About Justin Miller

Justin D. Miller is a partner at Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys. He focuses his practice on personal injury, wrongful death, catastrophic injuries, and civil rights. Justin graduated from Morehouse College and St. John's University School of Law. To date, he has fought and recovered millions of dollars for his clients and has litigated and won several jury trials throughout Georgia.

In 2019, he led the trial team that won a $10 million verdict against an apartment complex for negligent security. He was also counsel for the family of George Floyd and was instrumental in helping secure a record $27 million settlement against the City of Minneapolis. He is additionally counsel for the family of Rayshard Brooks and was a member of the legal team representing the family of Ahmaud Arbery. Justin is a longtime member of the Gate City Bar Association, the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, the National Bar Association, the 100 Black Men of Atlanta, and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.

Proven verdicts and settlements

Ben Crump, with co-counsel Antonio Romanucci and L. Chris Stewart, negotiated a $27 million settlement between the family of George Floyd and the City of Minneapolis, announced by the family's lawyers as the largest pretrial settlement of a civil rights wrongful-death claim in American history. The city council approved the payment unanimously in March 2021, while jury selection in Derek Chauvin's murder trial was underway blocks away.

U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota / City of Minneapolis, MN · 2021Civil RightsRead the full story →
$1 millionSettlement

Atlanta's City Council voted 15-0 to approve a $1 million settlement with the family of Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old man shot and killed by an Atlanta police officer in June 2020.

City of Atlanta, Georgia · 2022Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

St. John's University School of Law
J.D.
Morehouse College
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Georgia

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