With five decades of experience, Bob Killian focuses his practice on matters of civil litigation, primarily personal injury and wrongful death. He has been legal counsel in cases in which over $160 million have been recovered for his clients. He handles cases primarily in Glynn, Camden, Liberty, Brantley, McIntosh, Chatham, Ware, and Wayne counties. In addition to his principal area of personal injury and wrongful death, he has successfully represented clients in business litigation cases, condemnation cases, civil rights cases and estate disputes. He has tried well over 300 civil cases to verdict and has handled over fifty appeals to the Georgia Court of Appeals, Supreme Court of Georgia, and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Mr. Killian obtained his Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law, and he was admitted to the Georgia State Bar in 1976. He served many years as a Vice President of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association of which he is member. He is also a member of the Glynn County Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the American Bar Association, National Association of Distinguished Counsel-The Nation’s Top One Percent, the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Civil Plaintiff and National Trial Lawyers Top 25 Motor Vehicles. He has been selected to Super Lawyers each year beginning in 2008. He has also been recognized for Lifetime Achievement Membership by America’s Top 100 Attorneys and is a Lifetime Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Dedicated to putting his extensive trial experience to work for his clients, Mr. Killian has garnered recognition among his peers. For over three decades, he has had the AV Preeminent® which is the highest level of Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™,* and he is a with a Kiss and Make-up Letter,” appears in the 1990 winter issue of Verdict, the quarterly journal of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. He also wrote “Use of Experts to Show How Darkness Affects Driver Vision in Tractor Trailer Wrecks” for the journal’s 1997 winter issue, and he co-authored “Examination of the Police Officer in an Automobile Collision Case” published in Calendar Call, a publication of the trial section of the State Bar of Georgia. In addition to writing, he has been a speaker at Georgia Trial Lawyer seminars.
From his office in Brunswick, Georgia, Mr. Killian represents clients in the communities of St. Simons Island, Kingsland, Woodbine, St Marys, Jesup, Nahunta, Darien, Baxley, Waycross, Folkston and many others in Southeast GA.
When he’s not in the office, Mr. Killian can often be found watching a game, spending time with loved ones, or playing with his four grandchildren. True to his family-first nature, one of his proudest joys is practicing law alongside his daughter, Bonnie.
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Professional Associations & Memberships:
- National Association of Distinguished Counsel
- Brunswick-Glynn County Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- State Bar of Georgia
- The Association of Trial Lawyers of America
- Vice President, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, 1987-present
- Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, 1980-present
- National Trial Lawyers Top 100 in Georgia
- Lifetime Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Author:
“Stop Abusive Legislation in Clear Negligence Cases with a Kiss-and-Make-Up Letter,” Verdict, Journal of Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, November / December 1990.
“Use of Experts to Show How Darkness Affects Driver Vision in Tractor-Trailer Wrecks,” Verdict, Journal of Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Winter 1997.
Co-Author:
“Examination of the Police Officer in an Automobile Collision Case,” Calendar Call, Official Publication of the General Practice and Trial Section of the State Bar of Georgia.
Education:
- J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law – Athens, Georgia
- A.B. from the University of Georgia
Bar Admissions:
Georgia, 1976
Litigation Percentage:
98% of practice devoted to litigation
