John Bey
Founder & Owner | Bey & Associates, LLC
John Bey is a personal injury, wrongful death and medical malpractice trial lawyer and founder & owner of Bey & Associates, LLC in Atlanta, Georgia. Admitted in Georgia; J.D., University of Alabama School of Law.
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N. John Bey is the founder and owner of Bey & Associates, a plaintiff firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with additional offices in Georgia, Ohio and Louisiana. He represents people in personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice and defective drug and product cases.
Bey serves as president of the American Association for Justice for 2026-2027, according to AAJ’s leadership roster. His firm describes a selective intake approach and reports a $52 million jury verdict in a negligent security case. He has also served as secretary of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, past president of the Gate City Bar Association and a trustee of the National Civil Justice Institute.
He earned his law degree from the University of Alabama School of Law and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Cincinnati. Bey lectures frequently for AAJ and state trial lawyer groups, and outside the courtroom he coaches a high school mock trial team and youth soccer and supports scholarships through legal and community organizations.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- J.D., University of Alabama School of Law
- B.A., University of Cincinnati
- Admitted to practice in Georgia state courts
- Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College (Alumnus)
Practice Areas
- American Association for Justice (President, 2026-2027)
- Georgia Trial Lawyers Association (Secretary)
- Gate City Bar Association (Past President)
- Gate City Bar Foundation (Executive Committee)
- Southern Trial Lawyers Association (Executive Board)
- State Bar of Georgia (Board of Governors)
- National Civil Justice Institute (Trustee)
- Georgia Civil Justice PAC (Board Member)
- American Bar Association
- National Bar Association
- American Bar Foundation (Fellow)
- Lawyers Club of Atlanta
- Lawdragon 100 Managing Partners You Need to Know (2025)
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers (2022-present)
- Super Lawyers (2015-present)
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 (2014-present)
- Georgia’s Best Lawyers (2021-present)
- Linda Bates Parker Award, University of Cincinnati (2022)
- AAJ Minority Caucus Lifetime Achievement Award (2018)
- AAJ Distinguished Service Award (2017-2018)
- AAJ Leadership Award (2016)
- Top 20 Jury Verdicts in the United States, Premises Liability/Negligent Security (2019)
- $52 Million Verdict: Jury verdict in a negligent security case, as reported on his firm bio.
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