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Alan J. BavermanLitigation ProgramAlan J. Baverman was sworn in as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Georgia on February 1, 2001. Magistrate Judge Baverman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 19, 1956. He graduated from University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, in May 1978, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. He was selected as a member in Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society and Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, and won the Edelweiss Award for German Studies for a paper he wrote on National Socialism. While in college, he clerked for criminal defense lawyers in Towson, Maryland. Magistrate Judge Baverman received his Juris Doctorate degree from Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, in June 1981. While in law school, he was a summer clerk for Hon. Charles E. Moylan, Judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. He won the AmJur Award for Bankruptcy, and interned for the Federal Defender Program, Inc., where he worked on the Bert Lance trial, wrote the petition for a writ of certiorari and brief in Steagald v. United States, 451 U.S. 204 (1981), and tried cases under the Northern District of Georgia’s Third-Year Practice Act. After graduation from law school, Magistrate Judge Baverman was a law clerk for United States District Judge Harold L. Murphy in Rome, Georgia, from 1981 through 1983. From 1983 until 1986, he practiced criminal defense, civil litigation and entertainment law in association with Mark J. Kadish in Atlanta. From 1986 until 1989, Magistrate Judge Baverman was an associate in the Atlanta law firm of Chilivis & Grindler, where he represented clients in civil and criminal matters. In February 1989, Magistrate Judge Baverman started his own practice, with emphasis on representing people charged with crime, with a geographic focus on the Northern District of Georgia and the local courts in Cobb, DeKalb and Fulton Counties, and appeals in the Eleventh Circuit and the Georgia appellate courts. Approximately 30% of the practice consisted of appointed cases in federal court and Cobb County, and case specific appointments in Fulton County. He also appeared on a frequent basis in other federal courts in the southeast (E.D. Tennessee, W.D. North Carolina, N.D. Alabama and M.D. Georgia), and in a range of local county courts, such as Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Douglas, Fannin, Forsyth, Gilmer, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry and Spalding counties. He has been a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Atlanta Bar Association, and the ABA since 1981. Until his appointment, he was a member of the National Assn. of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Georgia Assn. of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the American and Georgia Trial Lawyers associations. He also served on the Northern District of Georgia Bar Council (Member 1999; Chair 2000). Magistrate Judge Baverman regularly speaks at Continuing Legal Education and other legal seminars, is an adjunct professor at Emory University and Georgia State University schools of law, and judges NITA and trial advocacy competitions. Magistrate Judge Baverman is married to Elida Baverman, and has three daughters. |
alan_j_baverman  @E R A S Egand.us.courts.gov Office: U.S. Magistrate Judge 1619 U.S. Courthouse 75 Spring Street, S.W. Atlanta, GA 30303 Phone: (404) 215-1395 Fax: (404) 215-1339 Directory LinksCourses Taught: Litigation |
