Leigh Martin May is a lawyer with Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer, LLP, a law firm with offices in Atlanta and Columbus, Georgia, and a nationwide plaintiffs personal injury and wrongful death practice. Ms. May's own practice focuses on catastrophic and fatal injury cases involving auto accidents, trucking accidents, defective or unreasonably dangerous products of every type and a variety of other causes.

Ms. May graduated with honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S., 1993) and magna cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law (J.D., 1998), where she also served as editor-in-chief of the school's law review for the 1997-98 academic year. Following law school, Ms. May served as a law clerk to the Honorable Dudley H. Bowen Jr., chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. In her professional career since that time, Ms. May has gone on to earn an AV Preeminent* peer review rating (the highest an attorney can achieve) through Martindale-Hubbell, publish numerous articles on personal injury and trial practice topics, and contribute to various legal organizations, including the State Bar of Georgia, the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers, the American Bar Association and the American Association for Justice.

_{*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.}