Cale Howard Conley

Cale's practice focuses primarily on “general” product liability cases. These are cases where a consumer or a user of a product suffers serious injury or death because of defects in a product’s design or because the product failed from some mechanical or manufacturing problem.

Cale Conley and his firm handle product liability cases in many different situations including:

Automotive products liability cases involving seat belt failures, tire tread failures or negligent vehicle repairs by tire or automotive repair shops

Amputations or Lost Limbs

Brain Injuries or Nervous System Damage

Design Defects or Manufacturing Defects

Pulmonary, Cardiac or Other Organ-System Failures

Serious Burns, Serious Head or Eye Injuries

Helmet Defects (Motorcycle and Bicycle Helmets)

Severe Injuries or Deaths Caused by Electrical Currents

Warning Defects / Failure to Warn

Power / Pressure Cooker Explosion Burn Cases

Cale participated in the trial of Rodriguez v. Suzuki, which resulted in a jury verdict of $36.9M. He also worked as lead associate during the six-week trial of Six Flags v. Time Warner in Gwinnett County, Georgia - a case which resulted in a Georgia-record $454M verdict for the Plaintiffs.

Cale has served as lead or co-lead counsel at trial in 8 verdicts exceeding $1 million dollars and 3 verdicts at or above $10 million, including a $24.8 million award in Gaines v. Cumberland County Hospital System and a $10 million verdict in Hernandez v. Hi-Tech Engineering.

Cale has been named a “SuperLawyer” by Atlanta Magazine for 16 consecutive years in the area of automotive products liability and has twice been named to Georgia Trend’s list of the “Legal Elite".

Cale attended the University of Georgia where he graduated summa cum laude with highest honors and then attended the University of Georgia Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude.

University System of Georgia - University of Georgia

J.D. (1995) | Law

1993 - 1995

Cale's law review note, A State Law Theory for Product Liability Claims: A Journey Best Not Taken, was published in the Georgia Law Review; Cale was also a member of Georgia’s National Moot Court Team which finished 2nd in the nation at the National Championship in New York.

Honors: Graduated Magna Cum Laude Member - Order of the Coif, for academic excellence; Order of the Barristers - recognizing excellence in courtroom advocacy

Activities: Member - Georgia Law Review Editorial Board Member - Georgia Moot Court Program

University System of Georgia - University of Georgia

B.A. (1991) | Journalism

1987 - 1991

Honors: Summa Cum Laude with Highest Honors

Founding Partner

Conley Griggs Partin LLP

2001 - Current

Attorney

Butler Wooten & Peak LLP

1997 - 2001

A State Law Theory for Product Liability Claims: A Journey Best Not Taken

Georgia Law Review

Sunshine Hate

Gridiron Publishers

1993

War Between the States

Gridiron Publishers

1992

Super Lawyer

Super Lawyers

2020

Cale has been named 'Super Lawyer' every year from 2005-2020.

AV Preeminent

Martindale-Hubbell

2019

Peer Rated for Highest Level of Professional Excellence

Legal Elite

Georgia Trend

2007

To compile this listing, attorneys submitted nominations. Anyone who is a member of the state bar and lives and practices in Georgia was eligible to vote and to be voted onto this list. Respondents were not allowed to vote for themselves.The ones with the most votes by their peers are selected to the list.Legal Elite are listed in the categories in which fellow attorneys voted them. Ballots were tallied and names verified by the Georgia Trend staff.

Summit Council

Member

Current

University of Georgia Law School

Law School Alumni Council

Current

State Bar of Georgia

Member

Current

AAJ (American Association for Justice)

Current

West Virginia State Bar

Member

2006 - Current

Georgia

State Bar of Georgia

Since 1996

West Virginia

Since 2006

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  We charge on a contingency fee basis, meaning you will not pay us anything up-front. We only get paid if we help you obtain a favorable settlement or a winning verdict at trial. Typically, when we win your case, we take a percentage fee of the total case recovery, in addition to case costs.