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Casey W. Stevens
Dawsonville, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Insurance Claims, 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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David M. Van Sant
Gainesville, GA Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Georgia State University College of Law
Attorney David M. Van Sant provides representation for various personal injury related claims throughout Atlanta, GA. If you have been injured in a car accident, due to the negligence of another, nursing home abuse injury or any other personal injury related claim then you should consult with an attorney who will be able to seek the compensation you deserve.
Atlanta personal injury attorney David Van Sant will be able to take a look at your case, provide you with the best possible legal advice and guide you through the legal process. When it comes to seeking the compensation you deserve,...
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Rustin L. Smith
Gainesville, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 14 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Appeals and Personal Injury
Emory University School of Law
As a partner in one of the largest law firms in North Georgia, Rustin defended insurance companies and large businesses before co-founding Smith Hulsey. He has handled cases in both federal and state courts, appearing in U.S. District Courts and counties throughout Georgia. He has argued before the Supreme Court of Georgia, and litigated appeals in the Georgia Court of Appeals and U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit. Rustin graduate magna cum laude from the University of Georgia before attending Emory University School of Law, where he was selected for the Dean’s List, received the Dean’s Award, and was recommended...
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Christopher M. Simon
Gainesville, GA Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
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Nancy Glenn
Gainesville, GA Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 37 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
Emory University School of Law
Nancy brings more than 25 years of litigation experience to SG&G clients. She has won cases for injured workers at the trial and all appellate levels through the Georgia Court of Appeals. Nancy is also an experienced mediator of workers’ compensation claims where her experience as a defense lawyer and a claimant’s lawyer proves invaluable to obtaining settlements in difficult claims.
After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Georgia and the top 10% of her class at Emory Law, she began her career at Alston & Bird of Atlanta. At A&B, Nancy worked in a variety of areas, including:...
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Oliver R. Ladd
Gainesville, GA Workers' Compensation Lawyer
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
University System of Georgia - University of Georgia
Attorney Oliver Ladd represents injured and disabled workers throughout North Georgia with a focus on Worker’s Compensation claims. Oliver and his team will fight on your behalf to get the maximum benefits you are owed under the law.
Too often, injured workers give up the fight for what they are owed because the system is so stressful and confusing. Don’t let it happen to you. Call Oliver today for a free consultation at (770) 534-5265.
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Michael Casper
Gainesville, GA Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 53 years of experience
Workers' Comp, Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
University of Georgia and University System of Georgia - University of Georgia
I am a Gainesville attorney with offices located at 418 Candler Street. I have been serving clients across Georgia for more than 40 years. My areas of practice include general law practice, accidents and job injuries, workers compensation, personal injury litigation, and Social Security disability. I have a special interest in accidents involving traumatic brain injuries and am a member of the Brain Injury Association of Georgia. To help me resolve legal issues out of court, I am a Certified Civil Mediator for alternative dispute resolution.
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Tristan Blain Morrison
Alpharetta, GA Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp and Personal Injury
Univ of Georgia School of Law
Mr. Morrison leads an award winning team of injury and accident attorneys, serving the greater Atlanta area. He is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale Hubbell and has been described as one of the best accident attorneys in Georgia. Mr. Morrison's team handles trucking accidents, car, motorcycle, and pedestrian accidents, wrongful death claims, work accidents / workers' compensation, personal injury, social security disability claims, traumatic brain injuries, and other catastrophic accident lawsuits.
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Benjamin Y Gerber
Athens, GA Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp
The George Washington University Law School
Take Back Your Life After a Work Injury
I am an experienced trial attorney with a legal practice dedicated to helping Georgia workers injured on the job. I am also a founding partner of Gerber & Holder Workers' Compensation Attorneys law firm in Atlanta, Georgia.
After my internship in D.C., I moved back to Georgia in 2001. I started my career working for insurance defense firms. While trying cases on their behalf, I learned insurance companies' defense strategies and motivations.
In 2004, I was recruited to a law firm that represented plaintiffs in personal injury and workers’ compensation cases.
In 2010, I...
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Kenneth Allen Parker
Buford, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 30 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Bankruptcy, Personal Injury and Probate
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School
Ken has practiced bankruptcy law for over 28 years in Georgia. Ken also is a part time Magistrate Court Judge for Gwinnett County. Ken is married with 2 children who attended Mill Creek High School and Georgia Tech. Ken served as President of the Mill Creek Band Booster Club and President of the Mill Creek Athletic Association. Ken is currently currently serving as the Director of the Gainesville Aid Project (GAP).
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Beth Gearhart
Royston, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp
University of Arizona
Beth Gearhart is a Georgia workers' compensation attorney representing injured workers in Atlanta, Georgia and throughout the entire State of Georgia. Gearhart Law Group is a work comp law firm providing counsel to Georgia workers with work injuries and located online - www.workcompgeorgia.com/georgia-work-comp-attorney
Why Gearhart Law Group - http://www.workcompgeorgia.com/why-gearhart-law-group/
Work Comp Q&A - http://www.workcompgeorgia.com/common-work-injuries/
Atlanta Workers' Compensation Information - http://www.workcompgeorgia.com/atlanta-work-comp-attorney/
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David Brauns
Duluth, GA Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 19 years of experience
(678) 329-9169
3175 Satellite Blvd
Bldg 600 Suite 330
Duluth, GA 30096
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Georgia State University College of Law
My firm is a modern law practice built to take on large corporations and insurance companies who refuse to acknowledge their wrongful acts. I began my career defending those companies with the aspiration of learning how they defended serious personal injuries so I could one day start my own practice to oppose them. All too often I witnessed corporations and insurance companies fight in cases where they were squarely in the wrong. My desire to obtain justice for the injured led me to establish my own law practice. I now dedicate 100% of my practice to representing people hurt by...
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Timothy Minthorn Klob
Grayson, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 30 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp
Georgia State University College of Law
Workers compensation attorney with 25 years of litigation experience. Mediator and former Gwinnett County Magistrate Court Judge. U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) with 25 years of military service.
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R. Alan Cleveland
Athens, GA Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Animal and Personal Injury
Alan Cleveland grew up in Gwinnett County and has devoted his entire legal career to serving the county’s residents.
Alan knew from an early age that he wanted to be a trial lawyer. He first worked and began raising a family after graduating from the University of Georgia, where he received a degree in journalism and public relations.
At the age of 33, he enrolled at John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, clerked for Georgia Supreme Court Justice Hugh Thompson one summer, and three years later graduated summa cum laude.
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Thomas Reuben Burnside III
Athens, GA Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 33 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
I am an experienced and dependable Attorney at Burnside Law Firm. For over 25 years, I have been dedicated to providing outstanding representation for injured clients. My practice focuses on Motor Vehicle Accidents, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Neglect and Abuse, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Workers’ Compensation, and Wrongful Death. I have been successful in hundreds of cases and have recovered millions of dollars for my clients. I am committed to helping you and your family recover the compensation you need and deserve.
I received my B.S. from Presbyterian College, and my J.D. from the Mercer University, Walter F. George School of...
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Jonathan C. Ginsberg
Atlanta, GA Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 38 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp and Social Security Disability
Tulane University-LA
Jonathan Ginsberg represents honest, hardworking men and women seeking debt relief under the United States Bankruptcy Code, or who are seeking benefits from the Social Security disability system.
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Gary Martin Hays
Gainesville, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 35 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Mercer University
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Gary Martin Hays' legal accomplishments span more than 35 years of practice, and he frequently lectures to other attorneys on the best way to handle personal injury and workers' compensation claims. Other accomplishments include:
Membership in the prestigious Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a society limited to those attorneys who have received a verdict or settlement of at least $2 million. He is a multi-year recipient of the Super Lawyer’s designation, as voted on by other lawyers in Georgia. The American Trial Lawyers' Association named him one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Georgia since 2007. Lawdragon included him as...
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Rahul Sheth
Atlanta, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 12 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp and Insurance Defense
Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
I am a litigation partner at Bovis, Kyle, Burch & Medlin representing employers and insurers in defending workers' compensation claims. I handle claims at all stages in the claim, including at inception, through litigation, hearings, and appeals, mediations, and settlement.
I also specialize in subrogation recovery on behalf of my clients, protecting their interests by asserting liens in third-party fault scenarios. I have also gained experience in handling Occupational Accident claims and contingent liability scenarios for employers who choose to obtain occupational accident insurance for their employees.
I graduated from the University of Georgia in 2008 with a Bachelor of...
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Angel A. Figueredo
Roswell, GA Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp and Personal Injury
Seton Hall University School of Law
Angel Figueredo attended Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ where he received his B.S. in Accounting and graduated cum laude in 1981. Mr. Figueredo became a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant in New Jersey where he worked as an accountant for a CPA firm and Fortune 500 companies for 16 years until he graduated from law school in 1997.
He attended law school at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, NJ and obtained his J.D in May of 1997. Immediately after graduating from law school he began working as a personal injury and workers’ compensation attorney,...
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Jonathan Smith
Alpharetta, GA Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 14 years of experience
(470) 260-9417
2650 Holcomb Bridge Road
Suite 620
Alpharetta, GA 30022
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp and Personal Injury
Georgia State University College of Law
Jonathan J. Smith joined the Law Offices of Morrison & Hughes after several years of working as an insurance defense attorney. Using the knowledge he obtained in defending employers and insurance companies, Jonathan has dedicated his practice for the last several years to assisting injured and aggrieved people in recovering all benefits to which they are entitled under Georgia Law.
Jonathan attended Dickinson College, where he received his undergraduate degree in History in 2000. Later, he was awarded his J.D. from Georgia State University, where he was Vice President of the Moot Court Board, and received an award for Best Overall...
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Jeffery Dickerson
Canton, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 23 years of experience
Workers' Comp, Business, Criminal Defense and DUI & DWI
Mercer University
Founding attorney Jeffrey L. Dickerson began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in the Houston Judicial Circuit. During that time, he was responsible for prosecuting all types of crimes, ranging from shoplifting to homicide. Later in 2002, he was appointed to Houston County’s “Narcotics and Organized Crime” litigation team, where he gained valuable experience handling drug crimes ranging from simple possession to trafficking. Attorney Dickerson now runs his own firm in metro Atlanta dedicated solely to DUI and drug possession defense, and he has successfully obtained not-guilty verdicts in DUI-Per Se, DUI Less-Safe, and in various VGCSA cases...
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Christopher John York
Duluth, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 33 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp and Personal Injury
Emory University and Emory University School of Law
Attorney Chris York is committed to helping clients navigate a complicated legal system. As an experienced attorney, he is always focused on helping clients obtain outcomes that are justified. He focuses on giving them the peace of mind they deserve. At our law firm in Duluth, GA, we genuinely care about every client we work with. His personal interests include running, watching tennis matches, and being a dedicated father to three teenagers, a boy and two girls.
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Derek Hays
Lawrenceville, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 27 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School
Derek Hays is an experienced trial attorney dedicated to representing individuals and families impacted by tragic events such as car accidents, catastrophic injuries, and medical malpractice. If you've been injured and you have questions, consultations are always free. Derek Hays Law also does virtual consultations for your convenience. Call 404-777-HURT (4878) to speak with Derek Hays.
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R. David Sammons Jr
Alpharetta, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Georgia State University College of Law
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Jeremiah T Van Dora
Athens , GA Workers' Compensation Attorney
Workers' Comp, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School
Jeremiah T. Van Dora joined The Van Dora Law Firm in 2012 as an attorney focusing his practice in the areas of workers' compensation, and personal injury. While in law school at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, Mr. Van Dora was a member of the Mock Trial Team. He also received the CALI Award for the highest grade in Workers' Compensation, as well as the Dean's Award for community service. Mr. Van Dora also served as a law clerk for the Appellate Division of the Georgia State Board of Workers' Compensation while in law school. Mr. Van Dora attended...
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Thomas Maddox
Roswell, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 40 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Atlanta Law School and Woodrow Wilson School of Law
Mr. Maddox is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, and was admitted as a member of the State Bar of Georgia in 1984. Mr. Maddox has represented hundreds of individuals for serious injury and wrongful death matters, divorce, child custody claims, contempt, and other family law matters. Mr. Maddox is admitted to practice before all State, Superior, and Federal District Courts of Georgia, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Maddox is also a State registered Mediator and Arbitrator and has been rated by Martindale Hubbell as 'A-V' for the...
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John Earle Morrison Jr
Norcross, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp and Personal Injury
Georgia State University
John E. Morrison, Jr. was born and raised in Marietta, Georgia. He graduated Georgia State University in 2003 with magna cum laude honors. He obtained his law degree with Honors in Litigation from Georgia State University. Upon graduation, Mr. Morrison practiced liability and workers’ compensation law for one of the largest claimant law firms in East Georgia. He has never worked for an insurance company or a defense law firm, and he never will. He enjoys helping injured parties receive the benefits to which they are entitled. Mr. Morrison is fluent in Spanish and...
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Kirby G. Smith
Atlanta, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney
(844) 454-7529
4488 North Shallowford Road
Suite 105
Atlanta, GA 30338
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Business, Employment and Social Security Disability
Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
Mr. Kirby G. Smith is the Founding Partner of the Kirby G. Smith Law Firm. Mr. Smith’s passion to work in the employment law field began before he even attended law school, working as an office manager and legal assistant for an employment firm. Over the years, Mr. Smith has accumulated substantial legal experience in the employment field, working for employment law firms for many years. Mr. Smith has seen the inner-workings of many different types of employers, as his past work experience has taken him through both the federal government’s Department of Housing and Urban Development and the United...
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H. Michael Bray
Canton, GA Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 54 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
The University of Georgia School of Law
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Jodi Brenner Ginsberg
ATLANTA, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 37 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp
Georgia State University
I have been a workers compensation law attorney in the Atlanta area since 1988. After graduating from Georgia State University Law School, I worked as an associate for a downtown Atlanta insurance defense firm. There I learned how insurance companies defend workers comp. claims and I was able to observe dozens of claimants' lawyers - both good and bad.
In 1993, I left the insurance defense firm and opened my own practice representing injured claimants exclusively. I learned a long time ago that timing is everything in a workers compensation case, which is why I spend a great deal of...
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Joseph Christopher York
Dawsonville, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 31 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp and Personal Injury
Emory University School of Law
ATTORNEY CHRIS YORK focuses exclusively on worker’s compensation and personal injury claims, representing injured workers and accident victims throughout Georgia. A substantial part of his practice involves assisting other lawyers with litigation and settlement of workers’ compensation cases when the insurance company has denied payment of income benefits or medical treatment. Mr. York received a BA degree in Economics from California State University and an MBA in Accounting from the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated from Emory University School of Law in 1993, where he was Associate Editor of the Emory Law Journal. Following law school, he served...
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Matthew Campbell Jordan
Athens, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 19 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp
Cumberland L.S./Samford
Matt has been a litigator for 15 years. He started his career as an Assistant District Attorney in Athens, Georgia, where he spent several years prosecuting felony crimes. He then moved to Atlanta and spent the next five years at two of Georgia's most respected defense firms, where he handled workers' compensation, trucking, premises liability, and general liability litigation.
In 2012, Matt chose to focus his law practice exclusively on the representation of injured workers in Georgia. In this capacity, he has helped hundreds of Georgia workers navigate the complicated and confusing workers' compensation system. In addition to his law practice,...
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Kate Karassik
Gainesville, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 5 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School
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Seth Bader
Norcross, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 21 years of experience
Workers' Comp, Civil Rights, Employment and Personal Injury
Florida State University College of Law
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Jason A. Lanahan
Lawrenceville, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 10 years of experience
Workers' Comp, Estate Planning, Insurance Defense and Personal Injury
Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
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Glenn Bobe
Alpharetta, GA Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 25 years of experience
Workers' Comp
Michigan State University
Glenn graduated summa cum laude from Michigan State University College of Law. He began practicing Workers’ Compensation law in 1999. He came an equity partner at a large insurance defense firm in 2005. In 2014, he, along with Jeff Snell, founded Bobe and Snell, LLC. Glenn has been an active member in the Georgia State Bar Association, Atlanta Bar Association, North Fulton Bar Association and the Georgia Workers’ Compensation Division. Glenn is licensed in the Georgia Supreme Court, Georgia Court of Appeals, Northern District of the U.S. Federal, as well as all Georgia Superior, State, and Magistrate Courts. Over...
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Jonathan Andrew Pope
Canton, GA Workers' Compensation Lawyer with 29 years of experience
Workers' Comp, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Georgia State University
I began my legal career with the Atlanta insurance defense law firm of Chambers, Mabry, McClelland & Brooks (now Mabry McClelland). I focused my trial practice exclusively on personal injury matters, including wrongful death cases, automobile accidents, truck accidents, and other cases involving catastrophic injuries. I am currently a partner at Hasty Pope, LLP. Visit us at www.hastypope.com.
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Shireen Hormozdi
Norcross, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 21 years of experience
(678) 395-7795
1770 Indian Trail Lilburn Road
Suite 175
Norcross, GA 30071
Workers' Comp, Business, Estate Planning and Personal Injury
Shireen Hormozdi began her career in Atlanta as an attorney with a national consumer law firm. During her first year in practice, she tried a case in federal court before Hon. Beverly B. Martin in the Northern District of Georgia and successfully appealed a case before the Georgia Court of Appeals. She left the firm for a federal judicial clerkship with the Hon. E. Clayton Scofield, III in the Northern District of Georgia.
After she completed her clerkship, Ms. Hormozdi worked for a large law firm in Florida, defending Fortune 500 companies against personal injury, products liability and premise liability cases....
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Richard Griffin
Snellville, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 30 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Elder and Personal Injury
Georgia State University College of Law
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Sean Goldstein
Norcross, GA Workers' Compensation Attorney with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp, Business, Criminal Defense and Personal Injury
Georgia State University College of Law
Sean Goldstein dedicates his law practice at Goldstein Law Group to protecting the rights of the accused in the criminal justice system and to helping the injured try to make their lives whole again after unfortunate negligence.
In his personal injury practice, Sean understands the devastating effects that a car accident, slip and fall or other premises liability injury, and a defective product injury can have on a plaintiff and his family. After a neck, back, shoulder, head, or other injury, it's possible that an injured person might never be the same again. Sean dedicates his time...