Ken Shigley, Sr.
Chambers, Aholt & Rickard, LLP ken@carllp.com
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Toll Free: 877.778.7944
Telephone: 404.253.7866
One Midtown Plaza
1360 Peachtree Street, Suite 910
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
Ken Shigley is a truck, bus and automotive safety trial attorney based in Atlanta,. He has tried over 120 cases to verdict and is a frequent speaker at national continuing legal education programs on trucking trial practice across the United States. Mr. Shigley is now one of the top officers of the 40,000 member State Bar of Georgia.
In addition to truck, bus and other motor vehicle cases involving catastrophic injury and wrongful death, Mr. Shigley has substantial experience handling cases involving unsafe products, dangerous premises and professional negligence.
Mr. Shigley began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in a rural judicial circuit, worked a few years in small town general practice, spent a decade in an Atlanta firm with a statewide insurance defense and governmental liability defense practice, and for eighteen years was a sole practitioner. In 2008, in order to expand capacity for handling more and larger cases, he joined the Atlanta law firm of Chambers, Aholt & Rickard, LLP
In addition to truck, bus and other motor vehicle cases involving catastrophic injury and wrongful death, Mr. Shigley has substantial experience handling cases involving unsafe products, dangerous premises and professional negligence.
Mr. Shigley began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in a rural judicial circuit, worked a few years in small town general practice, spent a decade in an Atlanta firm with a statewide insurance defense and governmental liability defense practice, and for eighteen years was a sole practitioner. In 2008, in order to expand capacity for handling more and larger cases, he joined the Atlanta law firm of Chambers, Aholt & Rickard, LLP
Trial Attorney
- 125 jury trials taken to verdict.
- Certified Civil Trial Advocate, National Board of Trial Advocacy.
- Master, Lamar Inn of Court at Emory Law School
- Former Faculty, Emory University Law School Trial Techniques Program
- Former Chair, Southeastern Motor Carrier Liability Institute
- Former Chair, Georgia Insurance Law Institute
- Former Chair, Georgia Personal Injury Practice Seminar
- Ultimate Trial Advocacy Institute at Harvard Law School
- He has litigated civil cases for clients in 30 of Georgia's judicial circuits, the United States District Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Georgia, the Southern District of Florida, state circuit courts in Alabama and Nevada, the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Advisory Board, Association of Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America
- Interstate Trucking Litigation Group, American Association for Justice
- Frequent speaker at national continuing legal education programs on trial practice and interstate trucking litigation.
- Member of Million Dollar Advocates Forum based on verdicts and settlements in excess of a million dollars.
- Member: American Association or Justice, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Southeastern Trial Lawyers Association
- "AV" (highest) rating in Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory since 1989
- Listed in Martindale's Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers since 1995
- "Super Lawyer" (Atlanta Magazine)
- "Legal Elite" (Georgia Trend Magazine)
- 10.0 (Superb) rating on Avvo.com
- State Bar of Georgia: Treasurer (2009-10); Secretary (2008-09); Executive Committee (2007- ); Board of Governors (2000- ); Chair: Electronic Court Filing Committee (2008-09), Member Benefits Committee (2001-03), Tort & Insurance Practice Section (1994-95); Executive Committee Liaison: Disciplinary Rules & Procedures Committee; Fee Arbitration Committee; Practice Management Committee
- Member: Georgia Courts Automation Commission (2008- )
- Trustee: Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, State Bar of Georgia Foundation, Inc.
- Completed executive education course on financial management of nonprofit organizations, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, 2008.
- Emory University School of Law (J.D.)
- Furman University (B.A.)
- Georgia (Superior Courts, Court of Appeals, Supreme Court, 1977)
- U. S. District Courts for the Northern (1977), Middle (1982) and Southern (1985) Districts of Georgia
- U. S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (1981)
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Pro hac vice admissions in Florida, Alabama and Nevada
- Happily married for 25 years, two children in college.
- National Advisory Board, Children's Tumor Foundation Marathon Team
- Patient advocate speaker at international medical research conference on neurofibromatosis, 2008.
- Elder and teacher at Peachtree Presbyterian Church
- Formerly chair of board of directors of Peachtree Presbyterian Child Development Center, Inc., and on corporate board ("Operations Ministry Team") of Presbytery of Greater Atlanta, Inc.
- Board of directors, Lifegate Counseling Center, Inc.
- Former Boy Scout adult leader (son became Eagle Scout) and youth soccer coach (son became college football kicker).
Eugene P. "Bo" Chambers, Jr.
- Georgia trial attorney since 1957
- Former insurance defense attorney
- Former president of Georgia Defense Lawyers Association
- Practice includes case involving medical malpractice, nursing home neglect, auto and truck accidents
- Admitted in Missouri (1979) and Georgia (1981)
- Former president of DeKalb County Bar Association
- Former insurance defense attorney
- Co-author of "Litigating Nursing Home Cases in Georgia"
- Extensive litigation experience in personal injury and wrongful death cases, including defective products, inadequate premises security, trucking accidents and nursing home neglect, and insurance bad faith.
- Practicing law in Georgia since 1978
- Former insurance defense attorney
- Extensive experience in handling a broad range of personal injury and wrongful death cases, including including injury at a business location, home or apartment; dangerous or defective products; truck or car wrecks; nursing home neglect or abuse that causes falls, bed sores, or death; medical mistakes by doctors, nurses or hospital personnel.
- Practicing law in Georgia 1982
- Author of "Bad Faith in Insurance Claim Handling in Georgia - An Overview and Update"
- Former insurance defense attorney.
- Extensive experience in personal injury and medical negligence practice, currently limited to representing the victims of wrongful conduct and their families. Past experience has included substantial criminal defense work, business and construction litigation and a decade of insurance defense litigation.
- Practicing law in Georgia since 1999.
- Former president of Georgia Association of Women Lawyers
- Co-author of "Litigating Nursing Home Cases in Georgia"
- Author of "Resolving Conflict in the Litigation Context"
- Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star (Atlanta Magazine)
- "Legal Elite" (Georgia Trend Magazine)