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About Jeff Shiver

Jeff Shiver is a founding partner at Shiver Hamilton Campbell and focuses his practice on serious personal injury litigation. He earned his Juris Doctor cum laude and his B.B.A. in Insurance from the University of Georgia. Shiver has been recognized as a Georgia Super Lawyers Top 100 attorney and as one of Georgia's Legal Elite by Georgia Trend magazine. The Daily Report selected him as one of 13 lawyers under 40 to watch.

In 2023, he served as lead trial attorney securing a $140 million wrongful death verdict in DeKalb State Court, the largest in Georgia history at the time, arising from a fatal apartment fire at Venetian Hills Apartments. The verdict was subsequently vacated on appeal by the Georgia Court of Appeals and the case remanded for retrial. His practice covers automobile collisions, trucking and tractor-trailer wrecks, motorcycle accidents, catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, product liability, professional malpractice, premises liability, and nursing home abuse.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$140 millionVerdict

A DeKalb County State Court jury awarded $140 million on December 20, 2023 to the estate of George Hughes, a 63-year-old tenant who burned to death in a March 2017 fire at the Venetian Hills Apartments in southwest Atlanta, finding the landlord's fire safety failures caused his death, but the judgment did not stand: on October 31, 2025 the Georgia Court of Appeals vacated it, holding that the jury was wrongly instructed under general premises liability law in addition to Georgia's narrower landlord-tenant statute, and the case was remanded for a full retrial that remains pending.

DeKalb County State Court, Georgia · 2023Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Georgia School of Law
J.D., Cum Laude
University of Georgia
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Georgia

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