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11 Survivors of Sex Trafficking at Atlanta Red Roof Inn Locations Reach Midtrial Settlement — Attorney911 Holds Hotel Corporate Owners Accountable Under TVPRA and Georgia Premises Liability Law, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Trafficking Cases, We Preserve Room Folios, Staff Logs and Prior Police Calls Before They Vanish, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Severe Exploitation — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

June 22, 2026 31 min read
11 Survivors of Sex Trafficking at Atlanta Red Roof Inn Locations Reach Midtrial Settlement — Attorney911 Holds Hotel Corporate Owners Accountable Under TVPRA and Georgia Premises Liability Law, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Trafficking Cases, We Preserve Room Folios, Staff Logs and Prior Police Calls Before They Vanish, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Severe Exploitation — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911 - Attorney911

When a Hotel Profits From Trafficking: The Red Roof Atlanta Case and Your Rights Under Georgia Law

You are reading this for one of two reasons. Either you are a survivor who is finally putting words to what happened to you in an Atlanta hotel room — years of it, maybe, when every instinct told you something was wrong but no one with power looked at you long enough to see it. Or you are a mother, a sister, a daughter, a friend who started asking questions and could not stop, because the answers did not line up with the story the hotel kept telling.

If that is you, take a breath. What happened to you was not bad luck, not a “lifestyle,” not something you caused. Under federal and Georgia law, the place that rented the room to the man who hurt you may have a duty to you that runs deeper than the franchisor’s standard “we screen our drivers” boilerplate. And there is a new precedent you need to understand: in the summer of 2024, eleven women who were trafficked at two Red Roof Inn locations in Atlanta settled their civil case against the hotel’s corporate owners in the middle of trial. The terms are confidential. The case is real. And the legal road they walked is open to you.

We are a national trial firm that handles civil cases arising from human trafficking in hotels, motels, and short-term rentals across Georgia — including Atlanta, Fulton County, and the surrounding counties. We do this work because the worst corporate failures we see are the ones where a business with cameras at the front desk, key-card data on every door, and training manuals in every manager’s office looked straight at a woman in a third-floor room and decided the room revenue was more important than her safety. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes.

This page is built to walk you — a survivor, a family member, or an advocate — through exactly what the Red Roof settlement means, why the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPRA) and O.C.G.A. § 51-1-56 exist, what evidence disappears within weeks, and how the hotel’s insurer is going to try to fight you if you come forward. You do not need to decide anything by the end of this page. You need to understand what you have, and how fast you have to move to keep it.

Why a Hotel — Not Just the Trafficker — Can Be Held Liable

When we sit with a survivor in our conference room, the first hour is usually spent untangling the same confusion the hotel’s insurer is counting on: “The man is the one who hurt me. Why is the hotel in this case?”

The short answer is that the man who hurt you and the hotel that took his money are not the same problem, and the law does not make you choose. Federal law — the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) — gives a trafficking survivor a civil claim against any person or entity that knowingly benefited from the venture that trafficked her, not just against the trafficker himself. The “venture” does not have to be a corporation. Under 18 U.S.C. § 1591(e)(6), a venture is “any group of two or more individuals associated in fact, whether or not a legal entity.” That is deliberately broad. The trafficker and the hotel that rented him the room, day after day, can be that group.

Georgia law layers on top of that. O.C.G.A. § 51-1-56 creates a specific civil cause of action against a person or entity that “knowingly establishes, maintains, or benefits from a venture which that person knows or should know has engaged in an act in violation of” Georgia’s anti-trafficking statutes. Georgia also recognizes the ordinary premises liability duty under O.C.G.A. § 51-3-1 — a property owner must exercise ordinary care to keep the premises safe — and that duty extends to foreseeable criminal acts of third parties when the owner has “superior knowledge” of the danger.

So you are not suing a hotel instead of a trafficker. You are suing the trafficker, the hotel, and any other entity in the chain that benefited from what was done to you. That is the architecture the Red Roof Atlanta case was built on, and it is the architecture we use.

The Red Flags the Hotel Should Have Seen

A hotel’s “should have known” case is built out of a documented, repeating pattern of conduct that any trained hotel employee would have flagged. Federal training programs — including the Department of Homeland Security’s Blue Campaign and the anti-trafficking training materials from groups like Polaris — publish these indicators. Hotels that participate in brand anti-trafficking programs (and Red Roof was a participant in industry anti-trafficking initiatives) train their staff to watch for exactly this list.

The red flags we look for in a hotel case, and that the Red Roof Atlanta case almost certainly turned on, include:

  • Cash payments for rooms, especially repeated nightly cash, with the trafficker paying but never appearing at the front desk in person.
  • A stream of different men visiting one room, at all hours, on what housekeeping and security would have observed.
  • A guest who never leaves the room — the woman herself, controlled, fearful, often visibly coached on what to say.
  • “Do not disturb” for days on end, with housekeeping deliberately refused — sometimes with a sign left on the door by the trafficker.
  • Excessive requests for towels, linens, or cleaning supplies that don’t match the length of stay.
  • Rooms rented in a third party’s name for an occupant who never checks in.
  • Prior calls to the property by police or victim-advocacy groups that the front desk should have logged and escalated.
  • In-house incident reports from other staff — a housekeeper who complained, a maintenance worker who noticed, a night auditor who flagged the same room three weekends in a row.
  • AIDS for booking-pattern analytics — modern hotel property-management systems generate the kind of data that makes a pattern impossible to miss when somebody looks.

A hotel’s defense will say these indicators are ambiguous, that staff never reported them, that no single red flag was enough. That is a losing argument when the record shows the indicators repeated, were logged, and were not acted on. The constructive-knowledge case is built one log entry at a time.

Georgia’s Trafficking Statutes and Premises Liability: The Two Roads

In Georgia, you have two independent legal roads into a hotel-trafficking case. They are not mutually exclusive, and a strong case walks both.

The first road is the TVPRA federal civil remedy at 18 U.S.C. § 1595(a), which we covered above. It is federal law, applied in federal court or in state court under supplemental jurisdiction, and it gives you a cause of action against any entity that knowingly benefited from the venture.

The second road is Georgia’s own trafficking and premises law. O.C.G.A. § 51-1-56 creates a specific civil cause of action in Georgia state court against any person or entity that “knowingly establishes, maintains, controls, supervises, manages, or benefits from a venture which that person knows or should know has engaged in an act” that violates Georgia’s criminal anti-trafficking statutes. Georgia also recognizes a premises liability duty under O.C.G.A. § 51-3-1: a property owner must exercise ordinary care to keep the premises safe, and that duty extends to foreseeable criminal acts of third parties when the owner has superior knowledge of the danger. The “should have known” language in the TVPRA and the “superior knowledge” language in Georgia premises law do the same work in different courtrooms.

“An owner or occupier of land is liable in damages to such persons as frequent or come upon the land in question for such injuries or damages caused by his failure to exercise ordinary care in keeping the land and premises safe, where such owner or occupier has superior knowledge of the danger.”
O.C.G.A. § 51-3-1 (Georgia premises-liability statute)

“A person or entity that knowingly establishes, maintains, controls, supervises, manages, or benefits from a venture which that person knows or should know has engaged in an act in violation of [Code Section 16-5-46] or 18 U.S.C. Section 1591 shall be liable to the person injured.”
O.C.G.A. § 51-1-56 (Georgia’s anti-trafficking civil cause of action)

You do not have to pick one road or the other. The strongest cases use both — federal TVPRA claims for the breadth of the federal remedy and damages, and Georgia state-law claims for the additional state-law theories and the Georgia jury.

Georgia also imposes a specific duty on lodging facilities. O.C.G.A. § 43-21-16 requires certain lodging facilities to post human-trafficking awareness notices and to ensure that staff are trained to identify indicators of trafficking. A hotel that failed to comply with § 43-21-16 has not just a regulatory violation — it has a standard-of-care failure that the jury is entitled to hear about.

The Evidence That Disappears Fast

If you are considering a case, this is the section to read carefully, because the evidence that decides these cases is perishable in a way most survivors and families do not realize until it is too late.

CCTV / surveillance video. Hotel security cameras record the front desk, the hallways, the elevators, and often the parking lot. They are the single most important piece of evidence in a trafficking case — they show the trafficker checking in, the stream of men going to the room, the woman in the hallway with a blank expression, the cash being handed over. Industry standard for hotel CCTV is a rolling 30-day overwrite — the camera records over itself after about thirty days unless someone orders the hotel to preserve the footage. Some systems overwrite in a week. Some in days. The preservation letter that freezes the footage has to go out in the first days of any case, not the first months. Once the footage is overwritten, it is gone. A spoliation argument can be made against the hotel for letting it die, but a jury can never see what was on a tape that no longer exists.

Key-card and property-management-system (PMS) data. Every modern hotel runs a property management system that records, by the second, who swiped which key card to enter which room, when. That data shows the trafficker checking in, the room being accessed dozens of times in a single night, housekeeping refusing the room for days, the cash payments logged at the desk. The PMS data sits on the hotel’s servers and on the brand’s centralized reservation system. The retention policy is internal and varies — some chains keep it 12 months, some 24, some less. The preservation demand has to be specific and has to reach both the property and the brand’s corporate office.

Housekeeping and maintenance logs. When housekeeping wrote “refused service” or “no entry, per Mr. [trafficker],” that is logged. When maintenance came to fix the door lock that kept sticking, that is logged. When the night auditor wrote up the same room on three different weekends, that is logged. These logs sit on paper in a binder at the property, and on a server. The paper version disappears when the binder is thrown out. The digital version disappears per the chain’s retention policy.

Police call-for-service and CAD records. If police were ever called to the property — for a noise complaint, a disturbance, a welfare check, a domestic call — that history lives in the responding agency’s computer-aided-dispatch system and incident reports. The retention period varies by agency, but it is finite. The earlier you request it, the better.

In-house incident reports and staff complaints. The single most powerful piece of evidence in a constructive-knowledge case is a hotel employee’s own internal report of what they saw. The night auditor who wrote up the suspicious activity. The housekeeper who complained to the manager. The maintenance worker who noticed the smell. Those reports live in the hotel’s human resources and operations files and have a finite retention. They are the spine of the “the hotel knew” case.

The preservation letter. The single most important document we send in the first days of a hotel-trafficking case is a litigation-hold and preservation letter — to the property, to the brand’s corporate office, to the franchisee, to the manager-on-duty who was there at the time, identifying by name every category of record the hotel must freeze. If the hotel destroys the records after receiving that letter, the law in many states — and the federal law — allows the jury to be told to assume the missing records would have helped the plaintiff. The letter creates the spoliation lever. The letter has to go out in days, not weeks.

What the Hotel’s Insurer Will Do (and How We Counter Each Move)

In a hotel-trafficking case, the “adjuster” you will hear from is the hotel’s commercial general liability claims handler — usually an in-house team or a third-party administrator working for the hotel’s insurance carrier. The hotel itself may be self-insured, with a captive or large deductible, which means the people deciding whether to pay you work for the same company that put you in that room. Either way, the playbook is the same. Here are the plays we see, and how we counter each one.

Play 1: The confidential quick settlement before you find a lawyer. Within days or weeks of the incident, an adjuster or in-house claims manager will reach out — sometimes by phone, sometimes by registered letter — offering a small sum and a broad release. The check arrives with a confidentiality clause and a release that closes your right to sue for everything, forever. The number is calibrated to be enough to relieve immediate pressure but a fraction of what the case is worth. Counter: Do not sign anything. Do not cash any check. Do not give a recorded statement. The first call we make for you is to the adjuster telling them to talk to us, not to you. The settlement that takes your rights away for a few thousand dollars is not a settlement — it is a waiver you will never be able to unwind.

Play 2: “We were victims too” / blame the trafficker / argue no duty. The hotel’s defense will say the trafficker is the bad actor, that the hotel was deceived, that no reasonable front-desk clerk could have known. The argument usually relies on a redrafted franchise agreement and a hand-waving reference to the fact that the hotel “screens” its staff. Counter: Constructive knowledge is the answer. The red flags we list above — cash by the hour, the stream of men, the “do not disturb” for days, the prior police calls, the housekeeper’s complaint that went nowhere — are the constructive-knowledge case. We depose the manager, the night auditor, the housekeeper, the regional director. The franchise agreement and the “we had no duty” defense fall apart when the hotel’s own records show the pattern.

Play 3: “The franchisor didn’t do it — sue the operator.” This is the Doe #1 v. Red Roof shell-game move. The franchisor will point at the operator, the operator will point at the franchisor, and the survivor’s case gets caught in the middle. Counter: We name the right parties from the start. We identify the operating entity that ran the property, the franchisor if the brand exerted real operational control, and the holding company if that is where the insurance and the balance sheet live. The 2024 Red Roof settlement in Atlanta was possible because the survivors and their lawyers identified the operating entity correctly and built a case the operator could not walk away from.

Play 4: Delay, paper, and exhaustion. Insurers buy time. They file motions to dismiss, motions to transfer venue, motions to stay discovery, motions to bifurcate. Each motion costs you months. The strategy is to wear you down until you take whatever they offer. Counter: Federal cases move on federal timelines. The TVPRA gives us a federal forum and a federal statute of limitations. We litigate the case, not the delay. Every motion the insurer files gets a response, and every response goes into the case file the jury will eventually see.

Play 5: “You were a willing participant” / contributory fault. Some defendants will argue, particularly in cases involving adult survivors, that the survivor was a voluntary participant in commercial sex. This is the doctrine of “consent” in trafficking cases, and it is often wrong as a matter of law. Under federal and state trafficking law, consent is vitiated by force, fraud, coercion, or — for minors — by age alone. A jury instruction that conflates the trafficking survivor with a willing commercial-sex worker is reversible error. We will fight that argument at the pleading stage, at the summary-judgment stage, and at trial.

Why the First 72 Hours Matter

The single biggest determinant of whether a hotel-trafficking case is won is what happens in the first 72 hours after the survivor decides to come forward — or after a family member decides to ask the questions that have been waiting for years. By the time you have read this page, the answer to most of your questions is going to come down to a handful of urgent decisions.

Here is what we do, in order, in those first 72 hours:

Hour 1–4: Stabilize the survivor. Medical care if it has not already been obtained. Mental-health care. Safety. If the survivor is in immediate danger or has just left the situation, the first call is to law enforcement and to a victim-advocacy organization. The National Human Trafficking Hotline is 1-888-373-7888. We are not law enforcement and we are not a shelter, and we will say so. We are the lawyers.

Hour 4–24: Preserve the evidence. A preservation letter goes out — to the hotel property, to the brand’s corporate office, to the franchisee, naming the specific CCTV systems, the property-management system, the key-card logs, the housekeeping and maintenance logs, the in-house incident reports, the staff personnel files of the front-desk and housekeeping personnel on duty, the prior police-call history, the reservation and revenue records for the relevant dates. The letter is sent by certified mail and email, and it puts the hotel on notice that destroying any of those records is spoliation. We do this before the hotel can plausibly claim the records “expire” on their normal cycle.

Day 1–7: Build the case map. We identify the defendant. We pull the franchise agreement, the brand operations manual, the property’s safety and training records. We identify the corporate structure. We begin gathering the survivor’s medical and mental-health records with proper HIPAA releases. We identify the witnesses — the housekeeper, the night auditor, the regulars in the parking lot, the police officers who responded, the other survivors.

Day 7–30: File and serve. When the evidence is preserved and the case map is solid, we file. The TVPRA allows federal court; Georgia’s § 51-1-56 allows state court; we choose the venue that best fits the case. Once filed, the case moves under the federal or Georgia rules, with a clear timeline and clear leverage.

The Red Roof Atlanta case did not settle in the middle of trial because the hotel was feeling generous. It settled because by the middle of trial, the women and their lawyers had a record that the jury was about to see, and the hotel made the rational business decision that the verdict would be worse than the settlement. The first 72 hours are where that record starts to be built.

Frequently Asked Questions

What actually happened in the Red Roof Inn Atlanta trafficking case?

In June 2024, the corporate owners of two Red Roof Inn locations in Atlanta and 11 women who claimed they were trafficked at those properties reached a midtrial settlement. The women alleged the hotel knew, or should have known, that trafficking was occurring for years and failed to intervene. The terms of the settlement are confidential. The case was filed as a civil premises liability and sex trafficking case under the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act and Georgia law. The case is being watched by human-rights groups, anti-trafficking task forces, and trial lawyers across the country because it is one of the first midtrial resolutions of a civil trafficking case against a major hotel chain in Georgia.

How long do I have to sue a hotel for sex trafficking in Georgia?

Under the federal TVPRA, you have 10 years from the date the cause of action arose, or 10 years from your 18th birthday if you were a minor at the time. Under Georgia law, the personal-injury statute of limitations is generally 2 years from the date of injury, but Georgia applies a discovery rule — the clock does not start until you knew, or reasonably should have known, both the injury and that it was caused by someone else’s wrongful act. For most trafficking survivors, the federal 10-year window is the operative limit. If you were trafficked as a child and the conduct ended when you were 18, you have until your 28th birthday. The earlier you call, the better — because the evidence clock (CCTV, PMS data, housekeeping logs) is much shorter than the legal clock.

What is the TVPRA and how does it help trafficking survivors?

The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act is the federal law, originally passed in 2000 and reauthorized multiple times, that creates civil and criminal liability for human trafficking. The civil-remedy provision is 18 U.S.C. § 1595(a), and it allows a trafficking survivor to sue not just the trafficker but any person or entity that “knowingly benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture which that person knew or should have known has engaged in an act in violation of this chapter.” That language reaches hotels, motels, short-term-rental hosts, and any other business that took money from a trafficking operation. The TVPRA also has a 10-year statute of limitations (18 U.S.C. § 1595(c)) and a fee-shifting provision that allows the survivor to recover reasonable attorney fees. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes.

Can I sue the hotel brand if the hotel was a franchise?

It depends on the brand’s level of operational control. A federal appeals court in Atlanta — the Eleventh Circuit — held in Doe #1 v. Red Roof Inns, Inc., 21 F.4th 714 (11th Cir. 2021) that a franchisor could not be held liable under the TVPRA merely because it collected franchise fees and could have known about the trafficking. The court dismissed the franchisor as a defendant. That ruling left the operator of the property on the hook, and the 2024 midtrial settlement in Atlanta was almost certainly with the operating entity. If the brand exercised real operational control — dictating staffing, training, security protocols, reservation systems — the analysis is different. The first question in any hotel-trafficking case is identifying which entity in the corporate stack actually ran the property and which entity holds the insurance and the money.

What are the “red flags” a hotel should have noticed?

A trained hotel employee should recognize the warning signs of trafficking. Federal and industry anti-trafficking training programs (including the Department of Homeland Security’s Blue Campaign and the work of groups like Polaris) publish a list of indicators: cash payments for rooms, especially repeated nightly; a stream of different men visiting one room at all hours; a guest who never leaves the room; “do not disturb” for days on end with housekeeping refused; excessive requests for towels and linens; rooms rented in a third party’s name; prior police calls; in-house staff complaints that were not acted on; and pattern-based booking analytics that modern property-management systems generate. The hotel’s defense will argue that no single indicator was enough to act on. The constructive-knowledge case is built by showing that the indicators repeated, were logged, and were not acted on.

What evidence do I need to prove a hotel facilitated trafficking?

The four key categories are: (1) CCTV and security video of the front desk, hallways, elevators, and parking lot showing the trafficker, the stream of visitors, and the survivor; (2) property-management-system and key-card data showing the pattern of room access and the cash transactions; (3) housekeeping and maintenance logs showing the “do not disturb” refusals, the prior complaints, the room-condition notes; and (4) in-house incident reports and staff complaints — the night auditor’s write-ups, the housekeeper’s complaints to the manager, the maintenance worker’s notes. All of this evidence is perishable. The single most important thing we do in the first days of a case is send the preservation letter that freezes it.

How much is my case worth against a hotel in Georgia?

The honest answer is that we cannot tell you without knowing the facts. Comparable trafficking cases against hotel operators have resolved in the mid-seven figures to the high eight figures depending on duration of trafficking, severity of injury, strength of the constructive-knowledge evidence, defendant solvency, and venue. A case with years of documented trafficking, severe psychological injury, clear evidence the hotel knew, and a solvent defendant can be substantial. Georgia is a venue that historically awards significant damages in negligent-security and premises-liability cases against corporate defendants. We will not give you a number over a web page. We will give you an honest assessment at a free consultation. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes.

What if I was trafficked years ago — am I too late?

Almost certainly not. The federal TVPRA gives you 10 years from the cause of action, or 10 years from your 18th birthday if you were a minor. Georgia’s discovery rule means the state-law clock often starts later than you think. We have seen survivors trafficked in the early 2000s who are still within time. The deadline is a question of specific facts, and the only way to know is to talk to a lawyer who has handled these cases. If you are not sure whether the deadline has passed, the answer is almost always that you have more time than you think — but call today so we can tell you for certain.

Do I have to face my trafficker in court?

In a civil case, generally no. The trafficker is typically a defendant, but in many cases the trafficker is incarcerated or has disappeared, and the case is built against the hotel that profited from the operation. The trial of a hotel-trafficking case is usually about the hotel’s conduct — what its staff saw, what its records show, what its training was, what its corporate structure looked like. You will not be asked to face the trafficker in open court in the way you may fear.

How long does a hotel trafficking case take?

Civil trafficking cases typically take 12 to 30 months from filing to resolution, depending on whether the case settles, goes to trial, or is appealed. The Red Roof Atlanta case reached a midtrial settlement, which means it had been in litigation long enough to clear early motions, get to trial, and reach a point where the hotel’s defense made a business decision to resolve rather than face a verdict. Most cases resolve short of trial, but the cases that get to trial are the ones that produce the results that change industry behavior. We will give you a realistic timeline at your free consultation.

What does it cost to hire a lawyer for a hotel trafficking case?

We work on contingency. Our fee is 33.33% of the recovery before trial and 40% if the case goes to trial. No fee unless we win. The TVPRA’s fee-shifting provision (18 U.S.C. § 1595(a)) also allows a prevailing survivor to recover reasonable attorney fees from the defendant, which is one of the reasons we can take these cases on a contingency basis. Free consultation. 24/7 live staff. You pay nothing up front and nothing out of pocket.

Will the hotel’s insurer settle, or will this go to trial?

Most cases settle. The Red Roof Atlanta case settled midtrial, which is the most common resolution for a case that gets past the early motions. The hotel’s insurer will do its own cost-benefit analysis: the cost of a confidential settlement versus the cost of a verdict plus the cost of the brand damage from a public trial. The cases that settle are the ones where the constructive-knowledge evidence is so strong that the insurer cannot reasonably bet on a defense verdict. We build the case to that standard from day one.

What if the trafficker is in prison or has disappeared?

Most civil trafficking cases proceed against the corporate defendant even when the trafficker is unavailable. The hotel’s duty to the survivor is independent of the trafficker’s availability, and the constructive-knowledge case is built from the hotel’s own records — CCTV, PMS, housekeeping logs, staff complaints — not from the trafficker’s testimony. The absence of a criminal conviction is not a bar to a civil case. The civil standard of proof is lower than the criminal standard, and the case can be built on the hotel’s own documents.

I don’t live in Georgia. Can I still bring a case?

The case is filed where the trafficking happened. If you were trafficked in Atlanta, the case is filed in Georgia. You do not need to live in Georgia to bring the case — you need to have been trafficked there, or to have been trafficked in a hotel that operates in a Georgia venue. We handle the logistics of remote representation, and our Georgia trial team works with local counsel where required.

What is the difference between a trafficking case and a regular premises liability case?

A premises liability case asks whether the property owner failed to keep the premises safe. A trafficking case asks whether the property owner knowingly benefited from a venture that trafficked a person. The trafficking case has a higher damages ceiling (including punitive damages), a longer statute of limitations (10 years under the TVPRA), and a fee-shifting provision that regular premises cases do not have. The trafficking case also has a different proof structure — it does not require proving the hotel caused the trafficking, only that it knew about it and profited from it. We bring the trafficking case alongside the premises case, and the two work together.

What happens after I call?

A free consultation with a member of our Georgia trial team. We listen. We answer the questions you have. We tell you honestly whether we can help. If we can, we explain the process, the timeline, the evidence we need, and the fee structure. If we cannot, we tell you that, and we point you to the National Human Trafficking Hotline (1-888-373-7888) and to the victim-advocacy resources in your area. We will not pressure you, and we will not sign you up for anything you do not want. Our entire practice is built on the belief that the right way to handle these cases is the way that puts the survivor in control of the decision.


Talk to Us Tonight

If you are a survivor of trafficking in a hotel in Atlanta or anywhere in Georgia, the call we want you to make first is to the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888. They are available 24 hours a day, every day, and they can connect you with local victim-advocacy and shelter resources.

The call you make second is to us. 1-888-ATTY-911. Twenty-four hours a day. Free consultation. No fee unless we win. A real person answers — not a call center, not an answering service. We will talk to you about what happened, what your rights are, and what the road looks like. We will explain everything in plain English. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right firm for your case, and if we are not, we will tell you who might be.

Hablamos Español. Lupe Peña conducts full consultations in Spanish without an interpreter. If you or your family speaks Spanish, that call is the same number: 1-888-ATTY-911.

We have built this practice to take on the cases most firms turn away — the cases where the defendant is a sophisticated corporate structure with lawyers of its own, where the evidence is hidden in CCTV and key-card data and a hundred housekeepers’ logs, and where the survivor is someone the system has failed before. We do not do this work for everyone. We do it for the people who call us. If that is you, the number is 1-888-ATTY-911.

You can also reach us through our contact page, learn more about our practice areas, or read more about how contingency fees work in injury cases. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes. The Red Roof Atlanta case was settled on confidential terms, and the same legal road that produced that settlement is open to you today.

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