Morrison & Hughes Law Firm: Decatur, Georgia

Morrison & Hughes Law Firm keeps a Decatur office on Clairemont Avenue and five more across Georgia, in Marietta, Alpharetta and Roswell, Fayetteville, Hiram and LaGrange. Founding partners Tristan B. Morrison and Leon Hilliard Hughes each have more than two decades of experience, and the site names four more lawyers and ten paralegals and support staff, including a director of operations, an intake manager and a medical records clerk. The practice covers car, truck and motorcycle collisions, slip and falls, catastrophic injuries and amputations, dog bites and wrongful death, and it carries workers’ compensation and Social Security disability alongside them. Its published record includes what the site describes as the largest documented workers’ compensation settlement in Georgia history for a single injured worker.

Key facts

Phone: 404-529-8326
Address: 125 Clairemont Ave., Suite 430, Decatur, GA
Other offices: Marietta at 3834 Austell Rd., Suite A; Alpharetta and Roswell at 2650 Holcomb Bridge Rd., Ste 620; Fayetteville at 270 North Jeff Davis Dr.; Hiram at 848 Hiram Acworth Hwy., Suite 100; and LaGrange at 133 Main St., Abbott Building.
Website: https://morrisonhugheslaw.com/
Attorneys: Tristan B. Morrison and Leon Hilliard Hughes, founding partners; Paul L. Jenkins, partner, whom the site credits with more than two thousand disability hearings; Robert Burke, partner; Kait Hayden, criminal defense partner; and Nick Ponzio.
Staff: the site also names Amy Newton, senior paralegal; paralegals Damariz Ortiz, Amada Rivero and Gabriela Cohen; Brenda Eaddy, director of operations; Regina Ozbun, executive legal coordinator; Melissa Plumlee, intake manager; Datha Tolar, medical records clerk; and support staff Quint Kimbro and Rachel Givarz.
Languages: The site says Spanish-speaking staff are at every office.
Availability: The site offers consultations 24/7, including virtual and video consultations and home visits.
Service area: The site names Bartow, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gordon, Gwinnett, Paulding and Whitfield counties, and Georgia statewide.

Practice areas

Vehicle collisions: car accidents, truck accidents and motorcycle accidents.
Premises claims: slip and falls.
Catastrophic injuries: catastrophic injuries and amputations.
Work and benefits claims: workers’ compensation and Social Security disability.
Dog bites and wrongful death: animal attack claims and claims brought after a fatal injury.

Who it serves

People injured in Decatur and across DeKalb County.
Clients across the eleven counties the site names, reached through six offices.
Spanish-speaking clients, at every office.
Injured workers and disability claimants, which the firm carries as named practice strands.

Verdicts and settlements

These are the personal injury and workers’ compensation case results the firm publishes on its results page, in the firm’s own figures and descriptions.

$20 million: trucking collision, case details confidential.
$10+ million: defective product, a commercial electrical device explosion.
$9.7 million: workers’ compensation, which the site describes as the largest documented settlement in Georgia workers’ compensation history for a single injured worker.
$4.5 million: traumatic brain injury, a ladder fall causing head and face injury.
$3.5 million: truck accident, semi truck failure to yield, severe neck trauma and spine surgery.
$3 million: car accident, single mother of five, catastrophic leg injuries from a red light runner.
$3 million: brain injury, negligent heavy machinery operation.
$2.9 million: catastrophic injury, work accident.
$2.1 million: multi car accident, four car chain reaction, three surgeries.
$1.8 million: tractor trailer accident, mother with two small children in the vehicle.
$1.5 million: pedestrian hit by a tractor trailer, elderly woman struck in a crosswalk.
$1.2 million: rear-end accident, commercial moving vehicle, employment status disputed.
$623,000: workers’ compensation, career truck driver, back and neck injuries, three spinal fusions, attorney Paul Jenkins.
$600,000: go-kart accident, brake failure twice, broken neck, cervical fusion.
$575,000: car accident, accident reconstruction, at fault party denial.
$500,000: workplace injury, school bus duty, student driver hit from behind, video evidence.
$475,000: fall injury, pet friendly hotel, hidden hole covered by pine straw, severe ankle fracture.
$400,000: construction workplace injury, day laborer, crushed right foot, three surgeries.
$275,000: auto accident with a rideshare driver, father and son T-boned, brain injury.
$215,000: back injury at work, car dealership service manager, retaliation.

The firm also publishes a separate list of criminal defense outcomes on the same page, recorded as charges faced against the result obtained rather than as money figures. The firm publishes this note with its results: “Past results do not guarantee future outcomes; case results referenced reflect specific circumstances and should not be interpreted as predictions in any other matter.”

Notable firm details

The site describes its $9.7 million workers’ compensation result as the largest documented settlement in Georgia workers’ compensation history for a single injured worker.
The firm names ten paralegals and support staff on its site, including a director of operations, an intake manager and a medical records clerk, alongside six lawyers.
It offers virtual consultations, video consultations and home visits rather than office meetings only.
Its published results describe the mechanism of each case, from a ladder fall and a go-kart brake failure to a hidden hole covered by pine straw at a pet friendly hotel.

• Its website publishes a work comp toolkit and a low impact speed calculator alongside its blog, and the site reports Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Million Dollar Advocates Forum, National Trial Lawyers Top 100, Motor Vehicle Advocates Top 25, an AV Preeminent rating, Client Champion and Lawyers of Distinction.

Frequently asked questions about Morrison & Hughes

Which injury claims does Morrison & Hughes Law Firm handle?

The site lists car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, slip and falls, catastrophic injuries and amputations, wrongful death and dog bites, along with workers’ compensation and Social Security disability.

Which case types does the contingency fee cover?

Morrison & Hughes Law Firm says, “On personal injury and workers’ compensation cases, no fee unless we recover,” and that personal injury, workers’ compensation and Social Security disability cases are handled on a contingency fee, with the initial consultation always free and confidential.

Must a client come to the office at all?

No. The site offers virtual consultations, video consultations and home visits.

Where are the firm’s offices?

Decatur at 125 Clairemont Ave., Suite 430, with further offices in Marietta, Alpharetta and Roswell, Fayetteville, Hiram and LaGrange.

How much has the firm recovered for injured workers?

Its largest workers’ compensation result is $9.7 million, which Morrison & Hughes Law Firm describes as the largest documented settlement in Georgia workers’ compensation history for a single injured worker. Twenty personal injury and workers’ compensation outcomes are published in all, down to a $215,000 workplace back injury, with a separate list of criminal defense outcomes and a note that past results do not guarantee future outcomes.