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Mr. Neal is a second generation Georgia Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Trial Lawyer who is AV Pre-eminent rated with nearly a quarter century of in depth trial and litigation experience, he is a Lifetime Member of the Multi-Million Dollar and Million Dollar Advocates Forum, known as the "Top Trial Lawyers of America," he is a Member of the National Trial Lawyers: Top 100, he is a Lifetime Charter Member of Best Attorneys of America, and he has been chosen as one of the "Top Lawyers of Georgia" 2014-2017. Mr. Neal is also a Member of the Melvin M. Belli Society, the Southern Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Association for Justice. Mr. Neal has 24 years of intense trial experience, including a three year stint out of law school as a state felony prosecutor where he tried a broad array of criminal cases - from murder to shoplifting. Mr. Neal has tried hundreds of cases to juries and has set records in McDuffie County Superior Court, ($1,088,000 collected - largest personal injury verdict in history), Richmond County Superior Court ($4,000,000 collected - largest wrongful death settlement against local government in history), and the State of Georgia ($1,500,000 collected - largest settlement against a public school teacher and principal in history) and he has created landmark appellate case-law on complicated issues involving sovereign and official immunity, Vann v. Finley, 313 Ga. App. 153, 721 S.E.2d 156 (2011), certiorari denied 2012 Ga. Lexis 387, insurance coverage in drunk driving situations involving a company vehicle, Great American Life Ins. Co. v. Anderson, No. 15-12540, D. C. No. 1:14-cv-00112-JRH-BKE (11th Cir., Feb. 8, 2017), punitive damages involving tampering with witnesses and evidence, Hill v. USA Truck, Inc., 2007 WL 1574545 (D.S.C.), and the reversal of a malice murder verdict where Mr. Neal subsequently obtained an acquittal of his client on all counts in Lindsey v. State, 271 Ga. App. 657 (1999).

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