Grayson Workers' Compensation Lawyers

Workers compensation attorney with 25 years of litigation experience. Mediator and former Gwinnett County Magistrate Court Judge. U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) with 25 years of military service.

Derick C. Villanueva is a solo-practice attorney and offers knowledgeable, experienced and aggressive legal counsel to individuals who have been seriously injured or killed in accidents through no fault of their own. Mr. Villanueva has worked hard to obtain favorable outcomes and results for his clients. Mr. Villanueva received his BA Magna Cum Laude from Emory Universtiy, JD and Masters from Syracuse University. Mr. Villanueva has earned the Martindale Hubbell Client Distinction Award, acceptance in The National Association of Distinguished Counsel Top One Percent, achieved an Excellent Rating in Avvo, acceptance in the Top 40 Under 40...

Legal Accomplishments

Gary Martin Hays’ legal accomplishments include being a member of the prestigious Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a society limited to those attorneys who have received a settlement or verdict of at least $2 million. He has been recognized by Atlanta Magazine as one of Georgia’s top workers’ compensation lawyers as voted on by other lawyers in Georgia. Gary frequently lectures to other attorneys regarding personal injury and workers’ compensation claims.

He has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Georgia since 2007 by the American Trial Lawyers’ Association and recognized by Lawdragon as one of...

Ken has practiced bankruptcy law for over 22 years in Georgia. Ken is married with 2 children who attend Mill Creek High School. Ken is the President of the Mill Creek Band Booster Club and past president of the Mill Creek Athletic Association.

My firm is a modern law practice built to take on large corporations and insurance companies who refuse to acknowledge their wrongful acts. I began my career defending those companies with the aspiration of learning how they defended serious personal injuries so I could one day start my own practice to oppose them. All too often I witnessed corporations and insurance companies fight in cases where they were squarely in the wrong. My desire to obtain justice for the injured led me to establish my own law practice. I now dedicate 100% of my practice to representing people hurt by...

As a partner in one of the largest law firms in North Georgia, Rustin defended insurance companies and large businesses before co-founding Smith Hulsey. He has handled cases in both federal and state courts, appearing in U.S. District Courts and counties throughout Georgia. He has argued before the Supreme Court of Georgia, and litigated appeals in the Georgia Court of Appeals and U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit. Rustin graduate magna cum laude from the University of Georgia before attending Emory University School of Law, where he was selected for the Dean’s List, received the Dean’s Award, and was recommended...

John E. Morrison, Jr. was born and raised in Marietta, Georgia. He graduated Georgia State University in 2003 with magna cum laude honors. He obtained his law degree with Honors in Litigation from Georgia State University. Upon graduation, Mr. Morrison practiced liability and workers’ compensation law for one of the largest claimant law firms in East Georgia. He has never worked for an insurance company or a defense law firm, and he never will. He enjoys helping injured parties receive the benefits to which they are entitled. Mr. Morrison is fluent in Spanish and...

Attorney Chris York is committed to helping clients navigate a complicated legal system. As an experienced attorney, he is always focused on helping clients obtain outcomes that are justified. He focuses on giving them the peace of mind they deserve. At our law firm in Duluth, GA, we genuinely care about every client we work with. His personal interests include running, watching tennis matches, and being a dedicated father to three teenagers, a boy and two girls.

Arthur began his legal career at the Office of the Public Defender for the Augusta Judicial Circuit. During his time as an APD, Arthur represented hundreds of criminal defendants and tried both misdemeanor and felony cases to jury verdict. After leaving the Office of the Public Defender, Arthur entered private practice and turned his attention to representing the interests of injured workers across the state of Georgia.

Arthur graduated from Augusta State University, after which he went to work in Alaska as a commercial fisherman. Arthur believes that his experience in Alaska was invaluable, not only because it taught him the...

Rick J. DeMedeiros is the sole member of his own firm in Conyers, Georgia. Serving clients throughout the Atlanta metropolitan area, he exclusively focuses his practice on the representation of people who have been injured in workplace accidents or as a result of the negligence of others. Before starting his firm, Mr. DeMedeiros was associated with two law firms that represented employers and insurance companies in workers' compensation matters, and he draws from his rich background in that field to each client's advantage. He has handled workers' compensation cases involving work-related deaths and catastrophic injuries, including severe spinal cord damage,...

Attorney L. Blade Thompson is the founder of BLADE INJURY LAW located in Atlanta, GA. He has built his law firm with a concentration in personal injury litigation and specializes in traumatic brain injury (TBI). Blade is a passionate and persistent courtroom advocate for his clients and personally invests not only in them, but their outcomes.

Blade is a proud Georgia Bulldog with an undergraduate from the University of Georgia and law degree from Mercer Law. Upon graduation, Blade passed the Georgia, Florida and Alabama bar exams within his first year.

Areas of Practice

Car Accident
Trucking Accident
Motorcycle Accident
Traumatic Brain Injury
Wrongful Death
Nursing...

Sean Goldstein dedicates his law practice at Goldstein Law Group to protecting the rights of the accused in the criminal justice system and to helping the injured try to make their lives whole again after unfortunate negligence. In his personal injury practice, Sean understands the devastating effects that a car accident, slip and fall or other premises liability injury, and a defective product injury can have on a plaintiff and his family. After a neck, back, shoulder, head, or other injury, it's possible that an injured person might never be the same again. Sean dedicates his time...

Shireen Hormozdi began her career in Atlanta as an attorney with a national consumer law firm. During her first year in practice, she tried a case in federal court before Hon. Beverly B. Martin in the Northern District of Georgia and successfully appealed a case before the Georgia Court of Appeals. She left the firm for a federal judicial clerkship with the Hon. E. Clayton Scofield, III in the Northern District of Georgia.

After she completed her clerkship, Ms. Hormozdi worked for a large law firm in Florida, defending Fortune 500 companies against personal injury, products liability and premise liability cases....

Following law school, I worked as a superior court judicial law clerk for the Coweta Judicial Circuit. I thereafter worked for several years for a leading Georgia workers' compensation insurance defense firm representing employers and insurers throughout the state. Today, I represent injured workers seeking Georgia workers' compensation benefits and settlements.