John Sherrod

Few lawyers in Douglas County and West Georgia can match John Sherrod’s experience and achievements. He has been representing injured plaintiffs and their families for some 39 years, attaining numerous seven- and eight-figure resolutions on their behalves. A Georgia native who was born and raised in Marietta, John attended the University of Georgia, graduating cum laude in 1984. During his college years, he became friends with future law partner Ken Bernard, and the two students made plans to go into law and perhaps one day create their own law firm. After college, John immediately enrolled in Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law, where he would graduate at the top of his class in 1987. During law school, he clerked for an insurance-defense law firm and then joined that firm as an attorney after receiving his J.D. But after a couple of years, John was having second thoughts about the type of law he was practicing.