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Any lawyer who views a catastrophic commercial truck or bus accident as just a big car wreck is dangerously naive. Truck and bus operations are governed by complex sets of federal and state regulations and involve much specialized technology. Adequate preparation of such cases requires extensive knowledge of motor carrier law and technology, industry practices, and unique insurance features.

Ken Shigley is an experienced trucking trial attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, and immediate past president of the 42,000 member State Bar of Georgia.

His practice is focused on high end personal injury and wrongful death cases, primarily resulting from motor carrier accidents - commercial trucks, buses, tractor trailers, big rigs, dump trucks, tanker trucks, cement trucks, straight trucks, delivery trucks, log trucks, etc.

He is on the national board of the Interstate Trucking Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice, and has taught other lawyers from coast to coast about aspects of litigating trucking cases.

Immediate Past President,
State Bar of Georgia

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