About William Ballard
William L. Ballard brings more than 35 years of trial experience to Harris Lowry Manton LLP. His practice focuses on medical malpractice, but also covers product liability, serious motor vehicle collisions, and other complex personal injury litigation. Bill earned Martindale-Hubbell's preeminent rating and has been recognized in Super Lawyers every year since 2004, including six times in the Top 100 in Georgia. He began his career in a medical malpractice defense firm before turning to plaintiff representation.
Among the cases he remembers most is a $200,000 recovery for a young woman with cerebral palsy, in which he demonstrated that her condition resulted from a delayed delivery rather than the infection initially blamed by the delivering physician. Bill received an economics degree from Vanderbilt University and his law degree from Emory University. He is a frequent speaker at legal seminars and mediates medical malpractice and other tort cases.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Harris Lowry Manton LLP
These results are credited to Harris Lowry Manton LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Fulton County jury awarded $47.7 million after a defective rear seat latch in a 2000 Lincoln LS collapsed during a crash, severing a six-year-old girl's thoracic spinal cord and leaving her paralyzed.
A Floyd County jury awarded $43.5 million to the family of Morris Ellison, an 80-year-old man who suffered malnourishment, severe dehydration, and an untreated broken hip before dying at a Rome, Georgia nursing home whose operator had diverted Medicare and Medicaid funds from patient care.
A DeKalb County jury awarded $40 million to Jessica Mundy and her husband after her 2004 Ford Explorer spontaneously shifted from park into reverse, striking and running over her, after the trial team showed Ford had known about the 'false park' transmission defect for decades.
A Fulton County jury awarded $35 million to the family of Joshua Chang, a 21-year-old Yale student killed when his car struck a concrete planter on the shoulder of Batesville Road, finding the City of Milton 93% responsible for leaving a dangerous obstacle in the right-of-way.
A Gwinnett County jury awarded $30.5 million in November 2016 after finding that Gwinnett Medical Center and an attending physician failed to act on an ultrasound showing abnormal fetal blood flow at 35 weeks, delaying an emergency C-section long enough to deprive a newborn of oxygen and cause permanent spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
