Kristin Pierson
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Overview

Kristin Pierson

Kristin Pierson is a mediator and partner with Bendin Sumrall & Ladner, LLC in Atlanta, Georgia. She handles medical malpractice and professional negligence cases and general liability cases involving hospitals and other care providers.

Kristin received her law degree from the Charleston School of Law in Charleston, South Carolina, where she founded the Health Law & Bioethics Society and served as its president, creating the law school’s annual Bioethics Symposium. Kristin also served as a member of the Moot Court Board and the Charleston Law Review, and she worked with the Medical University of South Carolina to establish a collaborative teaching relationship between the medical school and the law school.

Kristin received her undergraduate degree in Health Law & Bioethics from Davidson College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. While at Davidson, she cofounded Davidson’s Bioethics Society and started The Ethical View, a bioethics publication of the Medical Humanities Department. She served on Davidson’s Medical Humanities Advisory Council to Ethics Committees and its Human Subjects Institutional Review Board. She also sat on the Ethics Committee at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina as a consultant and conducted an extensive two-year clinical internship in the Level 1 hospital’s Trauma Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department.

Prior to joining the firm, Kristin served as trauma & risk management research specialist at Lake Norman Regional Medical Center in North Carolina and then as research coordinator at Emory University School of Medicine, where she conducted neurosurgery research on traumatically brain-injured patients at Grady Memorial Hospital under then–chief of neurosurgery, Dr. Odette Harris.

Kristin was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and moved to Atlanta in 1996. She enjoys running and cooking Louisiana Cajun and Creole favorites, like gumbo, jambalaya, and etouffé.

Admitted to Practice

  • Georgia (2007)
  • Court of Appeals of Georgia
  • Supreme Court of Georgia
  • Northern District of Georgia

Education

  • Juris Doctor, Charleston School of Law (2007)
  • Bachelor of Arts, Davidson College (2002)

Professional or Trade Affiliations

  • DeKalb County Bar Association
  • Georgia Defense Lawyers Association
  • Georgia Society for Healthcare Risk Management
  • State Bar of Georgia

Publications

  • Author, Amicus Curiae Brief of Georgia Defense Lawyers Association, Stephens v. Castano-Castano, in the Georgia Court of Appeals advocating against the trial court’s exclusion of evidence that the plaintiff’s own attorney referred her to seek medical treatment from a particular treating physician as opposed to a referral in the normal course of the practice of medicine (2018).
  • Author, Amicus Curiae Brief of Georgia Defense Lawyers Association, Curles v. Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. and Kern v. Psychiatric Solutions, Inc., in the Georgia Court of Appeals advocating for dismissal of claims against psychiatric inpatient health care institutions for failure to “control” a patient who, upon her discharge, killed two individuals, as claims for professional negligence requiring an expert affidavit and subject to the five-year medical malpractice statute of repose (2017).
  • “Who Can Consent for an Incapacitated Patient? Important New Changes to Georgia’s Medical Consent Laws,” GSRHM Gazette (April 2011)
  • Coauthor, Amicus Curiae Brief of Georgia Defense Lawyers Association, Baker v. Wellstar, in the Georgia Court of Appeals advocating for ability of defense attorneys to communicate ex parte with plaintiffs’ treating healthcare providers (2010).
  • Kristin LeBlanc, Abandoning Patients and Clients: Where Medicine can Learn from the Law, Charleston Law Review 237 (Spring 2007).

Speaking Engagements

  • Annual presenter, “Update on Georgia Law”, Annual Medical Malpractice Liability seminars, Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia (since 2011)
  • Addressed labor and delivery nursing staff and medical staff in hospital mock trial involving birth trauma litigation to demonstrate charting/documentation, chain of command, and electronic fetal monitoring issues common to litigation.
  • Routinely presents to hospital clinical departments on litigation practice pointers.
Rates and Fees

Rates - Kristin Pierson

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Atlanta Rates 4hr Min.
2 Party Case: $325 per party; per hour
3 Party Case: $275 per party; per hour
4 Party Case: $250 per party; per hour
5+ Party Case: Flat Rate Available Upon Request

Travel time and expenses, including meals and lodging, billed separately and split equally among the parties at the Neutral's hourly rate.
Pre/Post Consultation & Document Review: Hourly Mediation/Arbitration Rate

Mediation Admin Fees
Atlanta Mediation Admin Fee - $300 per party

MEDIATION CANCELLATION POLICY

Mediations cancelled within 10 days of the mediation will be charged a cancellation fee of $500. However, mediations cancelled, rescheduled or settled within 24 hours of the mediation will be charged 4 hrs. of the Neutral's hourly rate . Cancellation fees shall be sent to the cancelling party unless otherwise agreed to by the parties.