Phillip Hairston

If you want to know how the insurance company’s lawyers will attack your claim, hire someone who used to write that playbook. Phillip Hairston of Thompson Law Injury Lawyers spent five years at a prominent defense firm representing major corporations and general contractors in complex litigation before switching sides to fight for injury victims. That defense-side vantage point is his edge: he anticipates the arguments coming at his clients because he once made them himself.

Hairston’s defense-firm years produced real wins, including a reversal before the Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia and multiple favorable trial verdicts. Since pivoting to plaintiff’s work, he has taken on claims arising from car wrecks, commercial trucking collisions, motorcycle crashes, pedestrian accidents, wrongful deaths, and negligent security. He is pragmatic about strategy — willing to press a case to trial, but equally ready to use mediation or pre-suit negotiation when that gets his client a strong result faster. The firm behind him has muscle too: Thompson Law has put more than $2.1 billion in settlements into clients’ pockets and charges no fee unless it recovers for you.

His background is more technical than most injury lawyers’. Raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia, Hairston earned a chemistry degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology before attending Washington University School of Law, where he interned for the Honorable Barry Schermer of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and worked on intellectual property matters for a Fortune 500 biotechnology company. He is a member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. Away from the office he lifts weights, runs obstacle course races around the country, dives as a PADI-certified scuba diver, and pulls for the Atlanta Hawks and Georgia Tech basketball.

Hairston is a smart choice if an insurer is stonewalling or lowballing you after a serious crash and you want a lawyer who knows exactly how the defense builds its case. Thompson Law offers free, no-obligation consultations, signs up clients remotely in minutes, and collects nothing unless your claim succeeds — but Texas deadlines for filing are strict, so it pays to call early.