William M. Cummings II
Top rated Workers' Compensation attorney in Atlanta, Georgia
Cummings & Middlebrooks, LLP
Practice areas: Workers' Compensation, Personal Injury
Licensed in Georgia since: 1996
Education: Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
Cummings & Middlebrooks, LLP
3355 Lenox Rd NESuite 1075
Atlanta, GA 30326 Phone: 404-250-3292 Email: William M. Cummings II Visit website
William M. Cummings II is a workers' compensation trial lawyer. Mr. Cummings, a native of Cedartown, Georgia, graduated from Auburn University and obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Mercer University. He began his legal career as a law clerk for the Houston Judicial Circuit (Perry, Georgia) serving under the Honorable Judges George F. Nunn, Jr., L.A. McConnell, Jr., and Edward D. Lukemire. Subsequently, Mr. Cummings worked as a Staff Attorney for the Georgia State Board of Workers' Compensation, during which time he obtained certification as a mediator and performed numerous mediations involving a variety of workers' compensation issues. Mr. Cummings then joined a prestigious law firm in Atlanta where he focused his practice on Workers' Compensation. During his tenure, he published numerous articles in the firm's client journal, and served as a faculty member for Lorman Educational Services and the Georgia State Board of Workers' Compensation Annual Seminar in Atlanta. Mr. Cummings then opened his firm in 2005 to focus solely on the representation of injured workers. He has extensive trial and mediation experience before the Georgia State Board of Workers' Compensation. Mr. Cummings is admitted to practice law in all Georgia state courts, the Georgia Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of Georgia.
First Admitted: 1996, Georgia
Professional Webpage: https://www.cmlawllp.com/about-us/william-cummings/
Bar / Professional Activity
- Member of American Bar Association, Atlanta Bar Association, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Georgia Workers' Compensation Claimant's Lawyers (WCCL), Lawyers' Club of Atlanta, State Bar of Georgia and Workers' Injury & Advocacy Group (WILG)
Representative Clients
- Mr. Cummings' practice involves the representation of injured workers throughout the State of Georgia, with a focus on catastrophically injured individuals. Other representative cases include employee death claims, repetitive use/repetitive trauma injuries, knee, hip, shoulder and elbow injuries, arm and leg injuries, head and brain injuries, and back, neck and spinal cord injuries., 2005
Special Licenses / Certifications
- Certified as a mediator while working for the Geogia State Board of Workers' Compensation, 1998
Honors
- Super Lawyer Honoree, Super Lawyers, 2023
- Legal Elite, Georgia Trend Magazine, 2023
- Rated 10/10, Avvo, 2023
- AV Rated, Martindale-Hubbell, 2023
Educational Background
- Bachelor of Science, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, 1993
Scholarly Lectures / Writings
- Mr. Cummings has been a speaker at Lorman Educational Services and the Georgia State Board of Workers' Compensation Annual Seminar. Topics have included functional capacity evaluations, elements of a workers' compensation claim, defenses to work-related injuries, alternative dispute resolution and the mediation process, and subsequent injury trust fund claims., Speaker, Workers' Compensation Attorneys And Claims Adjusters
- American Bar Association
- Atlanta Bar Association
- State Bar Of Georgia
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2012, 2021 - 2026