faculty Award for Outstanding Legal Writing; Dean R. Lawrence Dessem Merit Scholarship

Professional Associations and Memberships:: Brainerd Currie Honor Society; Member; State Bar of Georgia, Young Lawyers Division; Member; Georgia Trial Lawyers Association; Member; The American Association for Justice; Member

Past Employment Positions:: Hon. Robert L. Vining, Jr., Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Law Clerk, 2004 - 2005

Fraternities/Sororities:: Phi Kappa Phi; Beta Gamma Sigma

$17,716,401 Verdict / Auto Product Liability / Ford Explorer Rear Restraint System / Lap Only Seat Belt

12/18/2009 Wheeler v. Ford Motor Company, et al., State Court, Clayton County, Georgia.

Plaintiffs Lynn and Douglas Wheeler won their design defect and failure to warn claims against Ford Motor Company relating to the 2002 Ford Explorer. On Christmas morning 2005, 58 year old Lynn Wheeler was on her way to church with her family. Lynn Wheeler was seated in the rear center seat of her son’s 2002 Ford Explorer, wearing the lap-only seat belt Ford installed for that seating position. Two of Lynn Wheeler’s grandchildren were in child seats on either side of her. As they entered a curve on Noah’s Ark Road, a 2-door Eagle Talon coupe driven by John C. Stanley crossed the centerline and struck the Explorer head-on.

$5,470,000 Verdict/Wrongful Death

10/23/09 Pitts v. A&G Trucking. Inc., et al., State Court of DeKalb County, Georgia.

Plaintiffs, four minor children, recovered for the death of their father, who was killed by a dump truck driver while the decedent was working as a "spotter" or "flag man" on the runway expansion at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport. According to eye-witnesses, the driver of the dump truck was talking on her cell phone or CB radio and was given a stop signal by the deceased.

$45,000,000 Settlement | Credit Insurance/Consumer Rights Class Action

10/31/07 Toole v. J.M.I.C. Life Insurance Company, Superior Court of Muscogee County, Georgia

Plaintiff Toole represented a class of people who prepaid J.M.I.C. Life Insurance Company premiums for credit life and disability insurance policies when they purchased vehicles. J.M.I.C. Life Insurance Company contractually promised to refund any unearned premium if class members paid off the insured loans before the five-year term had expired, but failed to do so when they paid off the insured loans early.

$105,500,000 Verdict | Defective Automobile

11/23/04 Flax v. Daimler Chrysler Corporation and Louis A. Stockell, Jr., Circuit Court for Davidson County, Tennessee

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