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About Tom Giannotti
Tom Giannotti is a personal injury and wrongful death lawyer at Butler Kahn who handles cases throughout Georgia. Before focusing exclusively on serious injury cases, he represented clients in child custody, divorce, and criminal defense matters in state and federal courts in southeast Georgia, where he built a reputation for honesty and integrity with judges and opposing counsel. Tom is a Double Dawg, having earned both his undergraduate degree and his J.D. from the University of Georgia. In law school he tried his first jury trial as a student prosecutor with the Oconee County District Attorney's Office.
He is an active member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and a graduate of its Leadership Education and Advanced Direction (LEAD) Program. His practice covers automobile wrecks, trucking accidents, motorcycle accidents, premises liability claims, and wrongful death cases. He has secured millions in verdicts and settlements for his clients, including a $10 million wrongful death result.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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