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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.

• Longshore & Harbor Workers Compensation

• Free Consultation
• Credit Cards Accepted
• Contingent Fees

Defense Base Act

ID Number: Office of Workers' Compensation Programs

Since 1982

Division of Longshore & Harbor Workers Compensation

Since 1982

Georgia

State Bar of Georgia

ID Number: 123826

Since 1982

U.S. Supreme Court

ID Number: United States Supreme Court

Since 1987

State Bar of Georgia

Member

1982 - Current

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

Bar of the Supreme Court of the United State

Member

1987 - 2022

Savannah Bar Association

Member

1982 - 2022

Activities: Board Member, YLS 1993-1995

American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys

Recipient - Best Law Firms in Georgia

2017 - 2018

The Legal Network

Recipient - Top Lawyers in Georgia

2014 - 2015