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Tracy Udunka-Dennis
McDonough, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 8 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School
Attorney Tracy Udunka is a Georgia native and has lived in the metro Atlanta area all of her life. She grew up in a Nigerian Household with her mother and father as well as four siblings. Her mother worked two jobs and attended nursing school before becoming a full time nurse for a local hospital in the Atlanta area. Her father worked tirelessly day after day as a mail handler. Having witnessed her mother and father work hard every day in order to make ends meet, she was stunned to see them come home and help her and her siblings...
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Terance Madden
Jonesboro, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 25 years of experience
Medical Malpractice, IP, Patents and Personal Injury
Vanderbilt University Law School
T. Madden & Associates, P.C. is Georgia’s premier Personal Injury Law Firm bringing civil justice to aggrieved victims by Turning Injury To Cash® since 1998. We have offices located in Atlanta, Jonesboro, and Augusta to serve as many victims of personal injury as possible. With over 50 years of combined experience, we have helped thousands for Georgians receive deserved reparations involving negligent activity. Let us protect your rights and turn your injury into cash. Whether you have already given a recorded statement to the insurance agency, we are here to protect you and bring justice. Call us at 833-PAID-123...
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Mr. Robert Neal Katz
Decatur, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 37 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
The University of Georgia School of Law and The University of Georgia School of Law
Robert Katz received his B.B.A. and Juris Doctor (Cum Laude) from the University of Georgia. He completed judicial clerkships in the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Superior Court of DeKalb County prior to entering private practice, and founding Katz Personal Injury Lawyers in 1994, where he is focuses on representing individuals in personal injury cases.
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Katherine Lee McArthur
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 44 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
University of North Carolina School of Law
Kathy McArthur is a top-rated personal injury attorney, trucking accident attorney, and medical malpractice attorney near me & has obtained multiple successful MULTI-million dollar recoveries for clients.
Her firm ONLY handles SERIOUS bodily injury cases, wrongful death claims, medical misdiagnosis in GA and other states. The Firm limits its INJURY cases to: wrongful death cases, serious bodily injuries, like scarring, burn injuries, dislocated or broken bones, blindness, loss of hearing, organic brain damage, spinal cord injury or neck fracture.
Very substantial awards have also been obtained by her law firm (at trials or being settled just before trial...
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Charles Scholle
Decatur, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 29 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
University of Georgia School of Law
As the founding partner at Scholle Law, Charles Scholle has practiced law in the Atlanta metro area and throughout Georgia, for nearly three decades. He has recovered millions of dollars for his clients. He has also earned the highest preeminent ratings from his peers for both excellence in legal practice and ethical standards. Scholle Law is dedicated to injury practice areas including, serious personal injury, traumatic brain injury, wrongful death and motor vehicle accidents. We have a reputation for excellence and dedication to our clients which is backed up by their reviews of their experience with our firm.
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Casey W. Stevens
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Georgia State University College of Law
Casey W. Stevens worked in the insurance claims management business full time while attending Georgia State College of Law. Upon graduation in 1998, Attorney Stevens went to work for a large Atlanta insurance defense firm. In 2001, he started his own plaintiff's firm, representing the injured. Mr. Stevens has handled hundreds of injury cases, resulting in millions of dollars of settlements for his clients.
Casey Stevens handles ONLY personal injury cases that result from someone else's negligence. Our firm specializes in accident law, including automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, pedestrians, bicycles, ATV's, boats, small watercraft, and golf carts. ...
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Robert J. Fleming
Decatur, GA Medical Malpractice Lawyer with 29 years of experience
Medical Malpractice, Asbestos, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Emory University School of Law
Rob Fleming is a partner in Katz & Fleming LLC. His practice is focused on medical malpractice, dental malpractice, serious personal injury and business litigation. With over 25 years of experience, he has had great success in the courtroom. He has achieved numerous multi-million dollar recoveries for his clients and has several very large verdicts.
After starting his legal career defending doctors and large hospitals, Mr. Fleming now exclusively represents Plaintiffs who have been injured by the negligence of medical professionals such as doctors and dentists. He also specializes in handling commission cases and represents employees who have earned commissions...
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Graham Scofield
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 15 years of experience
(404) 939-9470
691 John Wesley Dobbs Avenue NE
Suite C-04
Atlanta, GA 30321
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Employment, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Emory University School of Law
I strive to level the playing field for his clients. That way, my clients receive the same skilled representation as the powerful individuals, corporations, and employers that harmed them.
I am a former defense lawyer. Therefore, I know how the other side evaluates personal injury cases and employment disputes. I'll use that knowledge and experience to help you win a great result. Just ask my colleagues and former clients.
I treat my clients like they’re my family. That means I give every case the same degree of care that it would receive if it involved a member of my household. Additionally, I...
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Robin Frazer Clark
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Lawyer with 36 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Insurance Claims, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Emory University School of Law
ROBIN FRAZER CLARK
Robin Frazer Clark is the owner and founder of the law firm of Robin Frazer Clark, P.C., and has practiced law in Georgia for 31 years. Ms. Clark devotes her practice exclusively to plaintiff’s personal injury. Her motto is “A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats.”
Ms. Clark was sworn in as the Fiftieth President of the State Bar of Georgia on June 2, 2012, only the second woman ever to serve as President of the State Bar of Georgia and served as President of the 45,000-member association in 2012-2013. One of Ms. Clark’s initiatives she created...
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Lindsey S. Macon
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Lawyer with 9 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Duke University School of Law
Lindsey Macon is a personal injury attorney and law partner at the McArthur Law Firm. She litigates wrongful death and serious personal injury litigation. Among her many trials, she was on the McArthur Team that received a record-setting $12 million medical malpractice verdict in Houston County GA. She was the impetus for opening the Atlanta office and oversees that law firm location.
Lindsey specializes in complex commercial litigation, including automobile and trucking accidents, construction negligence cases, negligent security & premises liability claims, and medical malpractice, that includes dentists, nurses and chiropractors.
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Mitchell Feldman
(877) 946-8293
1201 Peachtree Street NE
Second Floor
Atlanta, GA 30361
Medical Malpractice, Employment, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Emory University School of Law
Mitchell Lloyd Feldman Esq., Experienced Trial Lawyer, 23 Years Litigation Experience.
For over 2 decades, MITCHELL LLOYD FELDMAN, ESQ., has been a Civil Litigator, who has worked on the defense and the plaintiff side of cases. Over the last 10 years, Mr. Feldman has focused his practice representing employees and individuals in personal injury, workers' comp and employment claims.
Mr. Feldman’s bench and jury trial experience includes cases involving the following: Wage and Hour Claims, Personal Injuries and Automobile Accidents, Workers’ Compensation, Employment Contracts and Whistleblower Actions, and one Criminal case. Mr. Feldman has handled...
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Edward M. Wynn
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Insurance Claims, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
Edward M. Wynn is an associate attorney with Slappey & Sadd, LLC. His practice focuses exclusively on catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases. He has successfully represented hundreds of personal injury victims in cases involving trucking and automobile wrecks, premises liability claims, medical malpractice, and intentional torts. Edward has also successfully handled numerous appeals before both the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Georgia.
After graduating from the Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law in 2007, Edward was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia that same year. During law school, he received the Frank...
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Jay Sadd
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 37 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Insurance Claims and Personal Injury
Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
Jay Sadd is a founding partner of Slappey & Sadd LLC in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Sadd has over 30 years of professional legal experience and is dedicated to representing individuals who have been seriously injured and families of those who have lost loved ones due to the negligence or wrongdoing of others. Mr. Sadd has been lead counsel on cases in which his client was awarded or recovered $22,000,000; $18,000,000; $17,000,000, and $10,250,000, along with many other confidential settlements. These high-damage cases are often the result of car accidents, truck accidents, medical malpractice, unsafe premises and the like.
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Brandon Hornsby
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Lawyer with 30 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Civil Rights, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Emory University School of Law and Florida State University College of Law
For almost two decades, Brandon Hornsby has dedicated his legal career to protecting the rights of people. Known as a "fearless advocate" and "champion of the underdog," Atlanta lawyer Brandon Hornsby has extensive experience representing the victims of serious personal injury, civil rights violations, and whistleblowers.
More than anything else, Hornsby is known for getting results.
At the outset of his career, Hornsby served as a state and federal prosecutor. Hornsby quickly developed a reputation for excellence in the courtroom, particularly his examination of witnesses and his moving opening and closing arguments.
During his public service, in which Hornsby handled many of Atlanta's...
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Carl Lietz
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 29 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Products Liability and White Collar Crime
Vermont Law School and Florida State University
Carl Lietz is a partner with the Atlanta trial practice firm of Finch McCranie, LLP, where he specializes in defending individuals and entities in federal criminal matters in the white collar area. Early on in his career, Carl clerked for two federal judges and then worked as a trial attorney in the Federal Defender Office in Atlanta. In the Defender Office, Carl tried a significant number of federal criminal cases, litigated hundreds of evidentiary and other issues, and handled sentencing hearings on a regular basis.
Since leaving the Defender Office over a decade ago, Carl has continued to devote...
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Holly K. Stephens
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Lawyer with 3 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
The University of Georgia School of Law
Holly K. Stephens grew up in a family that focused on being an attorney. She followed her mother's footsteps by attending the University of North Carolina for undergraduate school, before obtaining her Juris Doctor (Law) degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2021. Her first job as a Georgia attorney was working as a public defender in Brunswick, GA. Being in court constantly was part and parcel of this job.
Ms. Stephens is a member of the Georgia Bar, and practices out of the McArthur Law Firm's Atlanta Office location. This well-known personal injury law firm has...
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Christopher M. Simon
Conyers, GA Medical Malpractice Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
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Michael Geoffroy
Conyers, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
The University of Georgia School of Law
I am proud to be a personal injury lawyer. Others laugh at lawyers as greedy people or "ambulance chasers." But I am proud to represent my clients and my hometown. My firm believes in leading our clients though difficult times. We also believe in leading the community. That is why we all dedicate our time and donate our money to so many local causes. I have been Chairman of the Newton County Boys and Girls Club when we fought to open the doors and change the lives of kids in our town. I have also been President of the Young...
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Jonathan P Hayes
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Lawyer with 24 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
Goldstein & Hayes, PC - Atlanta Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice & Wrongful Death Attorneys
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Stephen Mark Ozcomert
Decatur, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 33 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Emory University School of Law
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Torris J. Butterfield
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 27 years of experience
(404) 522-5056
The Hurt Building, 50 Hurt Plaza, S.E., Suite 1120
Atlanta, GA 30303
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
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Richard W. Hendrix
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 47 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Products Liability and White Collar Crime
Emory University
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Daniel J. Moriarty
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Lawyer with 12 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice and Personal Injury
University of Texas - Austin
For the first six years of his law practice, Daniel defended doctors, nurses and hospitals in medical-malpractice cases. He decided to switch sides and represent individuals hurt or killed by the negligence of others. Since then, he has secured millions of dollars for his clients.
Daniel taught high school English as a Second Language before becoming a lawyer. He graduated with a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. He earned his J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.
Daniel lives in the Virginia-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta with his wife Casey, his daughter June, and his son Branch. They attend...
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Thomas Pleasant
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 28 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice and Nursing Home
Attorney Thomas W. Pleasant is licensed to practice in North Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, and Tennessee. He focuses his practice on helping victims of catastrophic injury and their families in wrongful death matters. He assists in complicated nursing home abuse and neglect cases as well as medical malpractice, birth injuries, and traumatic brain injury cases. He is AV Preeminent Rated by Martindale-Hubbell for his high standards of client care. He is also listed in Super Lawyers®, has years of experience in jury and medical trials, and is committed to doing everything he can to achieve full and fair compensation for all...
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Michael A. Keller
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Georgia State University College of Law
Michael has over eight years of experience handling every type of injury litigation claim. Michael solely represents people who were seriously injured or the family members of loved ones who have died. Michael has successfully litigated all types of cases throughout his career, including injuries caused by machine failures, product failures, motor vehicle wrecks, trucking wrecks, drunk drivers, unsafe premises, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, and all other types of negligence claims.
Michael graduated Magna Cum Laude from Georgia State University College of Law in 2012. Following graduation, Michael joined a large Atlanta litigation defense firm. He...
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Hon. James G. Tunison
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 36 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Florida State University College of Law and Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
James G. Tunison, Jr joined Slappey & Sadd, LLC in 2020 as a partner and opened the firms’ South Georgia office in Valdosta.
Before coming to the firm, Jim served as a judge in the Superior Court of Georgia since 2009, after being elected by the citizens of the five county Southern Judicial Circuit. He was re-elected without opposition for two additional terms.
As judge, he presided over civil and felony criminal trials and heard non-jury bench trials and hearings. In his first year on the court, Judge Tunison developed and implemented the Lowndes County Pre-trial Release Program. In 2016, he became...
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Daniel M. Epstein M.D.
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Lawyer with 34 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Harvard Law School
Daniel M. Epstein, M.D. joined Slappey & Sadd, LLC in 2010. Prior to joining Slappey & Sadd, Dan represented physician and hospital clients. He most recently held a position of a partner with a medical malpractice defense firm from 2001 to 2010. At Slappey & Sadd, he represents individuals and their families in cases of serious death as a result of medical negligence, car accidents, defective products, defective premises, and other acts of negligence.
Dan is a native of Atlanta. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, followed by a law degree from Harvard Law...
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Michael L. Thompson
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 5 years of experience
Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
University System of Georgia - University of Georgia
Prior to joining the McArthur Law Firm, Michael began his career as an associate with a mid-sized litigation firm focusing his practice on liability defense work. In this job, he representing individuals, insurance carriers, and government entities in personal injury litigation.
A native of Toccoa, Georgia, the Georgia lawyer attended undergrad at the University of Georgia where he graduated with honors. Following undergrad, Michael also attended law school at the University of Georgia where he graduated cum laude.
During law school, Michael served as a summer clerk to the Honorable John J. Ellington of the Georgia Court of Appeals prior to...
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Daniel A. Ragland
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 36 years of experience
(866) 526-5891
South Terraces, Suite 425
115 Perimeter Center Place, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30346
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Insurance Claims, Personal Injury and Products Liability
The University of Georgia School of Law and The University of Georgia School of Law
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Frank Chao
Decatur, GA Medical Malpractice Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Products Liability
Duke University School of Law
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Jonathan Ross Brockman
Fayetteville, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 34 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
Jonathan R. Brockman is a Georgia attorney whose practice is dedicated exclusively to representing individuals injured or killed by the negligence of others. He has practiced as an injury lawyer for over 20 years. Mr. Brockman has earned a reputation as a skilled trial attorney. He has successfully tried injury cases in many counties in metro Atlanta and throughout the state of Georgia.
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Matt Wetherington
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 14 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
In the courtroom, Matt Wetherington takes on powerful defendants in high stakes litigation and wins. He fights for victims of bad drivers, defective products, corporate malfeasance, and other reckless conduct. Through individual and class action lawsuits, Matt’s clients have won record-setting verdicts and settlements.
In 2014, Matt was one of the youngest attorneys ever selected by the Daily Report as “On the Rise,” an annual list of forty attorneys who have made a difference and will continue to do so in the future. The following year, Matt was inducted into the ALM Verdicts Hall of Fame for receiving one of the...
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Oto Ekpo
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Emory University School of Law
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Steven Salcedo
Decatur, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Animal, Personal Injury and Products Liability
University of California - Davis
Steven helps people who have suffered serious personal injuries in Georgia, as a result of auto accidents, airplane accidents, premises liability (slip and fall, trip and fall, attractive nuisance), traumatic brain injury, product liability, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, professional malpractice, whistleblower, dangerous property, consumer fraud, nursing home abuse, insurance company bad faith, spinal cord injuries and much more.
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Susan J. Levy
Decatur, GA Medical Malpractice Lawyer with 36 years of experience
Medical Malpractice, Insurance Defense and Products Liability
Emory University School of Law
Susan J. Levy is the founding partner of Levy & Pruett. A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Susan received her BA from Cornell University and graduated with distinction from Emory Law School. After four years with the Attorney General's office and two years in private practice, Susan started her own firm, while continuing to represent the Georgia DOT as a Special Assistant Attorney General. An AV-rated lawyer, she has enjoyed a remarkable record in court, winning almost every case she has taken to trial.
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Lee Pruett
Decatur, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney
Medical Malpractice, Insurance Defense and Products Liability
Georgia State University College of Law
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Nicole Archambault
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Lawyer
Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and White Collar Crime
Georgia State University College of Law
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Norman Marshall Sawyer Jr
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Lawyer with 21 years of experience
(678) 956-8500
Atlanta Office 1776 Briarcliff Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30306
Medical Malpractice, Insurance Claims, Personal Injury and Products Liability
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Norm Sawyer’s early career was spent representing the clients of large insurance companies, so he offers a unique perspective to his clients and the Litner + Deganian team. Norm knows how the insurance companies think and act, which can be a big advantage in a personal injury case. He also has a substantial amount of experience working with mediators as well as in state and federal courts.
“Insurance companies have so many clients that there’s very little interaction and a lot of rigid processes,” Norm commented. “I wanted to impact people’s lives, not just their insurance rates.” Norm met Arman Deganian...
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David F. Walbert
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 51 years of experience
Medical Malpractice, Environmental, Personal Injury and White Collar Crime
Case Western Reserve University
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David Hanson
Atlanta, GA Medical Malpractice Attorney with 15 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice and Personal Injury
In 2023, David was part of the trial team that obtained a $38.6 million verdict in a complex medical malpractice case. In 2022, he was lead counsel in two medical malpractice jury trials and obtained jury verdicts for his clients in each. In addition to trial work, David is routinely retained to represent clients in complex appellate matters with outstanding results. David has argued, and won, cases at the Georgia Supreme Court, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Georgia Court of Appeals.
Before forming starting his own firm, David practiced for a decade at the premier medical malpractice...