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Gary Martin Hays is an award winning and longstanding personal Injury Lawyer in the Atlanta Market and Georgia. He is also a consumer safety advocate, child safety expert and 13 time best-selling author.

Early life
Gary's father was a Methodist minister for over 50 years. He grew up in small towns in South Alabama. He had an older brother who passed away from cancer. He also has a younger brother and a younger sister. It was a military lifestyle; constantly moving every two or three years, but that made for a very close family.

Career
He attended Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, graduating in 1986 with a B.A. in Political Science, and a minor in African-American and African Studies. He then attended the Walter F. George School of Law of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Because of his outstanding academic achievements, he was selected as a member of the Mercer Law Review. While at Mercer, Mr. Hays was elected Vice-President of the Student Bar Association. He was also the recipient of the Class of 1977 Scholarship Award. He is licensed to practice in all of the State and Superior Courts of Georgia, the Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of Georgia. He is also licensed in Federal Court before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. He is a Champion Member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers’ Association. He is also a Champion Member of the Civil Justice PAC.

Gary Martin Hays’ legal accomplishments include being a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a society limited to those attorneys who have received a settlement or verdict of at least $2 million dollars. He has been recognized in Atlanta Magazine as one of Georgia’s top workers’ compensation lawyers as voted on by other lawyers in Georgia. Gary frequently lectures to other attorneys regarding personal injury and workers’ compensation claims. He has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Georgia since 2007 by the American Trial Lawyers’ Association and recognized by Lawdragon as one of the leading Plaintiffs’ Lawyers in America. He has also been recognized by the Georgia Trial Lawyers’ Association for his community service efforts. His firm specializes in cases involving personal injury, wrongful death, workers’ compensation, inadequate security, and social security disability claims. His videos on certain areas of Georgia Law have been watched over 3 Million times, making him the most viewed attorney in Georgia on Facebook and YouTube. Since 1993, his firm has helped over 37,000 injured victims and their families.

He currently hosts the “Georgia Legal News Update” for the CW Network, as well as “The Intersection: Where Country and Faith Come Together” on 94.9 THE BULL and other iHeart stations across the southeast. He has been quoted in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and appeared on multiple television shows, including FOX & FRIENDS and CNN Headline News. He also is the host of “The Wise Counsel Project” as was featured on WFSH (FISH 104.7). Gary interviews men and women of faith, and asks them to share their “wise counsel” on how we can make better decisions in our daily lives. He has interviewed Bret Baier (Host of Special Report on Fox News), Comedian Jeff Foxworthy, Coach Tony Dungy, Larry King, Actor Kirk Cameron, Governor Nathan Deal, and Dr. Alveda King.

He has been quoted in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and featured on over 250 online sites including Morningstar.com, CBS News’s MoneyWatch.com, The Boston Globe, The New York Daily News, and The Miami Herald. Gary is also a 13 time best-selling author/co-author, including the #1 best-selling legal books, The Authority On Personal Injury Claims in Georgia and The Authority On Workers’ Compensation Claims in Georgia.

Gary has been seen on multiple television stations and shows, including Fox & Friends, CNN Headline News, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox affiliates and has appeared on over 110 radio stations. He also served as an executive producer of a documentary entitled “Mi Casa Hogar” in 2013, which highlighted the work done by this orphanage in Acapulco, Mexico. This project earned him his second Silver Telly Award, as his first was as an executive producer for “All Are Our Heroes” in 2010, a documentary regarding cancer survivors. A documentary about Gary and his law firm, “Stand & Serve”, was featured on the Biography Channel in 2014, and this project also won a Silver Telly Award.

He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.), an organization that works to end human sex trafficking around the world. Over the last 10 years, Gary has pedaled an adult sized big wheel over 500 miles to raise money and awareness for various charities.

Garry founded Keep Georgia Safe in 2008, a non-profit whose mission is to provide safety education and crime prevention training in Georgia. This organization has trained over 80 state and local law enforcement officers on how to respond in the event a child is abducted. Gary is certified in Child Abduction Response techniques by Fox Valley Technical College and the FBI. His firm has given away over 1000 bicycle helmets to promote safety. He has awarded 14 college scholarships to deserving students.

Gary has been a guest announcer on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” He has appeared in Nickelodeon’s “See Dad Run” with Scott Baio, as well as in “Drop Dead Diva” on the A&E Network. He has performed on Broadway in “The Lion King”, “Rock of Ages,” and “Motown: The Musical.” In 2013, Gary and two of his daughters, Ashleigh and Ava, performed with the rock group “Chicago” at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre. Gary was featured in ex-CIA Operative Valerie Plame Wilson’s novel “Burned” as a CIA weapons expert from Alabama. Bill Engvall played the White House Chief of Staff in “Sharknado 3” using his full name “Gary Martin Hays.”

Books

 * "Trend Setters"
 * "Think & Grow Rich Today"
 * "Sold"
 * "Consumer's Advocate"
 * "Protect & Defend"
 * "The Success Secret"
 * "Champions"
 * "The Authority on Child Safety"
 * "The Authority on Tout"
 * "The Authority on Personal Injury Claims in Georgia"
 * "The Authority on Workers' Compensation Claims in Georgia"
 * "I Will Make a Difference"
 * "If I Were in Charge"