Kristin Pierson is a Partner with BENDIN SUMRALL & LADNER, LLC in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her law degree from the Charleston School of Law in Charleston, South Carolina, where she founded the Health Law & Bioethics Society and served as its President, creating the law school’s annual Bioethics Symposium. Kristin also served as a member of the Moot Court Board and the Charleston Law Review, and she worked with the Medical University of South Carolina to establish a collaborative teaching relationship between the medical school and the law school.
Kristin received her undergraduate degree in Health Law and Bioethics from Davidson College, where she graduated with honors as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. While at Davidson, she co-founded Davidson’s Bioethics Society and started The Ethical View, a bioethics publication of the Medical Humanities Department. She served on Davidson’s Medical Humanities Advisory Council, Ethics Committees, and its Human Subjects Institutional Review Board. She also served on the Ethics Committee at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, as a consultant, and conducted an extensive two-year clinical internship in the Level 1 hospital’s Trauma Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department. Before joining the firm, Kristin served as a Trauma & Risk Management Research Specialist at Lake Norman Regional Medical Center in North Carolina and then as a Research Coordinator at Emory University School of Medicine, where she conducted neurosurgery research on traumatically brain-injured patients at Grady Memorial Hospital under the then–Chief of Neurosurgery, Dr. Odette Harris. Kristin was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and moved to Atlanta in 1996. She enjoys running and cooking Louisiana Cajun and Creole favorites, such as gumbo, jambalaya, and étouffée. PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE/MEDICAL MALPRACTICE Kristin represents hospitals, physicians, nurses, and other allied health care professionals in medical malpractice and intentional tort lawsuits, as well as in pre-litigation medical malpractice matters, including Georgia Composite Medical Board matters. GENERAL LIABILITY Kristin also represents hospitals in general liability matters, including trip-and-fall and slip-and-fall litigation, and in hospital inpatient transfer and discharge practice matters, as well as ethical-legal matters that arise in the course of day-to-day medical care.