Matt Wetherington has spent his career handling the cases that demand the most from a litigator: catastrophic injuries, wrongful deaths, and commercial trucking crashes where the other side shows up with an institutional defense and the resources to sustain it. He has recovered more than $500 million for injured clients and their families, including an $11 million result in a commercial trucking wrongful death case and a $12 million jury verdict in a case that went the full distance to trial.
Those numbers reflect not just outcomes but a willingness to build a case to its full value and take it to a jury when the defense will not offer a resolution that reflects the actual damages. He is a member of the Tire Safety Group, an organization focused on preventing crashes caused by preventable tire failures, and the founder of Auto Accident Survivors of Georgia, a support organization for crash victims and their families. The ALM Verdicts Hall of Fame has recognized his trial results, and the Daily Report named him to its On the Rise list of Georgia attorneys.
What separates Matt Wetherington’s approach to commercial trucking cases from general personal injury practice is the depth of the pre-litigation investigation. The ELD records, the driver qualification file, the carrier’s internal compliance history, and the corporate communications between the driver and dispatch are the records that determine whether a commercial truck accident case is worth what the defense is willing to pay or worth what the damages actually demand.
The difference between those two numbers is often in the millions, and closing that gap requires an attorney who understands federal carrier compliance law, knows how to build a regulatory violations argument into a punitive damages claim, and has the trial record to make the defense believe every demand is a demand he is prepared to put in front of a Georgia jury.
Undergraduate Mercer University, Macon, Georgia Bachelor of Arts First-generation college graduate from Climax, Georgia, who worked his way through Mercer University
Law School Mercer University, Walter F. George School of Law, Macon, Georgia Juris Doctor, 2010 Admitted to the Georgia Bar, 2010 Attended on a tuition scholarship
Academic Honors at Walter F. George CALI Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Walter F. George Legal Writing Program American Bar Association Client Counseling Competition Quarter-Finalist, 2008 and 2009 Edward J. Grassman Tuition Scholarship for Community Service
