Ken Shigley’s professional credentials include: • Treasurer, State Bar of Georgia, 2009-10. • "Super Lawyer” (Atlanta Magazine) • “Legal Elite” (Georgia Trend) • Certified Civil Trial Advocate (National Board of Trial Advocacy) • Listed in Martindale's Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers since 1995. • "AV" rating in Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory since 1988. • Former chair, Southeastern Motor Carrier Liability Institute • National Board, Interstate Trucking Litigation Group, American Association for Justice • Member, Georgia Courts Automation Commission, 2008 - . • Faculty, Emory University Law School Trial Techniques Program, 1998 - 2008. • Chair, Georgia Insurance Law Institute, 1994. • Chair, Tort & Insurance Practice Section, State Bar of Georgia, 1994 - 1995. • Advocate, National College of Advocacy. Completed Ultimate Trial Advocacy Institute at Harvard Law School, 1996. • Member of Million Dollar Advocates Forum, based on judgments and settlements in excess of one million dollars. • Chair, Georgia Personal Injury Practice seminar for Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, 2003 - 2007. • Master, Lamar Inn, American Inns of Court. • Former insurance defense lawyer for 10 years. • Former Assistant District Attorney • Member: American Association for Justice, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Christian Legal Society, Christian Trial Lawyers Association, Atlanta Bar Association, Lawyers Club of Atlanta, Sandy Springs Bar Association.
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Undergraduate:
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Furman University
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Law School:
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Emory University
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Admitted to Bar:
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1977
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Practice Areas:
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Personal > Insurance
Personal > Personal Injury
Personal > Civil Litigation
Personal > Legal Ethics
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Organizations:
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State Bar of Georgia (Secretary), AAJ, GTLA, Inns of Court, Academy of Trial Advocacy, National Board of Trial Advocacy (Certified Civil Trial Advocate)
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Gender:
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Male
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Status:
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Married
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Children:
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2 Children
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Age:
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City of Residence:
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Atlanta, GA
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Home Town:
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Mentone, AL / Douglasville, GA
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Home State:
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GA
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My Interests
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My Politics:
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Moderate
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Favorite Books:
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Favorite Movies:
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To Kill a Mockingbird, O Brother Where Art Thou
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Favorite Music:
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Country, jazz, classical
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Favorite Restaurants:
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Waffle House
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Favorite Travel:
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Favorite Quote:
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1 Corinthians 13: "If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked
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