Beightol, Kristen L.

Lawyer Overview

Kristen L. Beightol has focused her career in the areas of medical malpractice and trucking law. While Ms. Beightol has had experience with a vast array of medical malpractice cases, Ms. Beightol has handled multiple birth injury, anesthesia, orthopedic, pediatric an eye cases. Though she has spent the majority of her career representing patients injured by medical malpractice and individuals catastrophically injured by tragic trucking accidents, she worked at one of Atlanta's premier trucking defense firms to gain the defense perspective when she moved to Atlanta from Raleigh, North Carolina in 2008. At Bird Law Group, Ms. Beightol has returned to her true love of representing people who have been injured by medical malpractice or serious trucking accidents.

Listings in Top Verdicts and Settlements Reported in North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

• #18 in North Carolina Lawyers Weekly's "Large Verdicts and Settlements for 2007"
• #4 in North Carolina Lawyers Weekly's "Top Verdicts and Settlements in 2004 for North Carolina"
• #9 in North Carolina Lawyers Weekly's "Top Verdicts and Settlements in 2003 for North Carolina"
• #30 in North Carolina Lawyers Weekly's "Top Verdicts and Settlements in 2002 for North Carolina"

Listings in North Carolina's Lawyers Weekly for Miscellaneous Settlements (not a complete listing of case settlements)

• "Sub Shocked Working On Substation - Functional Paraplegia - Sued Owner That Connected Jumpers - Worker's Employer Not Informed - $5.5 Million Settlement" "Shoulder Dystocia Allegedly Mishandled - Broken Neck, Brain Damage - Cerebral Palsy - $13.5 Million Settlement"
• "Workplace Tort - Employee Of Independent Contractor - Rescuer Injured - Alleged Failure To Warn Substation Energized - $500,000 Settlement"
• "Medical Malpractice - Nerve Damage, Foot Problems After Dye Injection - MRI Showed Spinal Cord Lower Than Normal - $1.61 Million Settlement" "Admiralty/Personal Injury - Wrongful Death Of Two Boys - NIEED - Sailboat Mast Hit Power Lines - Hazard To Navigation Alleged - Permit Issue - $2.2 Million Settlement"
• "Medmal Settlement Of $2.075 Million Reached In Death Of Mother, Fetus Medical Malpractice - Wrongful Death Of Mother, Fetus - HELLP Syndrome - TTP - Didn't Transfer To Tertiary Care Center - $2.075 Million Settlement"

Areas of Practice

• Medical Malpractice
• Trucking Law

Representative Clients

• Plaintiffs (Patients) only Medical Malpractice

Representative Cases

• Estate of Janice Spell v. Firas Ghanem, et al, NO. COA05-353 (2005)
• Cullen v. Valley Forge Life Ins. Co., et al., 161 N.C. App. 570, 589 S.E.2d 423 (2003)

West Practice Categories

Medical Malpractice

Bar Admissions

• Georgia
• North Carolina, 2001
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of North Carolina
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Georgia
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Georgia
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court Southern District of Georgia
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court Northern District of Georgia
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court Middle District of Georgia

Professional Associations and Memberships

• The North Carolina Bar Association
• The American Association for Justice
• American Bar Association, Litigation Section and Young Lawyer's Division
• North Carolina Bar Association, Litigation Section
• North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers
• The Junior League of Raleigh

Honors and Awards

• Journalism Honors Program
• Highest Honors for Sports Marketing Honors Thesis
• Bob Quincy Academic Scholarship
• World of Poetry Award
• Amy Charles Writing Award
• Raleigh Debutante and Alpha Delta Pi Sorority Member and Social Chair

Classes and Seminars

• Presenter, "The Nuts and Bolts of Medical Malpractice Cases for Paralegals.", IPE Seminars, February 24, 2011
• Presenter, "Closing out the Case.", Georgia Trial Lawyers Association Paralegal and Legal Assistant Workshop, June 16, 2010
• Presenter, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association to John Marshall Law School, April 2, 2010
• Presenter, "Res Ipsa Loquitur in Med Mal Cases", North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, June 14, 2008
• Presenter, "Case Preparation - Getting in Sync with Your Attorney", NBI, Inc., January 25, 2008
• Presenter, "Medical Malpractice", Wake Early College High School, BioMedical Technology Class, November 29, 2007
• Presenter, "Motions in Limine: Curb the Worst of the Defense Tactics" and "Anticipate the Defense Motions in Limine and Brief the Issues: A Quiz File for Lawyers", North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, February 25, 2005

Past Employment Positions

• Faison & Gillespie, 2001 - 2006

Education

• Campbell University School of Law, Raleigh, North Carolina, May, 2001
  J.D
  Honors: 2001 I.R. Williams Academic Scholarship
  Honors: 1998-2001 Campbell Academic Scholarship Recipient
  Honors: 2000 Moot Court Board Co-President
  Honors: 1999 Moot Court Quarter Finalist and Observer Staff Writer
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May, 1997
  B.A
  Honors: summa cum laude
  Honors: High Honors
  Minor: Journalism and Mass Communications, Advertising Sequence
  Major: History Concentration and Honors Thesis

Offers Free Initial Consultation

Published Works

• "Settling with the Third-Party Tortfeasor: Taking on the Employer's Lien", (Mark McGrath), North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, 2004
• Chapter 12: The Law of Expert Witnesses, (Bill Faison), Wake Forest University School of Law Damages CLE, 2002
• Representing the Anesthetized Patient, (Mark McGrath), North Carolina Lawyer's Weekly, 2002

Address

2170 Defoor Hills Road NW
Atlanta, GA 30318

Phones

404-873-4696
888-392-4312

Faxes

404-872-3745

Emails

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Websites

http://www.birdmabrey.com