About Forrest
Forrest Jackson began his legal path after completing a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, with a concentration in finance, at Auburn University in 1998. He earned his Juris Doctor from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in 2007. Those academic years framed a practical approach to law that he carried into practice.
He entered private practice immediately after law school, joining Phillip E. Gable, P.C. as an associate in 2007. Two years later he moved to Brock & Stout, LLC, broadening his courtroom experience. In 2012 he took an associate position with Donward & Associates, PLC, where he continued handling contested matters and client advocacy. In 2014 he opened Jackson Law Office, PLLC and has served as owner and managing lawyer since then.
Jackson is licensed in three states: Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. He maintains memberships in multiple professional organizations that reflect his practice interests. He has been a member of the Alabama Bar Association since 2007 and joined the Chattanooga Bar Association in 2015. He has held membership in the Georgia Bar Association since 2017. On a national level, he belongs to NOSSCR, the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives, a membership he has maintained since 2009. He also joined the American Association for Justice and the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association in 2018.
Locally and regionally, Jackson has taken on a leadership role concerning disability law. Since 2015 he has served on the Executive Council for the Social Security Disability Section of the Tennessee Bar Association. That position involves work on policy, education and the procedural issues that affect claimants and counsel in disability matters. His continuing association with NOSSCR and the Tennessee disability section signals an ongoing engagement with Social Security disability practice and case law developments.
Colleagues describe him as a lawyer who builds a practice through steady courtroom work and steady client representation rather than publicity. He has moved from associate roles into managing his own firm, a trajectory that mixed trial-room experience with the demands of running a small practice. The office he founded, Jackson Law Office, PLLC, remains his base of operations.
Jackson lives by the day-to-day work of representing clients in administrative and civil forums. His current practice centers on Social Security disability representation and plaintiff-side civil litigation at Jackson Law Office, PLLC.
