Partner
CurrentI am a partner in the firm’s Government Law and Business and Professional Liability practice groups. I am an accomplished trial attorney and have tried over 50 jury trials to verdict in cases throughout the country.I have a broad based litigation practice with a focus on local government defense. I have defended cities, counties, school districts, sheriffs, teachers, administrators, and various other types of governmental entities and individuals in civil rights and general liability matters. My practice also includes defense of clients in a variety of commercial and complex litigation matters. I am panel counsel for a number of the nation's largest providers of commercial general liability coverage.I received both my undergraduate and law degree from Emory University where I served as a Notes and Comments Editor on the editorial board of the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal. Previously, I served as a law clerk with the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia, serving as clerk to The Honorable W. Homer Drake, Jr., Bankruptcy Judge and The Honorable A. David Kahn, Chief Bankruptcy Judge. I also served as a litigation instructor at Emory University School of Law in the Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program. I have also been selected both as a "Rising Star" and as a "Super Lawyer" by Atlanta Magazine on multiple occasions.I am admitted to practice as follows:- All Georgia State and Superior Courts;- All Florida Circuit and County Courts;- U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia;- U.S. District Court Middle District of Georgia;- Georgia Court of Appeals;- All Florida District Courts of Appeal;- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit;- Supreme Court of Georgia;- Florida Supreme Court; and- United States Supreme Court.
