• Class and collective action experience includes defense of consumer protection and product liability actions in state and federal courts.
• Product liability experience includes electronics, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, power tools, golf carts and kitchen products.
• Cases representative of commercial litigation experience include:
  • Represents a national restaurant company in commercial, real estate and other litigation, including successful defense of franchisor's independent contractor status.
  • Represented a multi-state convenience store owner whose franchise was terminated by a major oil company.
  • Represented a national telecommunications company in arbitration over the termination of fiber-optic cable lease agreements.
  • Represented a commodities trading company in defense of breach of fiduciary duty claim relating to joint venture.
• Pro bono practice includes representation of indigent criminal and civil defendants in appeals to the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. 

• Judicial Clerk, Hon. Julie E. Carnes, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, 1998-99

• Member, State Bar of Georgia
• Member, Atlanta Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Defense Research Institute, Drug & Medical Device Litigation
• Admitted to practice:  Second and Eleventh United States Circuit Courts of Appeal, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Georgia Supreme Court, Georgia Court of Appeals

Other

• Runs marathons to raise funding for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

• J.D., Emory University School of Law, with distinction, Order of the Coif, Articles Editor, Emory Law Journal, 1998
  
• B.S., Florida State University, 1995