As an experienced trial attorney in Atlanta, practicing statewide in Georgia, Ken Shigley is slated to serve as President of the 41,000 member State Bar of Georgia in 2011-12. (He will continue his litigation practice unabated during that time.)

Mr. Shigley's work is focused on cases of serious injury and death resulting from truck and bus accidents. He is on the boards of both national organizations of plaintiffs' trucking trial attorneys, and has taught other lawyers at continuing legal education programs on trucking litigation from coast to coast.

Mr. Shigley began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in the then-four county Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit, worked a few years in small town general practice, spent a decade in statewide insurance defense and governmental liability defense practice, and for eighteen years had a solo plaintiffs' trial practice in Atlanta. In order to increase capacity for handling larger cases, he became of counsel with the Atlanta law firm of Chambers, Aholt & Rickard, LLP

Trial Attorney

• Over 125 jury trials taken to verdict.
• Certified Civil Trial Advocate, National Board of Trial Advocacy.
• Master, Lamar Inn of Court at Emory Law School
• Former Faculty, Emory University Law School Trial Techniques Program
• Former Chair, Southeastern Motor Carrier Liability Institute
• Former Chair, Georgia Insurance Law Institute
• Former Chair, Georgia Personal Injury Practice Seminar
• Ultimate Trial Advocacy Institute at Harvard Law School
• He has litigated civil cases for clients in 30 of Georgia's judicial circuits, the United States District Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Georgia, the Southern District of Florida, state circuit courts in Alabama and Nevada, the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
• Advisory Board, Association of Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America
• Interstate Trucking Litigation Group, American Association for Justice
• Frequent speaker at national continuing legal education programs on trial practice and interstate trucking litigation.
• Member of Million Dollar Advocates Forum based on verdicts and settlements in excess of a million dollars.
• Member: American Association or Justice, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Southeastern Trial Lawyers Association

Professional Peer Ratings

• "AV" (highest) rating in Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory since 1989
• Listed in Martindale's Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers since 1995
• "Super Lawyer" (Atlanta Magazine)
• "Legal Elite" (Georgia Trend Magazine)
• 10.0 (Superb) rating on Avvo.com

Bar Leader

• State Bar of Georgia: President-Elect (June 2010- June 2011); Treasurer (June 2009- June 2010); Secretary (2008-09); Executive Committee (2007- ); Board of Governors (2000-08).
• Service on numerous bar committees.
  
• Member: Georgia Courts Automation Commission (2008- )
• Trustee: Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, Georgia Bar Foundation, Lawyers Foundation of Georgia.
• Completed executive education course on financial management of nonprofit organizations, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, 2008.

Education

• Emory University School of Law (J.D.)
• Furman University (B.A.)

Bar Admissions

• Georgia (Superior Courts, Court of Appeals, Supreme Court, 1977)
• U. S. District Courts for the Northern (1977), Middle (1982) and Southern (1985) Districts of Georgia
• U. S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (1981)
• Supreme Court of the United States
• Pro hac vice admissions in Florida, Alabama and Nevada

Personal & Civic

• Happily married for 25 years, two children in college.
• National Advisory Board, Children's Tumor Foundation Marathon Team
• Patient advocate speaker at international medical research conference on neurofibromatosis, 2008.
• Elder and teacher at Peachtree Presbyterian Church

Other attorneys in the firm of Chambers, Aholt & Rickard, LLP include:

Eugene P. "Bo" Chambers, Jr.

• Georgia trial attorney since 1957
• Former insurance defense attorney
• Former president of Georgia Defense Lawyers Association
• Practice includes case involving medical malpractice, nursing home neglect, auto and truck accidents

Douglas F. Aholt

• Admitted in Missouri (1979) and Georgia (1981)
• Former president of DeKalb County Bar Association
• Former insurance defense attorney
• Co-author of "Litigating Nursing Home Cases in Georgia"
• Extensive litigation experience in personal injury and wrongful death cases, including defective products, inadequate premises security, trucking accidents and nursing home neglect, and insurance bad faith.

Clyde E. Rickard

• Practicing law in Georgia since 1978
• Former insurance defense attorney
• Extensive experience in handling a broad range of personal injury and wrongful death cases, including including injury at a business location, home or apartment; dangerous or defective products; truck or car wrecks; nursing home neglect or abuse that causes falls, bed sores, or death; medical mistakes by doctors, nurses or hospital personnel.

Dale C. Ray, Jr.

• Practicing law in Georgia 1982
• Author of "Bad Faith in Insurance Claim Handling in Georgia - An Overview and Update"
• Former insurance defense attorney.
• Extensive experience in personal injury and medical negligence practice, currently limited to representing the victims of wrongful conduct and their families. Past experience has included substantial criminal defense work, business and construction litigation and a decade of insurance defense litigation.