Cases We Handle

Atlanta Personal Injury Lawyer

Johnson & Ward, established in 1949, became the first and best personal injury law firm in Atlanta. Our practice is focused on:

Catastrophic Personal Injury

Since 1949, attorneys at Johnson & Ward have represented injury victims in in thousands of personal injury cases in Georgia involving:

• Brain injury
• Spinal cord injury
• Burn injury
• Amputation
• Back Injuries
• Neck injuries
• Serious injuries to children 

Wrongful Death

Since the firm’s founding in 1949, trial lawyers at Johnson & Ward have represented surviving family members in many hundreds of cases involving wrongful death of spouses, parents, and children resulting from car, truck, and bus wrecks, premises liability incidents, and defectively manufactured products.

Automobile Crash Cases

The attorneys at Johnson & Ward have successfully represented injured clients in thousands of car crash cases. Mr. Shigley is a past chair of the Motor Vehicle Collision, Highway & Premises Liability Section of the American Association for Justice.

Truck Crash Cases

We represent victims and families in personal injury and wrongful death cases, including tractor-trailers, semi-trailers, dump trucks, log trucks, and other large commercial truck crashes in which occupants of either another vehicle or the large truck itself were killed or seriously injured. Mr. Shigley has served on the national boards of the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys and the Trucking Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice, taught in continuing legal education programs on trucking litigation from coast to coast, and was chair of the Southeastern Motor Carrier Liability Institute, and has been recognized as an attorney who “specializes in wrongful death cases against trucking companies.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 7, 2018.

Bus Crashes

Attorneys at Johnson & Ward have represented many people injured in crashes of tour buses, college vans, buses, company vans, school buses, and transit buses. Among those were the crash of a tour bus in Atlanta carrying the a college baseball team from Ohio and the crash of a college van carrying thirteen college cheerleaders in Georgia.

Defective Products Liability

We have successfully represented people seriously injured by defective brakes, passenger restraint systems, tires, industrial machinery, and other defectively designed or manufactured products.

Premises Liability

We have represented many clients injured due to negligent security, criminal assaults on business property, unsafe floors, stairs, sidewalks, swimming pools, dog bites, etc. Mr. Shigley is a past chair of the Motor Vehicle Collision, Highway & Premises Liability Section of the American Association for Justice.

Many of our cases have resulted in numerous recoveries of well over a million dollars.

If you have been injured in an accident caused by another’s negligence, call us at 404-253-7862, or submit our contact form today for a free consultation to discuss your legal rights.