Brad Carver is a Partner with the law firm of Hall Booth Smith and is the Senior Managing Director of Government Affairs. He focuses his practice on energy, utilities, environmental and local government law specializing in electric, natural gas, and telecommunications regulation and represents clients before the Georgia Public Service Commission, Georgia Environmental Protection Division, and Georgia General Assembly. Mr. Carver also specializes in water and wastewater permitting issues with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division. Mr. Carver also has a robust economic development practice negotiating tax incentives from state and local governments for clients. Mr. Carver helps international clients looking to locate their operations in Georgia and the rest of the Southeast and focuses particularly on German clients. He is the Secretary of the German American Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta. Prior to Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, P.C., Mr. Carver worked for Miller & Martin, Alston & Bird, the Georgia Municipal Association and Georgia Power Company. He continues to actively serve in the U.S. Army Reserves in the rank of Major as the Senior Legal Opinions Attorney and Team Leader for the 213th Legal Operations Detachment in Decatur, Georgia. During law school, Mr. Carver deployed with the Army to Tuzla, Bosnia from May 1996 to January 1997 as the Commander of a Detachment of the 341st Adjutant General Co. and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. In September 2003, Mr. Carver returned to Atlanta from a 14-month tour of duty in Kuwait and Iraq where he supported 3rd Army as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for exceptionally meritorious service during combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.Specialties: Lobbying before the Georgia General AssemblyRepresentation before the Georgia Public Service Commission and Georgia Environmental Protection Division.