Top Rated Workers' Compensation Attorney in Atlanta, GA

The Managing Partner of Stottlemyer & Associates located in Atlanta, Georgia, Sarah E. Stottlemyer focuses her workers' compensation practice on helping injured employees seek compensation from insurance companies and navigate the difficult process of Georgia's workers' compensation system. While many of her Clients have suffered injuries to their backs, necks, and lower and upper extremities, Ms. Stottlemyer also handles car accidents that occurred on the job, carpal tunnel and repetitive use injuries, heart attacks suffered at work, paralysis, crush injuries and amputations. She also assists victims who have lost their hearing or vision as well as those who have suffered catastrophic injuries, those injuries that prevent the injured worker from returning to work. Finally, Ms Stottlemyer helps family members recover compensation for a loved one's death that happened while they were on the job. Ms. Stottlemyer's goal is to protect those who have been injured at work from being further victimized by insurance companies during the claims process.

In 2001, Ms. Stottlemyer graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree. She then went on to receive her law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 2004. While attending law school, Ms. Stottlemyer participated in the Jean-Pictet international moot court competition and served as an editor of the Journal of International Law. Upon her graduation from law school, Ms. Stottlemyer was granted a fellowship at The Carter Center for International Peace.

In recognition of the high regard in which she is held by her Clients, Ms. Stottlemyer was awarded a Client's Choice Award from avvo.com in 2013, and Martindale-Hubbell has given her its AV-Preeminent* rating based on her recognition from her peers in the legal community. She is a member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, the State Bar of Georgia and the Atlanta Bar Association, as well as serves on the Board of Directors for the Workers' Compensation Claimant's Bar and the Executive Committee for the Georgia Injured Workers Advocates. Sarah is also the President of Holiday Helping Hands, Inc., a 501c3 non-profit she created to help children of injured workers during the holidays. Admitted to practice in Georgia, Ms. Stottlemyer assists clients in the Atlanta metro area, as well as Clients located all over the state of  Georgia.

*AV-Preeminent and BV-Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used 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 confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell ratings fall into two categories – legal ability and general ethical standards.