Mike Hostetter has defended serious personal injury actions for nearly thirty years. His practice focuses on three primary areas – transportation litigation, product liability, and behavioral health care. Mike leads the Nall & Miller’s Transportation & Trucking practice group, representing large and small trucking companies and trucking insurers throughout the Southeast. He is also part of the team that serves as National Product Counsel for the world’s largest home appliance manufacturer, defending product liability claims involving personal injury and property damage nationally and in Canada. Mike serves as lead counsel for twelve behavioral health care facilities in Georgia defending malpractice cases and providing legal services to support a wide variety of their health care law needs.
Mike has been lead trial counsel in over forty jury trials in Georgia, California, and Illinois. He has argued before the Georgia Court of Appeals and Georgia Supreme Court, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh and Eleventh Circuits. Mike prides himself on using innovative approaches in the courtroom as well as creative solutions for case resolution.
Mike grew up on Long Island and attended and graduated from the Stony Brook School in Stony Brook, New York. During his junior year, he lived with his family in India attending the Kodaikanal School in Tamil Nadu. He attended the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio where he was a member of the wrestling team and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. In 1984, Mike headed south to attend law school at Emory University and has lived here ever since. He graduated in 1987 joining Nall & Miller and has been with the firm for nearly thirty years.
Education
- Emory University School of Law, 1987
- The College of Wooster, 1984
- B.A., Political Science,
- Minor, English Literature
Bar Admissions
- State Bar of Georgia
- Georgia Court of Appeals
- Supreme Court of Georgia
- State Bar of Tennessee
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Personal/Civil Memberships
- Defense Research Institute
- Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel
- Georgia Academy of Hospital Attorneys
- Georgia Defense Lawyers Association
- Georgia Motor Trucking Association
- Georgia Society for Healthcare Risk Management
- Lawyers Club of Atlanta
- Transportation Lawyers Association
- Trucking Industry Defense Association
- Professional Liability Defense Federation
Industries
- + Products Liability
- + Healthcare Law
- + Transportation Law
- + Constitutional Law
- + Professional Liability
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- + Business Law
- + Premises Liability
- + Insurance Coverage
- + Family Law