Jonathan Barnes

Personal Injury Lawyer at Hughes & Coleman Injury Lawyers
Louisville, KY4 years experienceAdmitted 2021

About Jonathan Barnes

Jonathan Barnes is a Personal Injury Attorney at Hughes & Coleman Injury Lawyers in Kentucky. He has secured millions in compensation for injury victims throughout Kentucky.

Barnes earned his Juris Doctor magna cum laude from the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law and his Bachelor of Science in Finance and Political Science from the University of Kentucky. He was admitted to the State Bar of Kentucky in 2021 and is also admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky.

Barnes has been recognized as a National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 member in both 2024 and 2025. He secured the highest slip-and-fall verdict in Kentucky in 2022. During law school, his research note 'Applicable Requirements for Agency Defense: Closing a Circuit Split Regarding the EPA's Clean Air Act Title V Interpretation' was published in the Journal of Animal and Environmental Law.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Hughes & Coleman Injury Lawyers

These results are credited to Hughes & Coleman Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$4.2 millionVerdictTop 20 in Tennessee · #9

A Davidson County jury awarded Charles Ray Peterson Jr. $12 million after a two-vehicle chain-reaction crash on Christmas Day 2017 cost him both legs, but the signed judgment entered against the defendants totals $4,203,547 once Tennessee's statutory damages cap was applied to the verdict.

Fifth Circuit Court, Davidson County, Tennessee (Docket No. 18C2027) · 2021Truck AccidentsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Kentucky
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Kentucky, admitted 2021
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky
National Trial Lawyers Association
Kentucky Justice Association
American Association for Justice

Awards & recognition

National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 (2024, 2025)

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$74 million · Boone County Jury Returns $74 Million Verdict Against Eaton Asphalt in a Mother's Death

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.