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About Janeen Smith
Janeen Smith is a personal injury lawyer at Butler Kahn who focuses on complex cases involving roadway defects, truck wrecks, medical malpractice, fires, explosions, electrocution, toxic exposure, severe burns, and wrongful death. She began her career defending large corporations and insurance companies, gaining insight into how insurers investigate and evaluate claims. After handling several pro bono plaintiff cases, she discovered her preference for plaintiffs' work and joined Butler Kahn.
Janeen grew up in Fort Pierce, Florida, and earned her undergraduate degree from Florida Atlantic University. She earned her J.D. from Emory University School of Law, where she was a member of the moot court society, received the Graduating Woman of Excellence recognition, and won a Medal for Excellence in Advocacy at a national moot court competition. She is also a graduate of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association's LEAD Program.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Butler Kahn
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Jeb Butler co-tried the first Jeep rear-fuel-tank wrongful-death case to a Georgia jury, which returned a $150 million verdict in 2015 later affirmed at $40 million by the Georgia Supreme Court in 2018.
Jeb Butler and Matt Kahn, alongside co-counsel, secured a $40 million settlement against GDOT, a fence contractor, and a construction management firm after a guardrail left in disrepair for months on I-85 contributed to the death of Catrice Hunter.
Jeb Butler and Matt Kahn won a $30 million settlement for a 14-year-old North Paulding High School student who suffered a traumatic brain injury after a speeding teen driver struck her in a school-zone crosswalk.
A Henry County jury awarded $29.4 million against PeachState Hospitality after one of its housekeepers, hired without a background check despite a prior statutory rape charge, used a master key to repeatedly assault a 13-year-old girl staying at the company's Residence Inn in McDonough, Georgia.
Mark Cohen, 54, died on December 11, 2021, when Mary Angela Bell swerved across the centerline and struck his minivan head-on in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Bell admitted liability, so the April 2024 trial in the State Court of Georgia addressed damages only. The jury awarded $28 million, made up of $26.5 million for the full value of Mr. Cohen's life and $1.5 million for his pre-impact fright, shock and terror.
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