Jeb Butler
About Jeb Butler
Jeb Butler founded Butler Kahn after earlier work at his father's firm, Butler Wooten and Fryhofer, and stints as a law clerk and prosecutor. He handles serious personal injury and wrongful death cases with an approach centered on meticulous preparation rather than courtroom theatrics. Jeb was part of the trial team that won a $150 million verdict against Chrysler in the Walden case, a product liability matter involving fuel tank placement on Jeep Grand Cherokees. He handled a police chase case that led to policy changes protecting innocent lives, and won a $500,000 verdict for a sexual abuse survivor. Other disclosed results include a $45 million motorcycle accident settlement, a $3,973,260 boating accident settlement, and a $1,250,000 pedestrian settlement. At the University of Georgia School of Law, Jeb graduated magna cum laude in the top 10% of his class, published on the Law Review, and earned the Order of the Coif and Order of the Barristers. He also holds a B.A. from Vanderbilt University. After law school he clerked for Judge Lisa Godbey Wood in the Southern District of Georgia, then prosecuted cases at the Clayton County District Attorney's Office.
Notable case results
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 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 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.
Jeb Butler won a $500,000 jury verdict in Muscogee County Superior Court for a woman who was sexually abused by her Columbus pastor beginning when she was 15 years old.
Against Chrysler in product liability case involving Jeep rear fuel tank placement
In motorcycle accident case
After boating accident
For sexual abuse survivor
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
