Family Law

• Divorce

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
• DUI/DWI
  Joseph R. Neal, Jr. is a wrongful death lawyer in Atlanta, GA with over two decades of experience concentrating in the trial and litigation of tragic and often complex cases involving wrongful death to children and adults, seeking maximum compensation for the surviving family members or spouses of the innocent victim. Wrongful death cases the Neal Law firm has successfully prosecuted in Georgia involve a wide variety of situations, including car wrecks, medical malpractice, trucking accidents, motorcycle crashes, burn injury as result of hazards relating to fire, electricity, and gas, shootings, adverse drug reactions, dangerous products, road defects, and drunk driving wrecks.
• Wrongful Death
  The Wrongful Death statutes in Georgia allow the families and spouses of those wrongfully killed to be compensated for both economic and non-economic damages, including lost future earning capacity, medical bills, funeral bills, and the full value of a person’s life (from the decedent’s perspective in Georgia).
• Traffic Violations
  The Neal Law Office knows how to handle dangerous tractor-trailer accident cases and the trucking companies and drivers that cause them. In 2006, the Neal Law Office was hired by an innocent bicyclist who was violently struck by an 80,000 pound tractor-trailer driving 60 mph in Edgefield County, South Carolina. Mr. Neal immediately filed suit in response to the tractor-trailer company’s efforts to tamper with evidence at the scene of the tractor-trailer wreck. Eleven months later, Mr. Neal successfully tried this trucking accident case before a Federal Court Jury in Anderson, South Carolina and obtained a three million dollar ($3,000,000) verdict against the tractor-trailer company, including $2,000,000 in compensatory damages for the injured bicyclist, and $1,000,000 in punitive damages against the tractor-trailer company for reckless driving and tampering with evidence and witnesses in the aftermath of the truck accident.

Property Law

• Premises Liability

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Joe Neal, Jr., an Atlanta, Georgia personal injury lawyer, recently represented an illiterate, mildly-retarded, brain injury victim, and helped him every step of the way. Not only did Mr. Neal help him through the legal case to recover money for his permanent injuries, he also coordinated doctor visits and showed up at the hospital in person to make sure the doctors took care to treat and diagnose his client, who was unable to handle these matters himself. Mr. Neal developed personal relationships with his client’s doctors, and was essential to getting his brain injured client into Walton Rehabilitation Hospital, a respected and accredited rehabilitation facility in Augusta, Georgia that treats traumatic brain injury patients.
• Medical Malpractice
  Medical malpractice in Georgia can be claimed when death or injury to a patient is reported as a result of a breach of the standard of care before, during and medical after care has been administered by anyone in the healthcare community (including, but not limited to, doctors, nurses, dentists and institutions.) Medical malpractice can also be claimed in Georgia if a healthcare professional has violated ethical cannons or state or federal laws that cause a patient to be injured or killed.
• Auto Accidents
• Social Security Disability
  Mr. Neal was there every step of the way to helping his brain injured client get approved for social security disability and medicare for his future medical care. Mr. Neal was there, in person, at his client’s house and in his community, dozens of times over the course of one year to build relationships with his client’s family, friends, neighbors, and former employer to build a network of social support for his brain injured client.