EXPERIENCED GEORGIA TRIAL LAWYER
Areas of practice
- Medical malpractice
- Business litigation
- Tort litigation
- Civil rights defense
- Local government law
- Insurance Defense
Admitted to practice
Awards and honors
- AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®
- Named as a Georgia Super Lawyer by Atlanta Magazine (2004 to present)
- Chief Justice Thomas O. Marshall Professionalism Award, June 2014 (State Bar of Georgia)
- Inaugural Robert B. Struble Professionalism Award, December 2015 (Mountain Judicial Circuit)
- Top rated Litigator Ranked by American Lawyer Media and Martindale-Hubbell
- Tradition of Excellence Award, June 2016 (State Bar of Georgia)
Education
- University of Georgia, J.D., 1971
- Clemson University, B.S., 1968
Professional memberships
- Stephens County Bar Association
President, 1978 – 1980
- Mountain Judicial Circuit Bar Association
President, 1980 – 1981
- State Bar of Georgia
- Georgia Defense Lawyers Association
- Defense Research Institute
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
- Member Chattahoochee Inn of Court
- Member Old War Horse Lawyers Club
Biography
- Born in Anderson, South Carolina
- Phi Delta Phi
- Blue Key
- President, City Attorneys Section, Georgia Municipal Association, 1986 – 1987
- Member, State Disciplinary Board, 1986 – 1991