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About Lyle Warshauer
Lyle Griffin Warshauer is a founding partner at Warshauer Woodward Atkins, LLC, where she manages the firm's appellate practice and medical malpractice work. She received a Paralegal Certification from the National Center for Paralegal Training in 1987 and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in History from Furman University in 1987. She earned her Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in 1993 and was admitted to the Georgia Bar that same year, with subsequent admission in Tennessee and Alabama. Warshauer is recognized as both a gifted legal writer and strategist and a trial lawyer.
She served as Past President of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. She has argued cases involving railroad injury, product liability, birth injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death. Her notable matters include General Electric v. Joiner before the United States Supreme Court and a $5 million verdict in Burchfield v. CSX Transportation, Inc. Super Lawyers has recognized her annually from 2006 through 2023 and named her among the Top 50 Women in Georgia.
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Douglas Burchfield, a General Mills employee at the company's cereal plant in Covington, Georgia, suffered the partial amputation of both legs when a loaded railcar rolled loose and ran him over during a routine railcar switch in June 2005. He sued CSX Transportation, which had delivered the car, arguing it put the car into service with a defective handbrake. A first jury cleared CSX, but the 11th Circuit reversed after finding the trial court had improperly let CSX show the jury a reenactment video, and a retrial jury found Burchfield zero percent negligent, CSX 100 percent negligent, and awarded him $20,559,004. CSX appealed, and while that appeal was pending the parties settled the claim for $16 million, which CSX paid.
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