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Top 100 Personal Injury Lawyers
Kenneth L. Shigley, Sr., of Atlanta, Georgia, has been named one of America’s Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys ® for 2020.
Selection to America’s Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys® is by invitation only and is reserved to identity the nation’s most exceptional litigators for high-value personal injury, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, … Continue Reading
Food poisoning proof is focus of Georgia Supreme Court decision
On a warm October afternoon two years ago, wearing one of the yarmulkes that Jewish funeral directors provide for non-Jewish attendees, I helped shovel red Georgia dirt into the open grave of an old client and friend. As I did so, I pondered the unanswered question whether long-term side effects of her food poisoning a … Continue Reading
The passing of Justice Scalia and the premature debate about his successor
Justice Antonin Scalia
The one time I met the late Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, he talked about how much he loved hunting quail. It is good that he was able to spend his last day in this mortal realm on a quail hunt.
Back in 2012, when I was president of the State Bar of Georgia, Justice … Continue Reading
How you can be hurt if your medical ID is stolen
Every few weeks or months, we see news stories about breach of data security in medical centers or health insurance companies. Most people hearing that probably just shrug, figuring it’s not as bad as breach of credit card or other financial data. Earlier this year, for example, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia revealed that as … Continue Reading
9 Key Tips for Swimming Pool Safety
A hot summer afternoon at the pool offers rest and relaxation perfect for the season — cool water, a relaxing chaise chair, and a cold glass of lemonade by your side. However, pleasure of a pool must be coupled with prudence in swimming pool safety due to the risks of drowning , near drowning and spinal … Continue Reading
Shigley Law welcomes two new staff members
As we ramp up capacity to handle more and larger cases of wrongful death and catastropic personal injury, and prepare to move into new office space in the Buckhead area of Atlanta later in the summer, I am pleased to welcome two new staff members:
Ashley Lane – senior paralegal, office manager, COO and CFO. Ashley … Continue Reading
Only 81 days remain as State Bar president
A year goes by awfully fast when you’re working two full-time jobs. With only 81 days remaining in my term as State Bar president, I look forward to the ability to just focus on my clients and my law practice. For now, however, I find myself working late into the night to catch up on … Continue Reading
Eulogy for My Father
Eulogy for My Father
Robert Nelson Shigley, June 25, 1924 – May 27, 2010
Mentone Community Church
Mentone, Alabama
May 30, 2010
Daddy was born a few hundreds yards from here in a farm house built around a pioneer log cabin.
It was a time before paved roads or electricity came to the mountain.
His grandmother Melissa’s family, … Continue Reading
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery . . .
In September 1995, I explained the Internet ("It was developed for national defense and used to be called the Arpanet"), email and web sites to a couple of hundred lawyers at a seminar at St. Simons Island. Since this was before anyone had Power Point or LED projectors, I used transparencies on an overhead projector … Continue Reading
Neurofibromatosis Research Conference in Florida
Last Monday at Bonita Springs, Florida, I spoke at an international conference of medical researchers on neurofibromatosis, the condition that made my daughter deaf. Other than a handful of patient family representatives who were invited to provide a human perspective, the participants were research scientists and medical specialists from top unitiversties and research centers around … Continue Reading
