Jonathan P. Hayes – Managing Partner, Goldstein Hayes Trial Lawyers
Jonathan P. Hayes is the Managing Partner of Goldstein Hayes Trial Lawyers, an Atlanta boutique trial firm recognized for representing clients in catastrophic injury, commercial transportation, and wrongful death litigation. For more than 25 years, he has devoted his practice to complex civil litigation involving commercial motor vehicle collisions, product liability, medical negligence, traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, construction and industrial accidents, drowning incidents, and other negligence cases resulting in permanent injury or loss of life.
Commercial trucking and transportation litigation represents a cornerstone of Mr. Hayes's practice. He regularly represents clients in technically demanding matters involving transportation companies, healthcare systems, manufacturers, contractors, property owners, and other corporate defendants where liability depends upon electronic evidence, transportation safety standards, accident reconstruction, engineering, medicine, economics, vocational rehabilitation, and life-care planning.
His experience includes a $150 million trucking wrongful death verdict, and he has helped recover more than $400 million in commercial motor vehicle verdicts and settlements. Goldstein Hayes Trial Lawyers has recovered verdicts and settlements approaching $1 billion for injured clients and their families throughout Georgia and in select matters nationwide.
Known for disciplined case preparation and strategic advocacy, Mr. Hayes develops every case with the expectation that it may ultimately be decided before a jury. His litigation practice has earned the confidence of attorneys throughout Georgia and across the country who associate him as trial counsel or refer complex catastrophic injury, wrongful death, and commercial transportation matters requiring substantial litigation resources and courtroom experience.
Mr. Hayes has earned Martindale-Hubbell's AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rating, recognizing the highest standards of professional excellence and ethical conduct. He has also been recognized by Best Lawyers, Georgia Super Lawyers, and The National Trial Lawyers. His professional affiliations include the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Atlanta Bar Association, American Bar Association, National Drowning Prevention Alliance, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
A native Atlantan, Mr. Hayes earned his bachelor's degree from the College of Charleston before receiving his Juris Doctor from Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law. He represents clients throughout Georgia and is frequently associated by attorneys as trial counsel in select catastrophic injury, wrongful death, and commercial transportation litigation nationwide.
