Tbilaw.com has been at the cornerstone of the web advocacy of the Brain Injury Law Group since it went online in 1996.For a full treatment of the topic of brain injury, and recovering adequate compensation for those who have survived such injury, please visit our other pages.
Waiting.com, a page designed to assist those with issues regarding coma, especially in the acute phase when the doctors are saying "I just don't know."
Vestibulardisorder.com addresses vertigo and dizziness resulting from trauma as well as information and resources for vestibular disorders.
Subtlebraininjury.com focuses on all aspects of concussion and non-coma injuries.

The Brain Injury Law Group was founded by Attorney Gordon S. Johnson, Jr., with the objective of assuring that our mission of education and advocacy for persons with brain injury reaches people throughout the country. We believe that the representation of those with a brain injury requires specialized background and training.

Towards that goal, we have sponsored several brain injury related web pages: http://tbilaw.com and its companion site: http://waiting.com. We are active with respect to education and teaching about brain injury issues and are available to speak to brain injury groups on a number of topics.

Attorney Gordon S. Johnson, Jr., is an attorney with 25 years of experience, whose practice is focused on representing those who have suffered traumatic brain injuries.

Mr. Johnson's advocacy is not limited to legal representation of the brain injured, but also includes a daily commitment to education and advocacy. In addition, The Brain Injury Law Office sponsors waiting.com, The Coma Waiting Page, a web page dedicated to disseminating information about brain injury, to the family members of someone who is in a coma. Mr. Johnson also owns and moderates an email advocacy lists for brain injury, including the tbi-attorney list, an information exchange for attorneys who represent those with brain injury

Mr. Johnson is a member of the Brain Injury Association of Wisconsin and the national BIA. His service for the BIA-WI has included serving two terms on its board of directors and editing the associations newsletter. Mr. Johnson has been appointed by Wisconsin's governor to the state sub-agency, the TBI-Advisory Board.

Mr. Johnson is also on the executive board of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Litigation Group for TBI.

He is a graduate of Northwestern University, BS-Journalism and a 1979 graduate cum laude of the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Recent speaking credits:

February, 1995: Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group Conference, New Orleans, LA, "The Demonstration of the Neuropsychological Exam."
January, 1996: Brain Injury Association of Wisconsin, Trial Lawyers Conference, Milwaukee, WI "Traumatic Brain Injury in the Whiplash Case."
February, 1996: Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group Conference, New Orleans, LA, "In Defense of the Term Whiplash."
July, 1996: ATLA National Convention, Boston, MA. Moderator on the Program on Brain Injury.
September, 1996: Brain Injury Associations, national Trial Lawyers Conference, Palm Beach, FL, "Recognizing Post Concussion Syndrome Cases."
November, 1996: Brain Injury Conference, New Orleans, LA, "Screening Clients for the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Case."
December, 1996 and March, 1997: Wisconsin Association of Trial Lawyers Conf., "Screening Clients for the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Case."
April, 1997: BIA of Wisconsin Annual Conference, "Brain Injury Advocacy and the Web" with Becca Martin of waiting.com
May, 1997: Brain Injury Association of Wisconsin, Trial Lawyers Conference, host, moderator and sponsor.
September, 1997: BIA National Trial Lawyers Conference, San Francisco, CA, "Help from Cyberspace with Your Brain Injury Case."
November, 1997: Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers Association "The Lawyer's Role In Identifying Brain Injury".
February, 1998: Brain Injury Association of Utah, Trial Lawyers Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah. "Help from Cyberspace with Your Brain Injury Case."
August, 1998: Columbus, Ohio, Ohio Trial Lawyers Conference on Brain Injury.
September, 1998: BIA National Trial Lawyers Conference, Palm Beach, FL, "Help from Cyberspace with Your Brain Injury Case."
February, 1999: Southern Trial Lawyers Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana. "Plaintiff's Counterattack in the Non-Coma Brain Injury Case".
September, 1999: BIA National Trial Lawyers Conference, Phoenix, Arizona.
September, 1999: BIA I & R Conference, Phoenix, AZ, "Understanding Mild Brain Injury".
July, 2000: Belli Seminar, San Francisco, CA, "My Favorite Case, The High IQ Plaintiff, After Brain Injury."
September, 2000: BIA National Trial Lawyers Conference, Palm Beach, FL.
June, 2001: Ohio Brain Injury Conference, "The Synergistic Interplay of Post-Concussional Deficits."
July 2001, Belli Seminar, Montreal, Canada. "The Synergistic Interplay of Post-Concussional Deficits."
February, 2002: Southern Trial Lawyers Convention, New Orleans, LA, organized, moderated the brain injury symposium, and talk "Future of Brain Injury Representation."
March, 2002: NCA Litigating Mild and Severe Brain Injury, Houston, TX "Preparing the Neuropsychologist for the Misdirection of the Defense."
July, 2002: Belli Seminar, Atlanta, Georgia. "Valedictorians After Brain Injury."
July, 2002: ATLA Convention, Atlanta, Georgia "Neuroimaging Today and in the Future."
September, 2002: BIA of California Conference, Napa, CA, "Understanding the Full Spectrum of Damages in Brain Injury Cases."
February, 2003: Southern Trial Lawyers Convention, New Orleans, LA, organized, moderated the brain injury symposium, and talk "Understanding the Vocational Impact of Brain Injury."
July, 2003: Belli Seminar, San Francisco, CA. "The Eggshell Psyche."
July, 2003: ATLA Convention, San Francisco, CA, "Direct Exam of the Plaintiff's Neurologist."
September, 2003: BIA of California Conference, Napa, CA, "Direct Exam of the Plaintiff's Neurologist."
January, 2004: Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, Workhorse Seminar, Orlando, FL, "Twelve Factors in Deciding Whether to Take a Brain Injury Case."

NEXT: ESSAYS

"No head injury is too severe to despair of, nor too trivial to ignore."- Hippocrates

 

Understanding Subtle Brain Injury

View our video series on concussion.

The concussions that disable, are almost always more symptomatic at 24 hours, than at the 2-4 hour time frame when injured persons are evaluated in the emergency room. Brain injury symptoms escalate over the first 24 hours, because brain injury involves a cascade of events. It is critical that if you are still symptomatic the day after your injury, go back to the same Emergency Room, don’t wait for a doctors appointment. It is critical that the Emergency Room personnel see that the symptoms still persist or have gotten worse.

 

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This site is brought to you by the advocates of the Brain Injury Law Group, a community of plaintiff's trial lawyers across the United States united by a common interest in serving the rights of persons with traumatic brain injuries and a common commitment to fully understanding the anatomic, medical and psychological aspects of TBI.

The Brain Injury Law Group is involved with a network of plaintiff's trial lawyers across the United States united by a common interest in serving the rights of persons with traumatic brain injuries and a common commitment to fully understanding the anatomic, medical and psychological aspects of TBI, so we may be of better service to the survivors of brain injury. This network of lawyers are not part of a national law firm. We have separate law practices and are licensed to practice only in our home states.

The Brain Injury Law Group is here to listen and for that reason we maintain an 800 number and a staff willing to discuss your case and legal information where appropriate. There is no charge to call. We only represent people on a contingent fee basis and charge a fee only when we recover for the client. For more on Attorney Gordon Johnson, click here.