Herbert J Chestnut
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Helping Georgia for over 40 years. Personal Injury, Workers' Comp, Longshore
Se habla español.
Martindale Hubbell Peer-Reviewed - Highest possible rating
AV-Preeminent 1997- 2022
Celebrating 40 Years of Service
B.S. Political Science, Georgia Southern University, 1979
J.D. Mercer University, Walter F. George School of Law, 1982
Taggart & Drake, Associate 1982-1983
Taggart Mixson Granoff & Chestnut, Partner 1983
Jones Boykin & Associates, Associate 1983 -1989
Herndon Chestnut Rosenblum & Ashby. Partner 1989 -1991
Chestnut & Ashby, Partner 1992-1995
Herbert Chestnut & Associates, Senior & Managing Partner 1995-present.
At Herbert Chestnut & Associates, we have a combined 78 years of experience in helping clients successfully navigate through the complex legal process. We primarily assist injured workers from the State of Georgia, longshoremen, checkers, and deck and dockworkers at ports nationwide, and defense contractors injured overseas and in war zones worldwide. We also represent injured seamen with claims for Maintenence & Cure and Jones Act relief. We have a network of associated law firms which allows the firm to evaluate serious personal injuries, medical malpractice involving serious injury or death, personal injury claims involving motorcyclists, and those injured by tractor-trailers.
Our practice is not limited to the State of Georgia. As one of the few firms that handle cases involving all federal compensation programs, we are allowed to take claims arising from the ports of California to the battlefields of Iraq or Afghanistan under the Defense Base Act and War Hazards Act.
The firm takes great pride in offering one on one assistance, with each client having the opportunity to communicate openly and as often as is necessary for us to fully understand the intricacies of the client's claim. Only then can we effectively represent a client in any proceeding, by knowing the client, the facts, and the law.
- Workers' Compensation
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Maritime Law
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Appeals, Drug Crimes, Fraud, Gun Crimes, Internet Crimes, Sex Crimes, Theft, Violent Crimes
- Collections
- Construction Law
- Construction Contracts, Construction Defects, Construction Liens, Construction Litigation
- Probate
- Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests
- Nursing Home Abuse
- Social Security Disability
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Mortgages, Residential Real Estate
- Military Law
- Veteran's Benefits
- Longshore & Harbor Workers Compensation
- Free Consultation
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Contingent Fees
- Defense Base Act
- ID Number: Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
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- Division of Longshore & Harbor Workers Compensation
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- Georgia
- State Bar of Georgia
- ID Number: 123826
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- U.S. Supreme Court
- ID Number: United States Supreme Court
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- English: Spoken, Written
- Spanish: Spoken, Written
- State Bar of Georgia
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- Activities: Workers Compensation Section; Board of Director, Younger Lawyers Section, Savannah 1993-1995; Cobb County Bar Association 1995-2010; Savannah Bar Association 1982-1996, 2020-present; Speaker, Independent Medical Examinations, Loyola Longshore Conference, 2012; Martindale Hubbell Peer Reviewed - AV rating - 1997-2022
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- Bar of the Supreme Court of the United State
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- Savannah Bar Association
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- Activities: Board Member, YLS 1993-1995
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- American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys
- Recipient - Best Law Firms in Georgia
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- The Legal Network
- Recipient - Top Lawyers in Georgia
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- Cobb County Bar Association
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- Consumer Business Review
- Recipient - Workers' Comp Attorney of the Year
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