Advocating For Our Clients Since 2005
Education
- Tulane Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana
- 05/1998
- Honors: cum laude
- Honors: Awarded Certificate of Advance Study of Arbitration
- Honors: Appointed to Dean’s Advisory Committee and ADR Academic Advisory Committee
- Honors: Chief Administrator of the Honor Board
- Honors: Awarded the Gary Lawton Fretwell Award
- Universita Di Siena, Siena
- 1997
- The American University, Washington, District of Columbia
- B.A., Bachelor of Arts - 05/1991
- Major: Literature
Bar Admissions
- Georgia
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- Supreme Court of Georgia
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Georgia
Professional Associations
- Former Chair, Appellate Practice Section of State Bar of Georgia
- Chair, Georgia Appellate Practice Seminar 2002, 2003
- Eleventh Circuit Appellate Practice Institute, (ECAPI), Organizing Committee
- American Bar Association, White Collar Criminal Law Section
- American Bar Association, Council of Appellate Lawyers
- Atlanta Bar Association
Published Works
- Professionalism on Appeal as Reflected in the Rules of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Written Materials for ECAPI, October 2008
- Raising Claims of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel on Appeal in Georgia, The Appellate Review, Vol. 4, Number 1 (November 2004)
- Review of the Georgia Supreme Court’s Appellate Practice Decisions for 2002 through 2003Article for ICLE’s Georgia Appellate Practice Seminar 2003
Honors
- Georgia Super Lawyer
Pro-Bono Activities
- Lawyers Club of Atlanta, President Elect
- Lawyers Foundation of Georgia
- Former Coach, High School Mock Trial Team, The Paideia School
- Former Alumni Advisory Committee, The Paideia School
Past Positions
- Georgia Department of Law, Criminal Division, Assistant Attorney General