Alan Hamilton

Partner

Alan Hamilton focuses his law practice on catastrophic plaintiffs’ personal injury cases and wrongful death. Alan has won many seven- and eight-figure verdicts and settlements during his career. He has represented individuals and appeared before courts in fifteen different states. Prior to co-founding Shiver Hamilton Campbell, Alan practiced with a nationally recognized trial firm and served as a federal judicial law clerk. Since its founding in 2011, Shiver Hamilton Campbell has obtained a series of outstanding jury verdicts, many of them far exceeding the insurance company’s best offer.

After graduating top of his class at the University of Georgia Law School, Alan decided early on to dedicate his career to representing injured victims of negligence and corporate wrongdoing, turning down multiple job offers from corporate defense firms to pursue a plaintiff’s law practice.

Alan has been recognized as “Legal Elite” by Georgia Trend Magazine, and as a “Super Lawyer” by Atlanta Magazine. The last several years Alan has been a “Top 100” Super Lawyer in Georgia. Alan is also a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (“ABOTA”). Alan holds an “AV-Preeminent” peer-review rating from Martindale-Hubbell Lexis-Nexis, which is the highest rating available. Alan was also named to “Top 100” and “Top 40 under 40″ by the National Trial Lawyers Association and by the American Society of Legal Advocates. Alan is also a Master with the Clarke-Carley Inn of Court associated with the University of Georgia Law School.

Alan’s practice and experience covers a wide range of catastrophic injury cases, including trucking, tractor-trailer and other commercial motor vehicle crashes, motorcycle and other automobile cases, negligent security premises liability, automotive and tire product liability, log truck cases, dram shop (alcohol) liability, road defect cases, workplace injuries, fire and explosion injury cases, premises liability, pedestrian, and wrongful death. He has tried numerous cases to verdict and successfully represented clients in appellate courts in Georgia and other states.

Alan is involved in numerous legal and civic organizations. He has served on numerous non-profit boards, Alan is an Executive Officer and board member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. Alan also served several years on the Georgia State Bar Task Force/Committee on E-Discovery. In addition to his service, Alan is a frequent speaker and presenter at Continuing Legal Education conferences and seminars. Alan and his wife, Morgan Henritze Hamilton, live in Atlanta with their four sons.

Education

University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia

• Juris Doctor, Magna Cum Laude honors:
• Order of the Coif
• Order of Barristers
• Pupil, Joseph Henry Lumpkin Inn of Court
• Best Oralist, Talmadge Moot Court Competition
• Best Brief & National Finalist, Prince Evidence Competition Brooklyn Law School
• Region Champion and Best Brief, The National Moot Court Competition
• Law School Alumni Association Scholarship

Auburn University

• B.S.B.A.
• Major: Accounting

Honors and Awards

• Georgia Super Lawyers, Top 100
• Georgia Super Lawyers
• American Board of Trial Advocates
• Super Lawyers Georgia Rising Stars
• Georgia Trend’s Legal Elite
• National Trial Lawyers Top 40 under 40
• Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Georgia by The National Trial Lawyers: 2013-present
• Chosen by Fulton Daily Report as “Rising Star” 2014 (Top 40 lawyers in Georgia under 40) (2014)
• Martindale-Hubbell “AV” Preeminent Rating (highest rating possible)
• GTLA “Courageous Pursuit of Justice Award” 2016
• Daily Report Jury Verdict Hall of Fame

Bar Admissions

• Georgia
• Georgia Court of Appeals
• Supreme Court of Georgia
• United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Georgia
• Pro Hac Vice Admissions have included AL, AK, FL, MD, NV, NY, SC, TN and VA

Representative Cases

• Hilario v. Newell Recycling of Atlanta, Inc. – $29,250,000 Premises Liability Verdict, Fulton County State Court.
• Tran v. MDV Spartannash – $27,000,000 Trucking Verdict, Muscogee County State Court
• Gomez-Mendez v. JAMCO, et al. – $20,000,000 Premises Liability Verdict, Clayton County
• Wheeler v. Ford Motor Company – $17,000,000 Auto Product Liability Jury Verdict, Clayton County State Court
• A&G Trucking, Inc. v. Pitts, 306 Ga. App. 718, 703 S.E.2d 134 (2010) ($5.47 million jury verdict; affirmed on appeal)
• $30,000,000 Confidential Settlement, Trucking Case
• $19,000,000 Confidential Settlement, Industrial Dust Explosion
• $9,750,000 Negligent Security Settlement
• McKenzie v. Lee Supply Co. – $2,250,000 Commercial Auto Wreck, Dekalb County State Court.
• Jones v. Restaurant Depot, – $1,975,000 Premises Liability Verdict, Fulton County State Court.
• Cox v. Grant – $1.4 Million Auto Negligence Verdict, Henry County State Court
• A&G Trucking, Inc. v. Pitts, 306 Ga. App. 718, 703 S.E.2d 134 (2010) (affirming $ 5.47 million jury verdict)
• Estate of Pitts v. City of Atlanta, 312 Ga. App. 599 (2011)
• Flores v. Exprezit! Stores, 289 Ga. 466 (2011) (amicus curiae for Ga. Trial Lawyers Association) (holding that convenience stores are subject to Georgia’s dram shop law prohibiting sales of alcohol to visibly intoxicated persons who are soon to be driving)
• Williams v. Taser Intern’l, Inc., 2008 WL 192991 (N.D. Ga. 2008) (striking all 12,000 of Defendant’s privilege claims as a sanction for discovery and privilege log abuse)
• Ford Motor Co. v. Gibson, 283 Ga. 398, 659 S.E.2d 346 (2008) (affirming issue preclusion sanction and $13 million verdict)
• Flax v. DaimlerChrysler Corp., 272 S.W.3d 521 (Tenn. 2008), cert denied, 129 S. Ct. 2433 (2009) (affirming punitive damages product liability verdict)

Speaking Engagements

• Investigating All Angles and Theories in an Auto Crash Case, 2024;
• Engaging the Head and the Heart to Maximize Damages, 2023;
• Closing Argument and Asking for Money, 2023;
• Jury Selection and Voir Dire, 2022;
• Effective Use of Motions in LImine, 2022;
• Panel discussion regarding trucking litigation for the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association New Lawyers Division. Covered topics ranging from direct action, to venue, to evidence to seek in discovery, May 2021.
• Discovery and Trial Preparation, 2019;
• Litigation: Soup to Nuts, 2019;
• ICLE Handling Big Cases, 2018;
• GTLA Annual Seminar 2017, Opening Statements
• ICLE Litigation Soup to Nuts, 2017, Trial Preparation
• Opening Statements: Winning from the Beginning, 2016;
• Carlson on Evidence Seminar, 2016, The Visual Trial
• ICLE Superstar Personal Injury Greatest Hits, 2016
• GTLA Holiday Workshop, Discovery: Update on Pending Changes to the Federal Rules and ‘E-Discovery’ Legislation in Georgia, December 2014;
• ICLE Successful Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Practice: Proving Future Damages, September 2013;
• GTLA Fall Workshop, Pre-trial Motions, October 2013;
• ICLE Product Liability: Evidence Code Changes, February 2013;
• GTLA Torts Workshop, March 2013;
• GTLA Annual Seminar, Auto Section, 2013;
• Southern Trial Lawyers, February 2012;
• ICLE Trial & Error, March 2012;
• ICLE of Georgia “Superstar Personal Injury Greatest Hits,” March 2011;
• GTLA Annual Seminar, New Lawyers Division, Spring 2011;
• GTLA Annual Seminar, Products Liability Section, “Suing Foreign Manufacturers,” Spring 2010;
• AIEG Spring Seminar 2010, “Recent Preemption Fights in Auto Products Liability”;
• AIEG Auto Focus Fall Seminar 2010, Bonus Section: Effective Use of Other Similar Incident Evidence;
• AIEG Spring Seminar 2009, Bonus Section: What Makes a Good Product Liability Case;
• Auto Products Liability Paralegals Seminar: Seat Back Defect Cases, Fall 2008;

Professional Associations and Memberships

• State Bar of Georgia
• American Bar Association
• Southern Trial Lawyers Association
• Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
• American Association for Justice
• National Trial Lawyers Association
• Joseph Henry Lumpkin Inn of Court
• Atlanta Bar Association
• Public Justice Foundation
• Federal Bar Association

Published Works

• Trial Practice and Procedure (Co-Author), 62 Mercer L. Rev. 339, 2010.
• Trial Practice and Procedure (Co-Author), 60 Mercer L. Rev. 397, 2008.
• Trial Practice and Procedure (Co-Author), 59 Mercer L. Rev. 423, 2007.

Past Employment Positions

• Law Clerk to William M. Acker, Jr., United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama,
• Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer, LLP, Atlanta, GA

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