Ken Shigley is a trial attorney in Atlanta, handling wrongful death and catastrophic personal injury cases statewide in Georgia. He now focuses his law practice primarily on truck, bus and product safety, holding accountable those companies that cause death or serious injuries when they violate safety standards. He often "thinks outside the box," using his three decades of varied trial and litigation experience in pusuit of creative solutions for clients.
There is no obligation in seeking a free consultation.- Truck & bus accidents. Ken Shigley is a trucking safety trial attorney with a successful track record. He served as Chair of the Southeastern Motor Carrier Liability Institute and now is on the national advisory board of the Association of Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America.
- Catastrophic personal injury. Ken Shigley has handled litigation on both sides of personal injury cases for 27 years, including cases of spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, amputations, burns, and back and neck injuries. A former chair of the Tort & Insurance Practice Section of the Georgia Bar and the Georgia Insurance Law Institute, he has for years chaired annual seminars on personal injury practice for the Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia.
- Wrongful death. Ken Shigley started out as a prosecutor trying criminal cases of murder, manslaughter and vehicular homicide, and has litigated on both sides of civil wrongful death cases since the early 1980's. His breadth of experience is useful in working through the trapdoors of Georgia wrongful death law and insurance coverage law.
- Defective products. Ken Shigley has successfully represented plaintiffs in seven-figure recoveries for catastrophic injuries based upon defects in motor vehicle roofs, seatbelts, seats, brakes, tires, as well as a variety of industrial equipment and consumer products. He handled the only known successful wrongful death products liability claim utilizing the treble damage provisions of the Georgia Fair Business Practices Act, collecting policy limits from a heavy equipment distributor by classifying a defective "knockoff" forklift truck attachent as an "office supply."
Professional Qualifications
- State Bar of Georgia - Secretary
- Chair, Southeastern Motor Carrier Liability Institute
- "Superlawyer" (Atlanta Magazine)
- "Legal Elite" (Georgia Trend)
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- Certified Civil Trial Advocate, National Board of Trial Advocacy
- National Advisory Board, Association of Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America
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Ken Shigley, Chambers Aholt & Rickard, LLP, Atlanta, GA: an AV Rated Law Firm, for ethical standards and legal ability, and listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
