Attorney Profiles

Gary C. Johnson has been representing Plaintiffs in personal injury cases for over 30 years. He is the founder of Gary C. Johnson, P.S.C. which currently has 7 attorneys in three offices located in Pikeville, Lexington and Hazard, Kentucky.

Gary C. Johnson and his firm are listed in the Martindale Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers and he has been named a Kentucky Super Lawyer for the last two years. In 2008, Gary C. Johnson was awarded the Peter Perlman Outstanding Trial Lawyer of the Year Award by the Kentucky Justice Association for his work as an advocate for the rights of the people and his service as a mentor to young lawyers in the state.

He has received several multi-million dollar jury verdicts and settlements over his long and distinguished career. He has the largest personal injury jury verdict of any lawyer in the state of Kentucky. He has tried cases in Kentucky, Georgia and West Virginia. He has also handled cases in several other states.

Gary C. Johnson continues to devote the majority of his time to the day-to-day practice of law. His firm's practice consists entirely of Plaintiff personal injury cases in the fields of vehicular negligence, products liability, and medical malpractice. In the last few years, however, Gary has diverted some of his time to the education of other trial lawyers. He has presented seminars for the Kentucky Bar Association, Kentucky Justice Association and the American Association of Justice on trial strategy and how to maximize damages in your case.

For the past four years Gary has been involved in national research of juror attitudes. Gary C. Johnson, David Ball, Don Keenan, and Jim Fitzgerald set out to determine if there was a way to counter the insurance companies' propaganda which had literally poisoned the modern jurors against injured victims. After four years of focus groups across the country the group concluded that there was an answer. A decision was made to share the research with other plaintiff lawyers and this led to the publication of the book, "Reptile - The 2009 Manual of the Plaintiff's Revolution". David Ball and Don Keenan, two members of the research group are the authors of this book. This research "wrote the book" for the modern approach to jury persuasion.

Rick Freidman, Don Keenan, Jim Fitzgerald, Artemis Malekpour and Gary C. Johnson formed a company in 2009 called the Research Exchange Partners, LLC. The sole purpose of this company is to continue the research into the reptile method that was discovered by the original group.

Gary C. Johnson has over the years helped new lawyers on an individual basis represent injured people. He is pleased that many of his proven methods have been published. He is sharing with the Plaintiff's Bar the secrets of his success as a preeminent trial lawyer.