Handling PI Cases Involving Amazon DSPs and How to Hold Amazon Accountable
Brian is a Partner and National Trucking Trial Attorney at Fried Goldberg LLC in Atlanta, Georgia. Brian’s practice is focused on catastrophic commercial motor vehicles collisions across the country, and he has become a subject matter expert on handling cases against Amazon. Brian is licensed in Georgia and South Carolina and has successfully litigated cases in 15 different states
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Program Summary
Amazon engineered its Delivery Service Partner program so the company sits one contract away from every collision its delivery network causes. The agreements label DSP partners independent third-party contractors, and that label does real work, built to keep Amazon off the verdict form. As last-mile volume exploded after the program’s 2018 relaunch, the collisions followed, and so did the litigation testing whether the independent-contractor structure holds. Personal injury attorneys who accept that structure at face value surrender liability theories before discovery opens. This session analyzes the actual DSP contract terms and program policies, maps the day-to-day operational control Amazon exercises over drivers it calls independent, and lays out a deposition strategy for DSPs, delivery drivers, and Amazon itself. It pairs theories of vicarious and direct recovery with exclusive footage from the firm’s 2024 Gwinnett County trial. Attendees leave able to dismantle the contractor defense and build liability against Amazon directly.
What Will You Learn
Attorneys will learn how Amazon’s DSP contract terms and program policies operate, how to depose DSPs and drivers, and the theories governing Amazon’s vicarious and direct liability.
What Will You Gain
Attorneys will gain practical strategies for holding Amazon accountable in DSP collision cases, supported by exclusive footage from the firm’s 2024 Gwinnett County trial against Amazon.
Key topics to be discussed:
- DSP Program
How Amazon built its Delivery Service Partner program for last-mile delivery. - Contract Analysis
Analysis of the contract terms and policies governing Amazon DSP partners. - Driver Realities
Day-to-day realities an Amazon DSP delivery driver experiences on the job. - Deposition Strategy
Strategies for deposing Amazon DSPs, delivery drivers, and Amazon itself. - Liability Theories
Theories of recovery for Amazon’s vicarious and direct liability in DSP cases. - Trial Footage
Exclusive videos from the firm’s 2024 Gwinnett County trial against Amazon.
This course is co-sponsored with myLawCLE.
Date / Time: July 24, 2026
- 2:00 pm – 3:40 pm Eastern
- 1:00 pm – 2:40 pm Central
- 12:00 pm – 1:40 pm Mountain
- 11:00 am – 12:40 pm Pacific
Closed-captioning available
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Brian Mohs | Fried Goldberg LLC
Brian is a Partner and National Trucking Trial Attorney at Fried Goldberg LLC in Atlanta, Georgia. Brian’s practice is focused on catastrophic commercial motor vehicles collisions across the country, and he has become a subject matter expert on handling cases against Amazon. Brian is licensed in Georgia and South Carolina and has successfully litigated cases in 15 different states. Brian became Board Certified in Truck Accident Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in 2020 following a rigorous vetting process and a six-hour examination. Brian is a Ramblin Wreck from Georgia Tech (graduated in 2002) and a Georgia State University Panther (J.D. in 2008). Brian and his wife, Katie, live in Johns Creek, Georgia with their two children, Oliver (7) and Adeline (6), and their 2 dogs. They have their hands full.
Agenda
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.
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