Personal Injury Blog By The Cochran Firm Atlanta

AUGUSTA, Ga., Aug. 15, 2019 — Best Lawyers®, the only purely peer-review™ guide to the legal profession, announced the 2020 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America on August 15, 2019. Lawyers named to The Best Lawyers in America© publication were recognized by their peers in the legal industry for their professional excellence in 146 […]

We practice a legal philosophy that honors the vision and experience of Johnnie Cochran. Our attorneys are committed and passionate about their profession, and they put seamless effort into upholding the standards set by the founding partners. The Cochran Firm Atlanta congratulates Hezekiah Sistrunk as well as Angela Mason (AT Dothan), Karen Evans (DC), Derek […]

Meet The Cochran Firm Attorneys Hezekiah Sistrunk, Karen Evans, and Ibeiere N. Seck at the 2019 Trial Lawyers Summit in South Beach Miami this January! You won’t want to miss the Champions of Justice Discussion Panel honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on 21st. Date: January 20-23, 2019 Location: Loews Miami Beach […]

The National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) recently appointed and seated the National Board of Complex Litigation Lawyers (NBCLL), a division of NBTA. NBCLL brings together exceptional experience and expertise of judges, attorneys and law professors – all national leaders in complex litigation. The purpose of NBCLL will be threefold: To develop a national board-certified […]

Tomorrow a Fulton County Grand Jury will convene to decide whether or not to indict former Atlanta Police Officer James Burns in the unlawful killing of Caine Rogers. Rogers was shot in the head on June 22, 2016 on Monroe Place in Midtown Atlanta. Two months after the tragic shooting, on August 31, another Fulton […]

Hezekiah Sistrunk, of The Cochran Firm, has been selected to the 2017 list as a member of the Nation’s Top One Percent by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel. NADC is an organization dedicated to promoting the highest standards of legal excellence. Its mission is to objectively recognize the attorneys who elevate the standards of […]

Mr. Hall, along with his wife, Christina, their two sons, their son’s girlfriend and a grandchild, was attempting to use a parking pass to gain access in a parking area at a MotoCross event at The Georgia World Congress Center on February 25th where his son was participating.  Off duty APD Sergeant Mathieu Cadeau was working traffic for that event and […]

What is it like for you to be a female attorney? I really see myself as a lawyer first and my gender second.  However, there have been many unique challenges to being a female attorney, including being taken seriously as a lead trial attorney, and having defense and co-defense counsel not wanting to include me in […]

“The day my dad died was a perfect Southern California day. Twelve years have passed since he died of an inoperable brain tumor, and there is not a day that I don’t think about him. His engaging sense of humor, his awesome advice, just his calming presence in my life. I’m certainly not the first […]