Gary C. Johnson

Gary C. Johnson has been representing plaintiffs in personal injury cases for over forty years.

In 1993 he founded Gary C. Johnson, P.S.C. which currently has fourteen attorneys based at four Kentucky offices in Pikeville, Lexington, Louisville, and Hazard. The firm’s Lexington injury lawyers also provide services in other Kentucky, Georgia, South Carolina, Indiana, and West Virginia locations.

Gary and his firm are listed in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers and he has been named a Kentucky Super Lawyer every year since its inception.

In 2008, the Kentucky Justice Association awarded Gary the Peter Perlman Outstanding Trial Lawyer of the Year Award 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 tried cases before juries in Kentucky, Georgia, and West Virginia.

Gary has obtained numerous multimillion-dollar jury verdicts and settlements for injured clients over his long and distinguished career, including the largest personal injury jury verdict of any lawyer in the state of Kentucky.

He has an online book Winning the Unwinnable Case: Key Techniques for Every Trial, published by Trial Guides, as well as contributed his years of research on trial strategies to Reptile: The 2009 Manual of the Plaintiff’s Revolution, considered to be “the book” for the modern approach to jury persuasion.

Gary devotes most of his time to the day-to-day practice of law. His firm’s practice consists primarily of representing plaintiffs injured by vehicular negligence, product liability, and medical malpractice. Over the years Gary has given freely of his time to help with the education and mentoring of other trial lawyers. He has presented seminars throughout the United States on trial strategy.

Finally, Gary continues to educate the public with his media broadcasts, including his podcast Simply the Law of Life, a forum to encourage daily happiness and quality of life.