Michelle E. Rossi represents people and families who have been injured because of someone else’s negligence. She handles cases throughout Georgia involving car and commercial-truck accidents, dangerous property conditions, catastrophic injuries, and wrongful death.
Michelle understands on a personal level how suddenly an injury can change someone’s life. When she was a teenager, she suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident while riding as a back-seat passenger. Her injuries ultimately required a cervical fusion when she was only 15 years old. That experience has stayed with her and influences the way she works with her clients. She understands that an injury affects much more than a person’s medical records—it can change how someone works, cares for a family, and goes about everyday life.
Michelle has helped obtain significant results for her clients, including a $1.8 million jury verdict against the City of Atlanta and a $3.5 million premises-liability settlement with firm partner Matthew T. Wilson. She works closely with her clients from the beginning of the case through discovery, depositions, mediation, and trial.
Before she began representing injured plaintiffs, Michelle practiced at two insurance-defense firms, where she represented drivers, homeowners, and businesses. Her defense experience taught her how insurance companies evaluate claims and how defense attorneys prepare cases. She now puts that knowledge to work for her clients.
Michelle is originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She attended Elon University, where she double-majored in Political Science and Psychology. Before law school, she clerked for Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Carl R. Fox in Raleigh and assisted with civil and felony criminal matters. She earned her law degree from Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School in 2013 and is admitted to practice in Georgia.
Michelle is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. She was selected for the 2026–2027 GTLA LEAD class and serves on the Board of Directors of Side by Side Brain Injury Clubhouse. Side by Side’s work helping people rebuild their lives after a brain injury is especially meaningful to Michelle because of her own experience.
Michelle lives in Atlanta with her husband, Kellum Welton, and their two daughters. Outside the office, she enjoys spending time with her family and riding her horses, Hoss and Tucker, in Cartersville.