Glenn E. Kushel

In 2005, Glenn was elected President of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. During his term, he and other Executive Committee members worked to restructure the Association to place a greater emphasis on legislative efforts and outreach and undertook efforts to preserve and protect the civil justice system and citizens' access to the courts. He previously was the legislative chair for the organization and chaired the Professional Negligence Section of GTLA. He recently was awarded the President’s Award for recent legislative efforts to fight tort reform at the legislature. Glenn is a native Floridian and grew up in the St. Petersburg/Clearwater area Glenn attended the University of Florida for undergraduate and law school. He was on the Honor Court while in law school and was an active member of the Moot Court Team. He graduated from law school with honors. Glenn began practicing law in 1988 as a defense lawyer with the litigation and trial law firm of Long, Weinberg, Ansley & Wheeler. He primarily represented physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers in medical malpractice actions, but also handled a variety of other types of cases including insurance disputes, product liability, automobile, and trucking cases. He participated in numerous trials at the firm. In 1993, Glenn began a plaintiff's practice with the firm of Mills & Moraitakis. In 1995, he was named a partner and the firm eventually became Moraitakis & Kushel, LLP. Glenn and his partner Nick Moraitakis had a successful long-term partnership. Throughout his career, Glenn has successfully tried and resolved many medical malpractice and other injury cases. He has resolved cases for both 7 figures and 8 figures in many different types of malpractice cases. He and his then partner Nick Moraitakis argued the case of Keenan v. Plouffe to the Georgia Supreme Court, a case that involved a young woman who was severely brain damaged during a surgery at the Medical College of Georgia. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court held that the defendant physician, a faculty member at the Medical College, was not immune from suit under the Georgia Tort Claims Act. Instead, he could be held liable individually. The case settled for a significant amount of money.