Top Rated Personal Injury Attorney in Atlanta, GA

Shiver Hamilton, LLC

| 3490 Piedmont Rd NE, Suite 640
Atlanta, GA 30305

Visit: http://www.shiverhamilton.com

Phone: 470-240-0567

Fax: 877-270-8546

Selected To Super Lawyers: 2014 - 2020
Selected To Rising Stars: 2010 - 2013

Licensed Since: 2005

Education: University of Georgia School of Law

Practice Areas:

Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff (60%),
Personal Injury - Products: Plaintiff (20%),
Business Litigation (20%)

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Attorney Profile

Alan Hamilton is a co-founder of Atlanta, Georgia, based Shiver Hamilton, LLC, where he focuses his practice primarily on personal injury and wrongful death litigation. Admitted to practice before all Georgia state courts, Mr. Hamilton is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. In addition, he has appeared pro hac vice in other courtrooms across the country.

Mr. Hamilton represents clients throughout the greater metropolitan area who have incurred economic and noneconomic losses as a result of another party's negligence. His cases have centered on inadequate security, commercial and passenger vehicle crashes, dram shop liability, workplace accidents, and defective products. Some of the representative results that Mr. Hamilton has been able to obtain have included a $17 million verdict against Ford Motor Company after an auto products liability trial and a $29.25 million jury award in a premises liability case. His successes have led to his receipt of an AV Preeminent* peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell and a 10.0 "Superb" peer review rating through Avvo. In addition, Mr. Hamilton has been named to both The National Trial Lawyers: Top 40 Under 40 and The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100, and Georgia Trend Magazine has included him in its annual Legal Elite list.

Mr. Hamilton is regularly asked to deliver presentations to groups of fellow attorneys on topics related to his practice area. His speaking engagements have included the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and the Institute of Continuing Legal Education. Mr. Hamilton obtained his legal education at the University of Georgia School of Law, and upon his receipt of Juris Doctor magna cum laude in 2004, he was inducted into the Order of the Coif.

*AV®, AV Preeminent®, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished and Martindale-Hubbell Notable are certification marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell® is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rating™ fall into two categories – legal ability and general ethical standards.

Practice Areas

Personal Injury - General (60%): Animal Bites, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Personal Injury - Plaintiff, Wrongful Death, Brain Injury, Sexual Abuse - Plaintiff, Trucking Accidents, Premises Liability - Plaintiff

Personal Injury - Products (20%): Motor Vehicle Defects, Medical Devices, Products Liability

Business Litigation (20%)

Focus Areas

Animal Bites, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Personal Injury - Plaintiff, Wrongful Death, Brain Injury, Sexual Abuse - Plaintiff, Trucking Accidents, Premises Liability - Plaintiff, Motor Vehicle Defects, Medical Devices, Products Liability

Selections

Super Lawyers: 2014 - 2020 Rising Stars: 2010 - 2013

Top Lists

Top 100: 2019 Georgia Super Lawyers

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About Alan Hamilton

Admitted: 2005, Georgia

Professional Webpage: https://shiverhamilton.com/your-team/alan-hamilton/

Honors/Awards:

Best Brief & National Finalist, Prince Evidence Competition Brooklyn Law School
Law School Alumni Association Scholarship, University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia
Region Champion and Best Brief, The National Moot Court Competition, University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia
Pupil, Joseph Henry Lumpkin Inn of Court, University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia
Best Oralist, Talmadge Moot Court Competition, University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia
Order of the Coif, University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia
Order of Barristers, University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia

Bar/Professional Activity:

Georgia State Bar, Task Force/Committee on E-Discovery
GTLA, Executive Committee, Member
Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Education Chair
Federal Bar Association
Atlanta Bar Association
Joseph Henry Lumpkin Inn of Court
National Trial Lawyers Association
American Association for Justice
Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
Pro Hac Vice Admissions have included AL, AK, FL, MD, NV, NY, SC, TN and VA
Southern Trial Lawyers Association
American Bar Association
State Bar of Georgia
U.S. District Court Middle District of Georgia
U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Supreme Court of Georgia
Georgia Court of Appeals
Georgia

Pro bono/Community Service:

Buckhead Church, Community Group Leader
Public Justice Foundation
Buckhead Church, Member
Third Lens Ministries
Skyland Trail Advisory Board

Scholarly Lectures/Writings:

Trial Practice and Procedure (Co-Author), 60 Mercer L. Rev. 397, 2008
Trial Practice and Procedure (Co-Author), 59 Mercer L. Rev. 423, 2007
ICLE Trial & Error, March, 2012
Trial Practice and Procedure (Co-Author), 62 Mercer L. Rev. 339, 2010
Auto Products Liability Paralegals Seminar: Seat Back Defect Cases, Fall, 2008
AIEG Spring Seminar, Bonus Section: What Makes a Good Product Liability Case, 2009
AIEG Auto Focus Fall Seminar, Bonus Section: Effective Use of Other Similar Incident Evidence, 2010
AIEG Spring Seminar, “Recent Preemption Fights in Auto Products Liability”, 2010
GTLA Annual Seminar, Products Liability Section, “Suing Foreign Manufacturers,” Spring, 2010
GTLA Annual Seminar, New Lawyers Division, Spring, 2011
ICLE of Georgia “Superstar Personal Injury Greatest Hits,” March, 2011
GTLA Annual Seminar, Opening Statements, 2017
Southern Trial Lawyers, February, 2012
GTLA Annual Seminar, Auto Section, 2013
GTLA Torts Workshop, March, 2013
ICLE Product Liability: Evidence Code Changes, February, 2013
GTLA Fall Workshop, Pre-trial Motions, October, 2013
ICLE Successful Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Practice: Proving Future Damages, September, 2013
GTLA Holiday Workshop, Discovery: Update on Pending Changes to the Federal Rules and ‘E-Discovery’ Legislation in Georgia, December, 2014
ICLE Superstar Personal Injury Greatest Hits, 2016
Carlson on Evidence Seminar, The Visual Trial, 2016
ICLE Litigation Soup to Nuts, Trial Preparation, 2017

Verdicts/Settlements:

Flax v. DaimlerChrysler Corp., 272 S.W.3d 521 (Tenn. 2008), cert denied, 129 S. Ct. 2433 (2009) (affirming punitive damages product liability verdict)
Estate of Pitts v. City of Atlanta, 312 Ga. App. 599 (2011)
Ford Motor Co. v. Gibson, 283 Ga. 398, 659 S.E.2d 346 (2008) (affirming issue preclusion sanction and $13 million verdict)
Williams v. Taser Intern’l, Inc., 2008 WL 192991 (N.D. Ga. 2008) (striking all 12,000 of Defendant’s privilege claims as a sanction for discovery and privilege log abuse)
Flores v. Exprezit! Stores, 289 Ga. 466 (2011) (amicus curiae for Ga. Trial Lawyers Association) (holding that convenience stores are subject to Georgia’s dram shop law prohibiting sales of alcohol to visibly intoxicated persons who are soon to be driving)
A&G Trucking, Inc. v. Pitts, 306 Ga. App. 718, 703 S.E.2d 134 (2010) (affirming $ 5.47 million jury verdict)
A&G Trucking, Inc. v. Pitts, 306 Ga. App. 718, 703 S.E.2d 134 (2010) ($5.47 million jury verdict; affirmed on appeal)
Cox v. Grant – $1.4 Million Auto Negligence Verdict, Henry County State Court
Jones v. Restaurant Depot – $1,975,000 Premises Liability Verdict, Fulton County State Court
A&G Trucking, Inc. v. Pitts, 306 Ga. App. 718, 703 S.E.2d 134 (2010) ($5.47 million jury verdict; affirmed on appeal)
Wheeler v. Ford Motor Company – $17,000,000 Auto Product Liability Jury Verdict, Clayton County State Court
Gomez-Mendez v. JAMCO, et al. – $20,000,000 Premises Liability Verdict, Clayton County
Hilario v. Newell Recycling of Atlanta, Inc. – $29,250,000 Premises Liability Verdict, Fulton County State Court