After a week-long trial in Fulton County Superior Court, CCED litigators Rob Carlson, Chris Wilkerson and Lauren Miller achieved a $7 million jury verdict on behalf of their client, a minority shareholder in an Atlanta waste management company, for breach of fiduciary duty. The verdict rendered against the company’s majority shareholder ended a five-year battle that began as a Shareholder Inspection Demand proceeding brought in Gwinnett County Superior Court and ultimately led to the filing of the breach of fiduciary duty claims in Fulton County. The notable jury verdict awarded $5 million in punitive damages and over $1.9 million in compensatory damages, including more than $683,000 in attorney’s fees, marking the firm’s first in-person jury trial since the start of the pandemic with an extraordinary victory for CCED’s client.