Like the dog who liked to chase trucks
Saturday morning at the State Bar of Georgia midyear meeting, nobody else was nominated for president-elect to serve as president from June 2011 to June 2012. The other offices are hotly contested, but I don't have to campaign again. This morning, I feel a little like my pet beagle who liked to chase trucks until, when I was seven, he caught one.
In this era of enormous budget pressures on state government, the job of shoring up support for adequate funding of the judicial branch of state government could be all consuming.
However, I will also seek to promote virtue in the legal profession (broad topic!) and pursue concrete improvements in the judicial system in Georgia.
Between an active law practice and the demands of this new role, I will have to manage my time carefully for the next two and a half years. But the insights and exposure inherent in such a position only enhance the capacity to represent our clients.
Ken Shigley is a trucking safety trial attorney representing seriously injured people and families of people killed in tractor trailer, big rig, semi, intermodal container freight, log truck, cement truck, dump truck, log truck and bus accidents statewide in Georgia.
Mr. Shigley has extensive experience representing parties in interstate trucking collision cases, and in the past two years has spoken at national interstate trucking litigation seminars in Chicago (trucking insurance), New Orleans (trial tactics and side underride issues), St. Louis (punitive damages), San Francisco (dealing with insolvent trucking companies), Atlanta (trucking insurance, closing argument), Nashville (use of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations), and Amelia Island (overview of trucking litigation).
He served as chair of the Southeastern Motor Carrier Litigation Institute in 2005, is a national board member of the Interstate Trucking Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice, and is on the National Advisory Board for the Association of Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America.
A Certified Civil Trial Advocate of the National Board of Trial Advocacy, he has been listed as a "Super Lawyer" (Atlanta Magazine), among the "Legal Elite" (Georgia Trend Magazine), and in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers (Martindale). In addition to trucking litigation, he has broad experience in products liability, catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, spinal cord injury, brain injury and burn injury cases. Currently he is Treasurer of the 41,000 member State Bar of Georgiam and the unopposed nominee for President-Elect to serve as President in 2011-12.This post is subject to our ethical disclaimer.
