Hezekiah Sistrunk Jr., is a National Partner of The Cochran Firm, Chairman of the National Firm's Executive/Management Committee and the Managing Partner of the Firm's Atlanta Office. The Cochran Firm has 28 offices in 17 states. Mr. Sistrunk's practice focuses largely on the litigation of complex disputes involving common law, statutory law, contract law, physician and hospital liability law, product liability law, commercial, corporate and business issues,catastrophic personal injury cases and class action/mass torts/pharmaceutical litigation. Over the course of his career, in fact, Mr. Sistrunk has prosecuted and defended hundreds of litigated matters before state courts, federal courts and administrative agencies and has tried over 100 cases to verdict. Most recently, he was appointed to the Discovery Committee in the DePuy ASR hip implant mass tort MDL. 

Mr.Sistrunk has lectured on medical professional liability issues, complex litigation matters and has conducted risk management and risk assessment seminars for various clients. In addition to his trial experience, lecturing and advising clients, Mr. Sistrunk has also served as a mediator in hundreds of matters.

Mr. Sistrunk's professional recognitions include being named as one of the "Top 100 Lawyers" in the state of Georgia by the National Trial Lawyers Association and has earned an *AV Preeminent rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, the highest achievable rating given to an attorney. He is a Charter Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and has been named by Men Looking Ahead News Magazine to its 2011 annual "Power List of Georgia's Most Powerful and Influential Lawyers".

_{*AV Preeminent and BV Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell peer review ratings fall into two categories: legal ability and general ethical standards.}