Ken Shigley is a seasoned truck, bus and automotive safety trial attorney based in Atlanta.

Mr. Shigley is currently unopposed as a candidate for president of the 41,000 member State Bar of Georgia, of which he is now treasurer. If elected, he will become president-elect in June 2010 and president in June 2011.

In his area of practice, Mr. Shigley is on the national board of directors of the Interstate Trucking Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice, and on the national advisory board of the Association of Plaintiffs' Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America.

In addition to extensive experience representing parties in interstate truck and bus collision cases, he is a frequent speaker at national continuing legal education programs in that specialty. In the past couple of years he has taught other lawyers at motor carrier litigation seminars in Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, St. Louis, New Orleans, Nashville, Amelia Island, and of course at home in Atlanta.

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