Personal injury lawyers serving Marietta

This is the home office, and for most of what we handle it is also the courthouse. Marietta is the county seat of Cobb, which means a case against a Cobb resident is filed here — and unusually, it means the two courts a personal injury case can go to are a short walk apart rather than in different towns. Superior Court sits on Haynes Street; State Court sits on East Park Square.

The distinction matters more than most people are told. Georgia's State Courts hear civil actions without regard to the amount in controversy, so a serious injury case can be filed in either court, and the choice is a real one rather than a formality. Only 72 of Georgia's 159 counties have a State Court at all. Cobb not only has one, its State Court bench is reported at twelve judges — larger than Fulton's ten, in a county with roughly forty percent fewer people. For a plaintiff's firm that is a genuinely useful piece of local knowledge, and it is one of the reasons this practice is sited where it is.

The other thing that shapes a Marietta caseload is the interstate geometry immediately north of the Square. I-75 serves the city from exits 261, 263, 265 and 267, and the I-575 wye split — where traffic bound for Cherokee County peels off — is exit 268, inside Cobb. Two interstate streams merging and diverging within a few miles of downtown produces a particular kind of collision, and it produces it in the county where we file.