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Darren W. Penn 
Atlanta, Georgia
phone (404) 961-7650
fax (912) 651-1276
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Darren Penn handles a wide variety of tort and business litigation in state and federal courts across the United States.  His practice ranges from extensive products liability, trucking and auto wreck, construction, wrongful death, medical malpractice and aviation trials to business tort, entertainment and intellectual property cases.
 
Darren began his career in 1994 as a trial lawyer for State Farm Insurance Company, the largest auto, property and casualty insurer in the world.  He handled cases involving automobile accidents, premises liability, intentional torts, fire claims, theft claims, homeowner's claims, insurance bad faith, and coverage disputes.  While at State Farm, he handled well over a hundred trials as lead counsel.


After leaving State Farm in 1997, Darren was a founding member of Penn & Pate LLP where he built a successful trial practice exclusively representing plaintiffs in a wide variety of personal injury and business tort trials.  His extensive experience with the insurance industry was pivotal in the development of a highly successful practice, and, in 2000, Darren merged his practice into Scherffius, Ballard Still & Ayres LLP.  After five great years with that firm, Darren and partners Jeff Harris and Steve Lowry formed Harris Penn & Lowry, LLP to continue their focus on high end products liability, aviation, catastrophic injury, and business tort trials.

Darren is involved in numerous products liability cases including automotive products liability claims arising from seatback failures, defective seat belts, defective door and seat latches, vehicle fires, vehicle rollovers, and other defects.  He is a member of organizations that focus exclusively on handling products liability litigation.  In addition to products liability, Darren has continued to handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases involving other defective products, construction incidents, automobile and truck wrecks, medical malpractice, and plane crashes as well as a few select cases involving business torts, sports and entertainment disputes and copyright and patent infringement.

Darren received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Georgia.  He served as Executive Articles Editor of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law and participated in the Moot Court.  He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Atlanta Bar Association, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Lawyers Club of Atlanta, American Association for Justice, American Bar Association, Southern Trial Lawyers Association, AIEG, and Gridiron.  He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is a frequent speaker at CLE seminars on topics related to trial tactics, products liability, insurance, subrogation and liens.  In 2008, he was the Chair of the Civil Justice PAC of Georgia and remains on the Board.  He is a member of the board of the General Practice and Trial Section of the Georgia Bar, Chair of the GTLA Legislative Committee and a member of the GTLA Executive Committee.

Areas of Practice:
Product Liability
Trucking and Auto Wrecks
Catastrophic Injury
Wrongful Death
Serious Personal Injury
Medical Malpractice
Aviation
Insurance Disputes
Toxic Torts
Pharmaceutical Products
Bar Admissions:
Georgia, 1994
U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, 1994
U.S. District Court Middle District of Georgia, 1997
U.S. District Court Southern District of Georgia, 2003
U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 1994
Education:
University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia, 1994
J.D.
Law Journal: Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Executive Articles Editor, 1993 - 1994
Law Journal: Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Editorial Board, 1992 - 1993


University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA, 1990
B.S.
Honors: Dean's List
Major:  Political Science


Published Works:
Insurer's Alternatives to Declaratory Judgment Actions: Interpretation, Interpleading and Defense and Indemnity Agreements, 24 The Brief 22 (ABA), 1995


Articles on the subjects of workers' compensation and other liens, insurance coverage litigation, and automotive litigation issues, The Defense Brief - published by State Farm, 1994-1997


Classes/Seminars Taught:
Automotive Torts Seminar, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, 2005 - 2009


Brake-Shift Interlock Defects, AIEG, 2005


Rear Seat Back Latches, AIEG, 2004


Tricks of the Trade: Common "Tricks" of Insurers and Medical Providers, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, 2004


Uninsured Motorist Law: Service of Process and the Statute of Limitations, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, 2002


Uninsured Motorist Law: Issues Relating to Available Policy Limits, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, 2002


Classes and seminars on the subjects of worker's compensation and other liens, insurance coverage litigation, slip and fall litigation, and automobile litigation, State Farm, 1994 - 1997


Holiday Seminar, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, December 12, 2008


Using Technology in the Courtroom, Trial Practice ICLE, November 7, 2008


Evidence Seminar, 2008


Holiday Seminar - Brake-shift Interlock, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, 2007


Honors and Awards:
AV rated, Martindale-Hubbell


2005 Super Lawyers, Rising Stars


Professional Associations and Memberships:
State Bar of Georgia


Atlanta Bar Association


Lawyers Club of Atlanta


Georgia Trial Lawyers Association


American Bar Association


Association of Trial Lawyers of America


Southern Trial Lawyers Association


Attorney Information Exchange Group


GTLA Amicus Committee and Communications Committee
Member


GTLA Legislative Committee
Co-Chair


Civil Justice PAC
Chairman of the Board


Gridiron


Past Employment Positions:
Scherffius, Ballard, Still & Ayres, LLP, Member, 2000 - 2005


Penn, Pate & Regas, Partner, 2000


Penn & Pate, LLP, Partner, 1997 - 2000


State Farm Insurance Companies, Claims Litigation Counsel, 1994 - 1997


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