Practice areas: Personal Injury; view more
Licensed in Georgia since: 2003
Education: Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2018 - 2026 
Selected to Rising Stars: 2009 - 2010, 2016 - 2017 Call today:
912-205-3456
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1 Diamond CausewaySuite 21, PMB 300
Savannah, GA 31406 Visit website
Carl Varnedoe is the founder of Carl R. Varnedoe, LLC and focuses his practice on personal injury and wrongful death claims. Located in Savannah, Georgia, Carl is privileged to represent victims of other’s negligence locally and throughout the state, including along major tractor-trailer trucking corridors like I-16, I-75, and I-95. Carl is a 1999 graduate of the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business and a 2003 graduate of Mercer University School of Law where he earned his Juris Doctor.
Before returning home to the Georgia coast, Carl practiced with a prominent Atlanta-based litigation boutique and subsequently with a 600 plus lawyer firm based in Memphis, Tennessee. During this 7 plus year stint, Carl learned from and worked alongside some of the country’s best and brightest trial lawyers. Having honed his skills in and out of the courtroom, Carl returned to his hometown of Hinesville and immersed himself into trial work on behalf of injured parties and families who lost a loved one because of someone else’s mistake or intentional wrongdoing.
Carl’s practice includes trucking, commercial vehicle, tractor-trailer, 18-wheeler wrecks, motor vehicle crashes, catastrophic injuries, spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, wrongful death, premises liability, slip and fall and trip and fall, medical and nursing home malpractice, bicycle wrecks, pedestrian versus vehicle wrecks, motorcycle wrecks, negligent security, and civil rights deprivation. Carl has tried 11 cases to a jury’s verdict in Emanuel, Peach, Cherokee, Burke, Liberty, Bryan, McIntosh, Glynn, Wayne and Bulloch counties with combined verdicts in excess of $21 million. This is in addition to over $100 million in negotiated settlements. Carl has represented numerous clients in State, Superior and Federal District Courts throughout Georgia and before the Georgia Court of Appeals and Supreme Court of Georgia.
Practice areas
Personal Injury - General: PlaintiffFocus areas
Animal Bites, Assault, Brain Injury, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Premises Liability - Plaintiff, Slip and Fall, Trucking Accidents, Wrongful Death
- 100% Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff
First Admitted: 2003, Georgia
Bar / Professional Activity
- State Bar of Georgia, Co-Chair, Young Lawyers Division Leadership Academy, 2008-2011
- Macon Bar Association, Member
- State Bar of Georgia, Member, Board of Directors, Young Lawyers Division, 2004-2011, 2013
- Georgia, 2003
- State Bar of Georgia, Member, Advisory Committee on Legislation, 2012-present
- State Bar of Georgia, Member, Board of Governors, 2010-2020
- Member, Mercer University School of Law Moot Court Board: Constitutional Law Competition Brief Captain
Verdicts / Settlements (Case Results)
- $1.5 million wrongful death medical negligence settlement., 2024
- $362,500 passenger vehicle wreck settlement., 2024
- $235,000 slip and fall settlement., 2024
- $500,000 wrongful death settlement. , 2022
- $850,000 car wreck settlement., 2023
- $750,000 car wreck settlement., 2023
- $1.375 million 42 U.S.C. 1983 inmate versus inmate wrongful death settlement. , 2023
- $400,000 tractor-trailer versus passenger vehicle settlement., 2022
- $325,000 car wreck settlement., 2022
- $1 million premises liability settlement., 2021
- $300,000 single-vehicle motorcyle wreck settlement., 2021
- $450,000 tractor-trailer versus motorcycle settlement. , 2020
- $1 million tractor-trailer settlement., 2020
- $430,000 policy limits car wreck settlement., 2020
- $1 million single vehicle motorcycle wrongful death settlement , 2019
- $4 million commercial vehicle wrongful death and catastrophic injury settlement , 2019
- $1.5 million DUI driver versus moped wrongful death settlement , 2018
- $6.65 million commercial vehicle tractor trailer wrongful death and personal injury settlement, 2019
- $2.3 million premises liability slip and fall jury verdict, 2018
Videos
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0bBa-kuzbU
Honors
- National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers, 2014-present
- Georgia Super Lawyer 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, Super Lawyers
- Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2009, 2010, 2016 and 2017
- Award of Achievement for Outstanding Service to the Bar, State Bar of Georgia, 2009, 2010 and 2013
- Ethics and Professionalism Award, State Bar of Georgia, 2010
- Daily Report On the Rise- Top 40 Lawyer Under 40, 2013
Educational Background
- University of Georgia, B.B.A., 1999, 1999
- Consumer Protection
- Insurance Claims
Office location for Carl Varnedoe
1 Diamond Causeway
Suite 21, PMB 300
Savannah, GA 31406
Phone: 912-205-3456
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2018 - 2026
- Rising Stars: 2009 - 2010, 2016 - 2017
