In The News
October 27, 2008. Announcement that Ken Shigley is becoming "of counsel" with law firm of Chambers, Aholt & Richard, LLP.
October 26, 2008. Ken Shigley speaks on "Insurance in Trucking Cases" at national continuing legal education program of the Association of Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America, in Atlanta.
October 22, 2008. Ken Shigley wins $1,250,000 jury verdict representing passenger in single car wreck, despite defense that client had assumed risk of injury by getting car with defendant driver after they had been drinking and consuming controlled substances together.
October 4, 2008. Ken Shigley speaks on "Insurance in Truckings Cases" at Advanced Trucking Litigation seminar in Chicago, sponsored by Interstate Trucking Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice.
September 2008. Ken Shigley appointed chair of new State Bar Electronic Court Filing Committee.
July 2008. Ken Shigley appointed to Georgia Courts Automation Commission.
July 12, 2008. Ken Shigley speaks on punitive damages and attorney fee awards in trucking litigation at national seminar of Association for Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America, in St. Louis, Mo.
June 7, 2008. Ken Shigley installed as Secretary of State Bar of Georgia, after carrying 157 counties in contested statewide bar election.
February 9, 2008. Ken Shigley speaks on trucking litigation issues involving the National Highway Transportation Safety Board at American Association for Justice trucking litigation seminar in New Orleans.
On January 18, 2008, the Fulton County Daily Report published Ken Shigley's analysis of the unintended consequences of a sales tax on legal services, an earlier draft of which appeared in this blog a couple of days ago. It must have been a slow news day because they gave me a full page.
At the State Bar of Georgia Midyear Meeting on January 12, 2008, Ken Shigley was nominated as a candidate for Secretary. Ballots will be mailed to all active members of the State Bar on April 1st.
At the 2007 Annual Meeting of the State Bar of Georgia, Ken Shigley was elected as one of six at-large members of the 14-member Executive Committee of the 38,000 member governing body of the legal profession in Georgia.
The Spring/Summer 2006 issue of Verdict magazine, a publication of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, includes an article by Ken Shigley titled "Treating Physicians' Testimony Under Daubert." This deals with admissibility of physicians' expert testimony under the current rules on expert witnesses.
Ken Shigley served as chairman of the Southeastern Motor Carrier Liability Institute, sponsored by the Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina Trial Lawyers Associations. This two-day continuing legal education on November 10 and 11, 2005, was an overview of the law and technology involved in large commercial motor vehicle crash cases.
Atlanta Magazine designated Ken Shigley as a “Georgia SuperLawyer" in its March 2005 issue.
Georgia Trend Magazine included Ken Shigley in its listing of "Legal Elite: Georgia's Most Effective Lawyers," in the personal injury practice area, in its December 2004 issue. A trial lawyer with over 100 jury trials completed, he is a Certified Civil Trial Advocate of the National Board of Trial Advocacy, former chair of the Tort & Insurance Practice Section of the State Bar of Georgia, and listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers in the personal injury and products liability practice areas.
Confidential case settlements in recent months include a multiple seven-figure resolution with a major auto manufacturer arising from defective design of an electronic interlock in the antilock braking system, and multiple six-figure settlements with an international building supply company whose cement mixer truck collided with the rear of a carpenter's pickup truck driving a load of lumber through the pickup cab and with a "big box" retailer that knew the fixtures it used in thousands of stores presented a tripping hazard. We also recently won summary judgment for a dentist on a hotly contested disability insurance claim.
In October 19, 2005, Ken Shigley was program chair of the annual Georgia Personal Injury Practice seminar sponsored by the Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia. This was his third consecutive year chairing this program.