GEORGIA

Scott Monge

My passion for helping innocent injury victims comes down to the Platinum Rule: Treat people the same way your friends and family would want to be treated when facing a life challenge. You see, I’m on a lifelong mission to help innocent injury victims battling against big insurance companies. This calling started when I launched my practice in 1993 in a rented one-person office in Atlanta. Today, Monge & Associates is recognized as one of the most influential law firms in America. Each team member is chosen for their passion and commitment to improving the lives of innocent injury victims. Thanks to our legal work with thousands of innocent personal injury and car accident victims, we’re regularly featured on television, print media, the internet, and many other media platforms. In fact, our commitment to creating an exceptional client experience comes with a first-of-its-kind guarantee. If you’re not totally satisfied with how you’re treated during the initial 30 days after you hire our personal injury attorney in Atlanta, you can take your file - no questions asked - and we won’t charge you anything. This is how confident I am that our clients will have a positive, life-changing experience at our law firm. Look, life is all about helping others. Every day I see how those suffering from an unexpected injury lose because they don’t know their legal rights. So I wrote the book “Secrets to Win Your Injury Case” and give it away for free. I firmly believe you make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give back to others. That’s why we’re here to make good things happen for other people. Our “Gift of Hearing” charity provides free hearing aids to those suffering from hearing loss who can’t afford hearing aids. This program started after I saw the suffering my mother-in-law faced with her hearing loss from working in a factory for 50 years. “The fact is, when one family member suffers from an injury or life catastrophe, it affects the entire family.” Scott Monge Throughout my career, I’ve also volunteered on various Bar Committees, served as featured speakers at legal seminars for hundreds of lawyers, and been involved in a host of non-profit causes, ranging from helping the homeless to providing assistance to school children in financial need. Outside of my legal work, I’m a happily married family man with two sons and a passion for health and fitness. I wake up early, without an alarm clock, for weight workouts 7 days a week and squeeze in cardio whenever possible. After all, the way you start your morning determines the tone for the rest of the day. We all have the same 24 hours, and my goal is to squeeze in as much as possible during each day. To rest is to rust. There’s plenty of time to sleep in the grave. Boosted by this commitment to health and living life with a positive outlook, I believe the law is the ultimate sport because it is played 24/7 with the goal of getting the best results for our clients. It’s this same passion in my personal life that I bring to fighting for justice for innocent injury victims hurt through no fault of their own.

Ken Riley

Birmingham, AL

Ken Riley was born and raised in Alexander City, Alabama. After obtaining his business degree at the University of Alabama, Mr. Riley went on to complete his legal studies at Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. For over eighteen years, Mr. Riley has dedicated his law practice to helping injured victims obtain fair and just settlements and verdicts. Mr. Riley tailors his practice to not only focus on people involved in catastrophic accidents, but also those injured by defective medical devices, child-related accidents, as well as victims of nursing home abuse. Mr. Riley is perennially recognized as a Super Lawyer Honoree for 11 years, a national peer-nominated publication that names the best attorneys across all 50 states, in the area of Personal Injury Litigation. In 2017, he was included in Super Lawyers’ top 50 Alabama attorneys list. He has achieved an AV Preeminent rating, the highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethical standards by his peers. He is also recognized by Birmingham Magazine as one of Birmingham’s “Top Attorneys,” and has received multiple multi-million dollar settlements for his clients.

Bruce A. Hagen

Decatur, GA

Bruce A. Hagen decided very early on that he was going to devote his entire career to helping injured people. After graduating from George Washington University Law School in 1986, Bruce spent the early years of his practice training under incredible mentors before launching his own law firm in 1992 in Atlanta. He took on auto accidents, truck wrecks, slip and fall cases, and listened to every victim that came his way to learn everything he could about personal injury law. Practice makes better - with more than 200 civil trials under his belt, Bruce built a name for himself in Georgia courtrooms and amongst his peers as The People’s Lawyer. The verdicts he won and settlements he obtained, have changed the lives of his clients for the better. In return, his clients kept coming back with more cases and Bruce built his practice the old school way - through word of mouth and personal referrals from satisfied customers. As his law practice grew, Bruce pursued a long-time passion and began representing injured cyclists and doing advocacy work on behalf of the cycling community in Georgia. Through Bike Law Georgia, Bruce spends a substantial part of his time hosting educational programs for bicyclists, drivers, and law enforcement officers to help ensure that people are aware of both their rights and responsibilities, as well as to help promote safety for all road users. Bruce is also heavily involved in working with both State legislators and Municipal leadership in crafting laws intended to help protect bicyclists and pedestrians. Throughout his legal career, Bruce Hagen has appeared on television and radio to discuss personal injury law and to provide a legal opinion on current situations on the news. He is a frequent guest on 680 The Fan and his weekly podcast “Where Sports Meets The Law” is a listeners favorite. Bruce Hagen co-authored the book Litigating Minor Impact Soft Tissue Cases Vol. 1, 2 & 3 with trial lawyer Karen K. Koehler and Dr. Michael D. Freeman. By sharing his knowledge and experience in this book, Bruce hopes to shape the next generation of personal injury lawyers. First published in 2015, it has been updated annually and has become a tool for plaintiff’s attorneys nationwide. Bruce Hagen has been recognized as a Georgia Super Lawyer for twenty consecutive years. In 2016, his son Matt Hagen joined him in his law practice as an attorney and has been recognized as a Georgia Rising Star for eight consecutive years. Community has always been at the heart of Bruce’s career. His law firm and legal team are involved in a variety of community outreach activities ranging from sponsoring various bike events, to collecting used bikes for kids, and teaching bike safety lessons at a local middle school. As the founding partner of Hagen Rosskopf LLC, Bruce Hagen is no stranger to the challenges of being a small business owner and running a successful law firm. One of his best accomplishments is the team at Hagen Rosskopf, many of whom have been with the firm for decades and who consider each other family. Although Bruce Hagen already has an impressive legal career to boast about, he remains focused on the needs of his clients and the rapidly changing legal landscape for injured people in Georgia.

Darren W. Penn

Atlanta, GA

Darren W. Penn is a trial lawyer handling a wide variety of tort and business litigation in state and federal courts across the United States. His practice areas include products liability, trucking and auto collisions, wrongful death, medical malpractice, aviation, business tort, entertainment, and intellectual property cases. He began his career in 1994 as a trial lawyer for State Farm, trying over a hundred bench and jury trials. He was a founding member of Penn & Pate LLP, then merged into Scherffius, Ballard Still & Ayres LLP, and later co-founded Harris Penn Lowry LLP, securing over $750 million in verdicts and settlements. He is the founder of Penn Law LLC. Darren is past President of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association (GTLA), a member of the Board and past Chair of the Georgia State Bar’s General Practice & Trial Law Section, and past Chair of the Civil Justice PAC of Georgia. He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell, consistently named to Super Lawyers, Georgia Trend’s Legal Elite, and the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in America and Georgia. He earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Georgia.

John Fitch

Columbus, OH

John Fitch is a top-rated Ohio personal injury lawyer with over thirty years of experience. John Fitch is the principal and founder of The Fitch Law Firm, and has handled hundreds of complex damage cases, including catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases arising out of automobile, medical negligence and product liability claims. John Fitch Fitch is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest peer review rating possible and has been awarded a 10/10 Superb Rating by independent attorney review organization AVVO.

Michael L. Goldberg

Atlanta, GA

Michael L. Goldberg is a partner at Fried Goldberg LLC, representing victims of catastrophic personal injuries or wrongful death, primarily in trucking and commercial vehicle accidents. He has been lead counsel on 15 cases with multi-million dollar verdicts and was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2013.