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 Hubert E. Hamilton is a Board Certified Civil Trial Specialist (certified by the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization and the National Board of Trial Advocacy/National Board of Legal Specialty Certification). During his 33 years as a trial lawyer, Hu Hamilton has obtained millions and millions of dollars in settlements and judgments for severely injured clients and their families. He is licensed in Tennessee and Georgia, and is an active member of state and national trial lawyers’ organizations, including the American Association for Justice, the Tennessee Association for Justice and the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association.
Mr. Hamilton is "av" rated by Martindale Hubble, the leading peer based lawyer rating service:
LEGAL ABILITY RATING OF "A"
Based on the standard of ability for the place or area where the lawyer practices, it takes into consideration experience, nature of practice and qualifications relevant to the profession. Where a lawyer's practice is limited or specialized, rating opinions are made on the basis of performance in those Fields of Law. There are no minimum periods of time in practice required for any rating.
GENERAL RECOMMENDATION RATING OF "V"
Embraces faithful adherence to professional standards of conduct and ethics of the legal profession, professional reliability and diligence, and standards relevant to the attorney's discharge of his or her professional responsibilities.
- Mercer University Law School, J.D., 1976
- Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1973
1999 to 2009
The Hamilton Firm, 4608 Rossville Boulevard, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37407, focusing on serious personal injury, wrongful death and workplace injury cases.
1979 to 1998
Bennett & Hamilton, Rossville, Georgia, general trial practice for several years, then concentrating solely on personal injury, wrongful death and workplace injury cases
1976 to 1979
Sole practitioner, Macon, Georgia, general civil and criminal practice.
Mr. Hamilton has been admitted to practice in all state courts in Georgia since 1976, and in all state courts in Tennessee since 1987. He is also admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Middle District of Georgia, the Northern District of Georgia, the Eastern District of Tennessee and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Sustaining Member, Tennessee Association for Justice; Champion Member, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association; Sustaining Member, American Association for Justice; Member, Workers’ Injury Law & Advocacy Group; Member, Chattanooga Bar Association; Member, Lookout Mountain Bar Association (President 1989-1990).
- Member, The Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America.
- Served on Challenge Committees for the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association in 2005-2006, and in 1987-1989, to support legal and constitutional challenges to tort reform legislation. Represented the plaintiff in Denton v. Con-way Southern Express, 261 Ga. 41 (1991) which overturned the collateral source statute enacted as part of 1987 tort reform legislation.
- Also served as Budget Committee Chair and Legislative Committee Co-Chair for the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association.
- Collateral Source Battle Still Not Over, The Verdict (Journal of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association), July/August 1992
- Challenges to Collateral Source Disclosure Pending Before Supreme Court, The Verdict, June/July/August 1990
- Collateral Source Disclosure – Trial Practice Ideas and Suggestions, The Verdict, December 1988
- Technology Workshop, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, March 2008: CaseMap and TextMap in Plaintiff’s Practice
- Life After No-Fault, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, October 1991: The Unholy Triumvirate: Collateral Source, Set-Off and Subrogation
- Proof of Liability and Damages, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, December 1988: Slip and Fall – Getting the Six Figure Verdict
- Fall Workshop, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, November 1987: Practical Approaches to Tort Reform
- Annual Seminar and Convention, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, April 1986: Drunk Driving: Third Party Liability
- The Hospital Authority of Gwinnett County v. Rapson, 283 Ga. App. 297 (2007)
- North Georgia Electric Membership Corp. v. Webb, 246 Ga. App. 316, (2000)
- City of Dalton v. Gene Rogers Construction, 223 Ga. App. 819 (1996)
- Mathis v. Bowater, Inc. 985 F.2d 277 (6th Cir. 1993)
- Denton v. Con-way Southern Express, 261 Ga. 41 (1991)
- Goforth v. Wigley, 178 Ga. App. 558 (1986)
- Walkley v. Dukes, 175 Ga. App. 820 (1985)
- Allstate Insurance Co. v. Baugh, 173 Ga. App. 615 (1985)
- Wallace v. Yarbrough, 155 Ga. App. 184 (1980)
- Middlebrooks v. Lonas, 246 Ga. 720 (1980)
- Cooper v. Mason, 155 Ga. App. 793 (1979)
- Tucker v. Mappin, 149 Ga. App. 847 (1979)
- Cumbie v. Cumbie, 146 Ga. App. 704 (1978)
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