Handling PI Cases Involving Amazon DSPs and How to Hold Amazon Accountable

Brian Mohs | Fried Goldberg LLC

Brian is a partner and trial attorney at Fried Goldberg LLC in Atlanta, Georgia, where he maintains a national practice representing victims of catastrophic commercial motor vehicle collisions and their families. He joined the firm in 2014 and became a partner in 2019.

• Education & Credentials

J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law (2008) and a B.S. in International Affairs from Georgia Tech (2002, highest honors); admitted before the State Bar of Georgia, the Georgia Supreme Court, the Georgia Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator since 2013.

• Recognition & Leadership

Board-certified trial attorney holding ATAA Board Certified and National Board of Trial Advocacy credentials, with Super Lawyers recognition and service on the ATAA Board of Regents.

• Professional Involvement

Member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice and its Trucking Litigation Group, the Georgia Tech Bar Association, the Atlanta Bar Association, and the National Association of Fire Investigators.

• Experience

Has obtained numerous seven-figure recoveries and some eight-figure recoveries for his clients; served as trial attorney in four jury trials, each resulting in a verdict for his clients; and tried a federal bench case arising from a collision between his client and a USPS vehicle that resulted in a $5.7 million judgment.

SESSION 1 – Analysis of Amazon DSP program including contract terms and policies | 2:00pm – 2:30pm

Amazon relaunched its Delivery Service Partner program in 2018 to run last-mile delivery in-house. This session works through the contract terms and policies governing DSP partners and tests the independent-contractor framing against how Amazon actually operates the program.

SESSION 2 – Strategies for deposing Amazon DSPs, delivery drivers, and Amazon | 2:30pm – 3:00pm

This session builds a deposition strategy across the three layers of a DSP case: the DSP entity, the driver, and Amazon. It shows how to use program documents to establish the control Amazon exercises over partners it calls independent.

Break | 3:00pm – 3:10pm

SESSION 3 – Theories of recovery and legal authority governing Amazon’s vicarious and direct liability in DSP cases | 3:10pm – 3:40pm

The closing session maps the theories of vicarious and direct liability against Amazon in DSP collision cases and includes exclusive footage from the firm’s 2024 Gwinnett County trial, showing how those theories were presented to a jury.