Goldstein Hayes, LLC d/b/a Goldstein Hayes Trial Lawyers
Jonathan P. Hayes is a nationally recognized catastrophic injury and wrongful death trial lawyer and a Founding and Managing Partner of Goldstein Hayes Trial Lawyers, an Atlanta-based boutique trial law firm representing clients throughout Georgia and, in select cases, nationwide. His practice is concentrated on commercial trucking and transportation litigation, tractor-trailer collisions, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, product liability, drowning incidents, and other complex negligence litigation.
Jonathan has helped secure more than $400 million in commercial motor vehicle recoveries, including a $150 million trucking wrongful death verdict —one of the largest trucking verdicts in Georgia history. Goldstein Hayes Trial Lawyers has obtained verdicts and settlements approaching $1 billion for individuals and families in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. Jonathan's litigation includes claims against commercial motor carriers, corporations, manufacturers, healthcare providers, and insurers involving complex liability, corporate negligence, defective products, permanent injuries, and fatalities.
Known for his meticulous preparation and trial-first philosophy, Jonathan intentionally limits the number of cases he accepts, allowing him to remain personally involved throughout every stage of litigation. He prepares every case for trial from day one and is regularly entrusted by attorneys and clients with high-exposure litigation involving commercial trucking collisions, traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, product liability, and wrongful death.
Jonathan has been published in and featured by Forbes, USA TODAY, MSN, and Atlanta Magazine, where his work and legal commentary have highlighted commercial trucking litigation, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, trial advocacy, and issues affecting the civil justice system. He regularly collaborates with attorneys throughout Georgia and across the country on complex commercial trucking, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death litigation. Representative Case Results.
A lifelong Atlantan, Jonathan graduated from Woodward Academy before earning his Bachelor of Science from the College of Charleston and his Juris Doctor from Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law. Following law school, he served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Rowland W. Barnes of the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia.
