Meet the Adjunct Faculty

Tracey Barbaree

Tracey represents employers in all aspects of employment and civil rights litigation, with a focus on Rule 23 class actions and defending collective action claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Tracey particularly enjoys litigating individual employment discrimination claims in a cost-effective, summary judgment-focused manner that regularly results in dismissal of the claims before trial. She has been recognized as a Georgia "Super Lawyer" in Labor and Employment since 2008 and is listed in Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business.

At The Ohio State University College of Law, Tracey was a managing editor of The Ohio State Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. Tracey also worked as a judicial clerk for the Hon. Richard C. Freeman, U.S. District Court Judge, Northern District of Georgia and continues to rely on insights from that experience in her practice today.

Tracey enjoys speaking to students and professional groups on employment law issues.

Roberta Marie Berry

Amy Bogartz

Amy Bogartz currently practices products liability law at Cottrell, Inc. in Gainesville, Georgia. As a former associate at Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP and Fulton County Superior Court law clerk, Ms. Bogartz has experience in civil and criminal litigation, general corporate and transactional work.

Ms. Bogartz earned a B.A. from Emory University in 1992 and a J.D. degree from Georgia State University College of Law in 1997.

Jeffrey H. Brickman

Jeffrey H. Brickman is a partner at Ballard Spahr LLP, where he specializes in State and Federal Criminal Defense. Before entering private practice in 2005, Jeffrey served as an Assistant District Attorney in DeKalb County, Georgia, from 1989 to 1997, during which time he exclusively prosecuted major felonies, including high-profile homicide, rape, armed robbery, child sexual and physical abuse, and fraud cases. For two of those years, Jeffrey served as the Chief of the Crimes Against Children Unit. From 1997 to 2004, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, where he investigated and prosecuted a wide range of federal crimes including fraud, drug trafficking, child pornography, and cyber-crime cases.

In 2004, Governor Sonny Perdue appointed Jeffrey as DeKalb County District Attorney. In this role, he was responsible for supervising the investigation and prosecution of over 6,000 felony cases. During his prosecutorial career, he was responsible for the preparation, investigation, and prosecution of more than 100 jury trials.

Over his 20 year career, Jeffrey has dedicated a substantial amount of his time to the training and teaching of law enforcement, prosecutors, and defense attorneys. For the past three years, he has served as an Adjunct Professor at Emory University School of Law, where he received an LLM in Litigation in 1989. He is a frequent lecturer for the Georgia Association of Defense Attorneys, the State Bar of Georgia and Emory University Law School’s annual NITA program.

Joseph F. Burford

Education
West Virginia University: A.B., Chemistry w/ minor Biology, B.S., Business Administration
Georgia State University: J.D., College of Law  

Experience
Corporate America, Sales / Marketing       
Ski Resort, Owner / Operator
Fulton County District Attorney's Office: Senior Trial Attorney, Major Case Division
Prosecuting Attorneys' Council: Director, Trial Support Division
Georgia State University, College of Law: Adjunct Professor, Advanced Evidence, Coach - STLA Trial Teams

Alison Burleson

Alison Burleson is currently the Assistant District Attorney in the Morgan County District Attorney's Office where she is responsible for the prosecution of all felonies and misdemeanors for the County. A career prosecutor, Ms. Burleson previously served as the Chief Assistant Solicitor-General of the DeKalb County Solicitor-General's Office, as well as an Assistant District Attorney in the DeKalb County District Attorney's Office.

In addition, Ms. Burleson assists with the law school's Student Trial Lawyers Association coaching mock trial competition teams throughout the year, and she has been a frequent instructor to law enforcement and to prosecutors throughout the State.

Ms. Burleson received her B.A. in History from Agnes Scott College in 1995 and her J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law in 2000.

Jeremy Burnette

Jeremy is an associate in the Complex Litigation Practice Group at Troutman Sanders LLP. His practice focuses primarily on defending financial institutions and pharmaceutical companies against putative class action lawsuits. He also represents clients in derivative suits and putative securities fraud class actions asserting claims under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Jeremy also lends litigation support to the intellectual property and environmental litigation teams. He has represented a wide range of health care providers and other clients in litigation, arbitration, and administrative actions, and he has assisted in the defense of companies investigated by the United States Department of Justice. 

Jeremy graduated first in his law school class at Georgia State University in 2005. In 1996, Jeremy completed a graduate degree in Clinical/Professional Psychology. He then taught psychology at the university level and provided psychological services in private practice for several years. He also has experience in contract and program management and child abuse prevention. 

Presentations and Speaking Engagements

• "Lincoln on Professionalism," CLE presentation by Atlanta Bar Association, essayist and panelist, 2010. 
• State Bar of Georgia, Diversity CLE presentation, panelist, 2009.
• Multi-Bar Leadership Council, CLE presentation, panelist, 2008.
• Jeremy also guest lectures to college classes regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act and the insanity defense.

Publications 

• Mass Tort Discovery and the FRCP 30(b)(6) Witness, Defense Research Institute Drug & Medical Device Seminar, 2008 (co-authored). 
• ERISA as an Obstacle to "Fair Share" Legislation and Potentially Other State Legislative Approaches to Medicaid Shortfalls and the Growing Number of Uninsured and Underinsured, 1 JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES LAW 99, 2007 (co-authored).
• The Supreme Court "Sells" Charles Singleton Short: Why the Court Should Have Granted Certiorari to Singleton v. Norris After Reversing United States v. Sell, 21 GA. ST. U. L. REV. 541 (2004) (investigating forced antipsychotic medication to render inmates competent for execution, cited in Thompson v. Bell, 2006 WL 1195892, *32 (E.D. Tenn. May 4, 2006) (No. 1:04-CV-117)). 
• Child Endangerment Legislation, 21 GA. ST. U. L. REV. 45 (2004) (legislative review of Child Endangerment Bill in 2004 Georgia General Assembly).

Public Service

• President, Stonewall Bar Association, 2009 
• Barrister, Bleckley Inn of Court, 2008-2010 
• Vice President, Stonewall Bar Association, 2008
• Board of Governors, Board of Directors, Red Clay Democrats, 2005-Present
• Pupil, Bleckley Inn of Court, Georgia State University College of Law, 2004-2005

Work Experience 

• Associate, Troutman Sanders LLP, 2007-present
• Associate, Powell Goldstein LLP, 2005-2007
• Extern/intern, the Honorable Justice Robert Benham, Georgia Supreme Court, 2004

Anna Green Cross

Anna Green Cross is a senior Assistant District Attorney in the Cobb County District Attorney's Office, specializing in appellate litigation. Ms. Green Cross spent almost 10 years in criminal litigation as a Chief Senior Assistant District Attorney in the Fulton County Office of the District Attorney, supervising that county's Capital Litigation Unit and handling complex appeals, before joining the Cobb County District Attorney's Office. She has tried 6 death penalty cases to verdict in the trial court, and orally argued in the Supreme Court of Georgia over 30 times.

In 2007, she was inducted into the National District Attorney's Association's "Home Run Hitters" Club for Outstanding Achievement in the case of State of Georgia v. James Vincent Sullivan. In 2006, she received the "Commitment to Justice" award from the Criminal Law Committee of the State Bar of Georgia for dedication to justice in the field of criminal prosecution.

Ms. Green Cross received her B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1994 and her J.D. from Emory University College of Law in 1998.

Richard H. Deane

Rick Deane is a partner with the Jones Day law firm and co-chairs the firm's corporate criminal investigations practice. Rick's experience includes more than 14 years as an assistant United States attorney, including serving as chief of the criminal division.

In 1994, Rick was appointed to the position of United States magistrate judge. In 1998, President Clinton appointed Rick as United States attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. During this time, Attorney General Janet Reno appointed Rick to serve on the attorney general's advisory committee.

In 2001, Rick was named by Time Magazine to the "Time 100 List of Innovators" for his creativity and determination in the application of the RICO statute to fight local crime involving child prostitution.

Rick received B.A. and J.D. degrees from The University of Georgia and an LL.M. from the University of Michigan. Rick is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is on the board of the Truancy Intervention Project, the High Museum of Art, and the BASICS Program and is an adjunct law professor at Georgia State University.

Kean J. DeCarlo

Kean J. DeCarlo is a partner in the Needle & Rosenberg Intellectual Property Practice of Ballard Spahr. He serves as team leader for the mechanical and medical technology practice team in the Patent Group and is a member of the Trademark and Copyright Group. He is engaged exclusively in patent, copyright and trademark matters.

A registered patent attorney, Mr. DeCarlo has extensive experience in domestic and international patent prosecution, patent counseling, portfolio and competitor analysis, licensing, and commercial transactional matters for clients ranging from start-up companies to international conglomerates.

Mr. DeCarlo previously worked as a domestic and international commercial pilot for Delta Air Lines and as a fighter pilot with the United States Air Force.

Mr. DeCarlo is an adjunct professor of Intellectual Property Law at Georgia State University College of Law. He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and its Technology Law Section Executive Committee, the Copyright Society of the U.S., the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the Southeast Medical Device Association.

Mr. DeCarlo is a graduate of Clemson University (B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, magna cum laude, 1982), Golden Gate University (M.B.A., with honors, 1990) and Georgia State University College of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 1997).

Alfred Drake Dixon

Al Dixon is currently a practicing attorney in the Atlanta area specializing in criminal law. He is also a Municipal Court Judge for the City of College Park Georgia.

He retired from the Atlanta Judicial circuit after 27 years where he last served as the Deputy District Attorney over the trial division and the major felony/homicide unit. He has personally tried over 250 jury trials, including four death penalty cases. Prior to becoming a prosecutor he was a police officer and criminal investigator while attending college and law school.

George E. Duncan

George E. Duncan, Jr., has maintained an active litigation practice in Atlanta for thirty-five years. He has specialized in representing plaintiffs and defendants in casualty and professional liability litigation, including matters involving products liability, premises liability, trucking and insurance matters. Mr. Duncan graduated from Emory College and Emory University Law School and is a member of the firm of Duncan & Adair, P.C.

Mr. Duncan is past President of the Georgia Defense Lawyers Association. He is past Chairman of the GDLA Trial Academy and has been an instructor at the Academy for twenty years. He is past State Representative to the Defense Research Institute. He has lectured frequently on subjects of trial practice, insurance coverage and professionalism.

Monica Emmons Ewing

Monica Ewing is a pro hac Judge for the State Court of Fulton County, and an Adjunct Professor for both the Georgia State University College of Law and School of Music. She has maintained a private law practice for the past sixteen years and specializes in multi-media law. As one of the top entertainment attorneys, prominent magazines such as People, Billboard and Newsweek have called on her for comments.

Monica received her B. A. degree from Georgia State University and her J. D. from Emory University School of Law. She is currently working on a Doctorate in Natural Health at Clayton College of Natural Health.

Richard W Hendrix

Richard Hendrix is a partner in the Atlanta firm of Finch McCranie, LLP. He graduated Davidson College, cum laude, 1974; Emory Law School, 1977.

Mr. Hendrix served as an Assistant District Attorney for the State of Georgia, Assistant Public Defender in South Carolina between 1977 and 1979, and as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta from 1980 - 1985. While with the United States Attorney's Office in Atlanta, Mr. Hendrix specialized in white collar prosecutions. Mr. Hendrix served as Associate Independent Counsel in the investigation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1992-1993.

Mr. Hendrix concentrates his civil practice in the representation of victims of professional, personal, and corporate negligence. The current emphasis of his practice is wrongful death, whistleblower claims and serious personal injury litigation.

In addition to his civil practice, Mr. Hendrix represents and defends businesspersons accused of or under investigation for alleged violations of federal law. As a part of his white collar defense practice, Mr. Hendrix has represented numerous corporate and professional executives in federal courts throughout the United States.

Randall L. Hughes

G. Scott Hulsey

G. Scott Hulsey is an Assistant United States Attorney with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia, where he serves as Chief of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and Narcotics Unit.

He recently returned from an 8-month detail to Bosnia & Herzegovina, where he served as an intermittent legal adviser, providing technical advice to local prosecutors handling complex prosecutions, including primarily terrorism cases.

Mr. Hulsey has served as a prosecutor for more than a decade. While working as a federal prosecutor, he has handled numerous complex prosecutions, including primarily Title III wire cases focused on the dismantling of Mexican cartels operating in the Atlanta area.

Most recently he served as the lead prosecutor in Atlanta in connection with the district's role in the La Familia "take-down," as part of which more than 1,200 persons were arrested nationwide during the course of a 2-year SOD coordinated investigation. Before that, Mr. Hulsey worked for 6 years as a state prosecutor, handling a variety of prosecutions, ranging from murder to drug cases.

Mr. Hulsey began his career working as an employment lawyer at the Washington, D.C. office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld, LLP.  Mr. Hulsey graduated in 1994 near the top of his class from the Georgetown University Law Center.

He received his undergraduate degree from Duke University in 1991, majoring in Political Science.

Jimmy Hurt

Jimmy was born in Macon, Georgia on October 15, 1966 and grew up in the small South Georgia community of Cordele. Upon graduation in 1984 from Crisp County High School, moved to the Atlanta area and attended Mercer University-Atlanta Campus. He continued his education at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) where he studied Chemistry, and in his sophomore year, Jimmy transferred to the University of Georgia where he achieved his Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology in 1989.

After graduation from UGA, Jimmy began a career in the poultry industry and held various managerial positions in sales, quality assurance and processing from 1990 until resigning his position as Quality Assurance Manager with ConAgra Poultry in Athens in 2000.

Jimmy attended Georgia State University College of Law, where he became a member of the Moot Court Board, the President of the Student Trial Lawyers Association, and the organizer and founding President of the Oglethorpe Legal Society. Jimmy graduated with honors (cum laude) in 2003. Jimmy continued the family “calling” to the law by becoming the 21st lawyer in his family – a tradition that began with his great grandfather, Warren R. Mixon of Ocilla, Georgia in 1922.

Jimmy was sworn in as a member of the Georgia Bar in November, 2003 and began practice with Silver & Archibald, LLP in Athens, Georgia, focusing on social security disability, claimants’ workers compensation, private insurance long term disability, and personal injury.

He joined the law firm of Winburn, Lewis & Stolz, LLP in August, 2004 and has focused his practice in the areas of Consumer Protection, ERISA/Long-Term Disability, Products Liability, and Personal Injury.

Jimmy is a member of the Western Circuit Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia, the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the National Association of Consumer Advocates, the Graduate Leadership Council of Georgia State University College of Law, a current board member of the General Practice and Trial Section of the State Bar of Georgia, and and a former Alumni Chancellor and current executive committee member of the Oglethorpe Legal Society. He is licensed to practice in all courts of Georgia including the Georgia Court of Appeals, the Georgia Supreme Court, and the United States District Courts for both the Middle District of Georgia and Northern District of Georgia. He has also appeared specially in the United States District Courts for the Southern District of Georgia and for the Middle District of Alabama (pro hac vice).

Nicole G. Iannarone

Nicole Iannarone represents plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial litigation, appellate litigation and class actions. Nicole's practice includes a wide range of business litigation and appeals, including fraud, Racketeered Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO), contract and negligence claims. She also has significant experience in retaining and overturning default judgments for her clients.

Nicole has been recognized multiple times as a "Rising Star" by Law and Politics and Atlanta Magazine. In addition to general business litigation, Nicole's practice focuses on professional liability cases concerning attorneys and accountants. She has represented companies as well as high net worth individuals and families in litigation involving malpractice claims against major national accounting firms. She is often called upon to counsel attorneys and law firms in all aspects of professional liability matters, including disciplinary inquiries, investigatory subpoenas, ethics questions, drafting of law firm agreements and defending against negligence claims.

Complementing her professional liablity work at the firm, Nicole serves as the vicechair of the Atlanta Bar Association's Reputation and Public Trust Committee, as a member of the State Bar of Georgia's Disciplinary Rules and Procedures Committee and previously co-chaired the Young Lawyers Division Ethics and Professionalism Committee. These experiences add substantial strength to her professional liability practice.

Nicole is active in the bar and the community and has been recognized for this service. She has received the Kerry Harike Joedecke Atlanta Young Lawyer of the Year Award and the Brenau Women's College Young Alumnae Award. She graduated with high honors in liberal studies from Brenau Women's College, and earned her J.D. from Yale Law School.

Hon. Patricia A. Killingsworth

Patricia Killingsworth served as a judge at the Georgia State Board of Workers' Compensation from 1987-1996, During her tenure as Chief Judge and Trial Division Director she initiated the alternative dispute resolution program at the Board, where she served as a mediator in addition to her judicial and administrative duties. In addition to her initial ADR training in 1993 with Dispute Management of Orlando, she received advanced mediation certification at the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law in 1999.

Judge Killingsworth has been in private mediation practice for over 12 years, and has expanded her practice to include ADA and employment disputes in addition to workers' compensation and personal injury litigation, with particular emphasis on catastrophic injury claims. She has now mediated well over 2500 cases, and maintains a resolution rate of better than 95%.

Judge Killingsworth has been active in the ADR community in Georgia throughout her career, and has written numerous articles and spoken at many seminars throughout the State regarding both workers' compensation and alternative dispute resolution issues. She continues to teach workers' compensation law at Georgia State University College of Law, where she has been an adjunct professor since 1989.

Education:

B.A. - Vanderbilt University (1973)
J.D. - University of Georgia College of Law (1979)
Mediation Training - Dispute Management of Orlando, Florida (1993)
Advanced Mediation Training - Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University School of Law (1999)

Carl Lietz

Carl Lietz is a partner with the Atlanta law firm of Kish & Lietz, P.C., where he devotes his practice to defending individuals facing federal criminal charges. After graduating from Vermont Law School in 1995, Carl clerked for the Honorable Sharon Lovelace Blackburn, Chief United States District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, and the Honorable Orinda D. Evans, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia.

Before forming Kish & Lietz, Carl worked as a trial attorney at the Federal Defender Office in Atlanta. During his five year tenure with that office, Carl tried a significant number of federal jury trials, litigated hundreds of evidentiary and sentencing hearings, and argued cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Since forming Kish and Lietz, Carl has continued to devote his career to the defense of individuals facing federal charges. Carl enjoys working with and learning from other lawyers, and he is a frequent lecturer at both national and regional seminars pertaining to federal criminal law.

Robert P. Marcovitch

Education

• J.D., Harvard Law School, 1987, Magna Cum Laude
• B.A., Columbia University, 1984, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Barbara Marschalk

Barbara A. Marschalk is a partner with the law firm of Drew, Eckl & Farnham where her practice is devoted to a wide range of defending corporations and individuals in civil litigation. Her practice areas include medical malpractice defense, wrongful death litigation, nursing home litigation, personal injury defense, premises liability defense and defense of other general litigation and products liability matters for nationally recognized insurers and their insureds. Ms. Marschalk received her B.A. degree, cum laude, from the University of South Carolina in 1995. She received her J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law in 1998.

Ms. Marschalk has given presentations for local and national organizations on a variety of topics, including defense of nursing home litigation; informed consent; and risk management. She is a Committee Chair for the Young Lawyers Division of the Georgia State Bar and has been active as a coach for Georgia State University College of Law's mock trial program. In 2006, Ms. Marschalk was selected as a Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star by Atlanta Magazine.

She is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, American Bar Association, Defense Research Institute, Georgia Defense Lawyers Association and Lawyers Club of Atlanta.

Stevan Miller

Josh Moore

Bruce H. Morris

Mr. Morris was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1974. He received his B.A from the University of North Carolina in 1971 and his J.D. from Emory University in 1974. He was a member of the Editorial Board for the Emory Law Journal from 1972-1974.

Mr. Morris has been an adjunct Professor teaching Advanced Criminal Litigation at Georgia State University College of Law since 1991. He was a member of the Board of Directors for the Federal Defender Program from 1985-1989 and is a member of the Atlanta and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Georgia, Criminal Law Committee, 1976—); Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Georgia Trial Lawyers Association; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Lawyers Club of Atlanta.

Mr. Kramer's practice areas are criminal defense litigation, complex civil litigation, felonies, drug crimes and grand jury practice.

John Moss

John A. Moss is a partner with the firm of Matthews, Steel & Moss, L.L.P., where his practice is devoted entirely to representing Plaintiffs injured in serious accidents. His practice areas include Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA), trucking, and premises liability. He has a regional practice in both state and federal courts, and he has handled complex civil cases throughout the United States.

Mr. Moss attended Furman University on an Army R.O.T.C. Scholarship and graduated in 1988 with a B.A. in history. He received his J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law in 1991. While in private practice, he also served in the Georgia Army National Guard as a Judge Advocate General (JAG).

Keith A. Pittman

Education
University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, GA (J.D. 1993); Cum Laude; Order of the Coif.

Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA (M.Ed. 1983).

Emory University, Atlanta, GA (B.A. 1979).

Affiliations
Mr. Pittman is a Member of the State Bar of Georgia and the Bars of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia. He has practiced in more than twenty states and has also represented clients in disputes in four countries. Mr. Pittman previously taught Economic Torts as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Georgia School of Law.

William Marion Poole

Bill Poole is a partner and heads the Atlanta office International Practice. He was one of the first lawyers in Atlanta to focus his practice exclusively on transnational business and investment matters and is recognized nationally and internationally for his significant experience and expertise in transnational business transactions. Since 1973, he has practiced in Atlanta as a corporate and tax lawyer, specializing in representing foreign companies and individuals in all aspects of establishing or acquiring businesses and properties in the United States and representing U.S. businesses with respect to exporting products and services and transacting business outside the United States.

During his career, he has represented companies and individuals from more than 40 countries doing business in the United States and U.S. companies and individuals doing business in more than 30 countries outside of the United States. Mr. Poole has counseled and advised his clients regarding all aspects of general corporate and commercial business, including acquisitions and mergers, and many types of sales, distribution, franchising, licensing and joint venture relationships. Mr. Poole often assists clients with international tax planning issues, including planning relating to bi-lateral tax conventions, assisting in structuring profitable transnational business transactions, minimizing total global worldwide tax liability, yet complying with all applicable tax laws. He also provides immigration services, including non-immigrant and permanent resident petitions. Mr. Poole has represented many software developers and hardware manufacturers and has assisted many technologically advanced companies in protecting and licensing their proprietary intellectual property rights including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and technical know-how, both domestically and internationally.

Mr. Poole graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., in 1966 with a Bachelor of Science in General Engineering. He served in the Army as an Airborne Ranger Infantry platoon leader and company commander in Berlin, Germany, and as a District Advisor in the Republic of South Viet Nam. Mr. Poole was a cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, where he was a Vassar Wooley scholar, editor-in-chief of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, oralist for the Jessup International moot court team and won the law school appellate moot court argument. He graduated from the Executive MBA program of Georgia State University in 1988.

Mr. Poole has taught transnational tax planning as an adjunct professor at the University of Georgia School of Law and Emory University School of Law, and he is currently an adjunct professor at Georgia State University Law School, teaching international business transactions law. Mr. Poole is very active in the Atlanta international business community, notably as a founder and current member of the Board of Directors and President of the World Trade Center of Atlanta. Mr. Poole was selected as a member of the first class of the Society of International Business Fellows and was appointed by the United States Secretary of Commerce as a member of the Atlanta District Export Council, which he chaired for many years. Mr. Poole is an active participant in the American, Atlanta, and Georgia Bar Associations, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Board of Advisors and Global Commerce Council of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and many of the Bilateral Chambers of Commerce.

Jason N. Poulos

Jason Poulos is a Chief In-house Litigation counsel at Georgia-Pacific LLC, where he has practiced since 2001. His primary focus is on domestic and international commercial disputes, in addition to legal oversight of GP's global anticorruption compliance program. Jason is a member of the Atlanta Bar Association (where he serves on the board of the Corporate Counsel Section), the Association of Corporate Counsel, and the Lawyers' Club of Atlanta. Jason is a Master in the Bleckley Inn of Court. Jason also performs pro bono work with the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers' Foundation's One Child, One Lawyer program.

Prior to GP, Jason was an associate attorney at Alston & Bird. During his tenure at Alston, Jason's practice focused on commercial, securities, and ERISA fiduciary litigation. Jason graduated from Georgia State University College of Law in 1997. During law school, Jason was an officer of the Moot Court Board and a competitor with the Student Trial Lawyers' Association. In 1997, Jason's STLA mock trial team won the Southeastern regional tournament. Jason received a degree in accounting from GSU in 1992.

Donald Franklin Samuel

Donald F. Samuel graduated from Oberlin College in 1975 and the University of Georgia School of Law in 1980 (cum laude), where he was an editor of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law. He served as law clerk to United States District Court Judge Harold L. Murphy (N.D.Ga.) following his graduation from law school and then joined what is now known as GARLAND, SAMUEL & LOEB, P.C. He is past-President of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (GACDL) and a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). In 1999, he was elected to membership in the American Board of Criminal Lawyers. In 2000, he was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers.

D. Brian Shortell

D. Brian Shortell is an associate in the Intellectual Property Department and a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation Group and Life Sciences/Technology Group. He is a member of the chemical, pharmaceutical, and medical device practice teams, and leads the nanotechnology practice team, in the Patents Group. He concentrates on patent prosecution, client counseling and opinion work, and intellectual property and technology litigation.

Dr. Shortell is a registered patent attorney. His technical experience includes industrial chemical research and postdoctoral chemical research, which focused on organic synthesis, polymer synthesis and characterization, molecular electronics, nanotechnology, and the synthesis and characterization of novel chiral atropisomers. His experience also includes academic grant writing and teaching chemistry at the undergraduate level.

Richard Storrs

Richard Storrs specializes in representing clients involved in the construction and real estate industry. Storrs represents owners, general contractors, subcontractors, design professionals, and other parties in construction law issues, and in disputes including payment, defective work, and extra and changed work. Storrs has significant experience at handling complex business litigation, including employment, trade secret, and non-compete matters. Mr. Storrs also represents parties in real estate disputes, including commercial landlord tenant litigation. Mr. Storrs acts as an arbitrator and mediator and has served as a long time member of the Construction Industry Panel of the American Bar Association.

In addition to his law practice, Mr. Storrs has enjoyed teaching at GSU and in the Building Construction Program of the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech. Mr. Storrs serves as an Assistant Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 74 in Atlanta, and is an avid youth sports coach.

Bill Timm

Christopher W. Timmons

Chris Timmons is an Assistant District Attorney in Cobb County. He has tried 47 jury trials on charges ranging from speeding to murder. He has also argued before the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court. Mr. Timmons teaches prosecutors across the state and supervises the Cobb D.A.’s Office trial internship program.

Prior to becoming a prosecutor, Mr. Timmons was an associate at King & Spalding in Atlanta and Taft, Stettinius & Hollister in Cincinnati. As a civil litigator, Mr. Timmons handled business litigation, securities, and products liability cases from the filing of complaints through appeals.

Mr. Timmons received his B.A. in Economics from Miami University in 1993 and his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1996.

Margaret Hughes Vath

Jennifer Victor

Jennifer Boyens Victor is the owner of The Victor Firm LLC. She also serves as a co-Executive Director of the Chief Litigation Counsel Association. Additionally, Ms. Victor serves as the Program Director of a corporation's employment dispute resolution program on an outsourced basis. She is also an adjunct professor at both The Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University's School of Law and Kennesaw State University's Master of Science in Conflict Management program. Ms. Victor is a member of the State Bar of Georgia.

Practice Areas
Ms. Victor specializes in working with corporations and organizations in the areas of ADR program design, early case assessment, and other areas of conflict management. Ms. Victor has extensive experience in designing and implementing conflict management programs, and she regularly provides consulting and training services in the areas of conflict prevention and management (including, but not limited to, facilitation, mediation, early case assessment, and arbitration). Ms. Victor is also a registered mediator with the Georgia Supreme Court's Office of Dispute Resolution, as well as a trained and experienced facilitator and ombudsperson. She is also a General Electric-certified Six Sigma Green Belt.

Education
Ms. Victor received a B.A. in History with Honors from Agnes Scott College, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She received a J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law.

Professional Experience
Prior to forming The Victor Firm LLC, Ms. Victor was a partner with Paquin Victor LLP, a specialty firm focused on corporate and organizational conflict and litigation management; an ADR Practice Leader for Ernst & Young's Legal Management Services group; and Deputy Director of the Georgia Supreme Court's Office of Dispute Resolution, where her experience included developing and implementing ADR programs, as well as developing policy for statewide ADR, including the Ethical Standards for Neutrals in Georgia. Ms. Victor also regularly provided consulting and training to judges and lawyers in the areas of conflict prevention and management, early neutral evaluation, mediation, arbitration, and other forms of ADR.

Illustrative Background
Ms. Victor has served as project manager and designed, developed and implemented all aspects of employment dispute resolution programs for a number of Fortune 100 companies. Her work has included conducting needs assessments, drafting program documentation and communication materials, developing and conducting training related to program implementation, and consulting regarding tracking protocols for the programs. These programs contained ADR mechanisms such as open door, facilitation, peer review, mediation, and arbitration. Program objectives included reducing the cost, delay, and unpredictability of conflict and litigation, while maintaining confidentiality between the parties and preserving relationships.

Ms. Victor has also developed early case assessment programs for Fortune 50 companies and government agencies, including those programs with innovative features such as settlement counsel and convening, and has experience serving as assessment and resolution/settlement counsel for a number of large companies. Ms. Victor has also designed comprehensive organizational ADR and conflict management training programs, including the preparation of all training materials and conducting the training for program participants. Areas of training expertise include ADR processes, program design, negotiation, communication, problem-solving, and mediation advocacy.

Ms. Victor is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education and other seminars on topics related to conflict management, alternative dispute resolution, early case assessment, and litigation management. She has conducted presentations for the American Bar Association, the Association of Corporate Counsel - America, the Association of Corporate Counsel - Alabama, the State Bar of Georgia, the Atlanta Bar Association, the State Long Term Care Ombuds Program, the Association for Conflict Resolution, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, and many other organizations and corporations. Ms. Victor is an Editor of the American Bar Association Litigation Section's Conflict Management newsletter. She was Editor of the Georgia Supreme Court Office of Dispute Resolution publication Symposium, and contributed significantly to the book ADR Practice & Procedure in Georgia (2nd Edition).

Publications
General Electric's Integrated Conflict Management System: The Prevention, Early Identification and Early Resolution of Disputes, Chief Legal Officer (April 2002) (and reprinted in the American Bar Association's Corporate Counsel newsletter (Fall 2003) and Conflict Management newsletter (Summer 2004).

Proactive Lawyering Equals Good Business: How Innovative Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management Programs are Changing the Face of the Corporate Legal Department, Corporate Legal Times (September 2001).

Corporate Conflict Management Programs: Multidisciplinary Aspects of Program Design and Implementation, Corporate Counsel (October 2000).

Mediation Agreements: They're Doubtful Without a Writing, Alternatives (CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution) (November 1998).

Early Case Assessment Programs: A Tool for the Well-Managed Litigation Practice, Inside Litigation (August 1998).

Mediation Settlement Agreements: Legal, Ethical, and Practical Issues, Alternatives (CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution) (July/August 1998).

Finding the Cure for Commercial Conflict: Designing and Implementing Commercial ADR Programs, ADR Report (June 1998).

Bar Admissions, Memberships, and Other Activities
Ms. Victor is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the Georgia Supreme Court, the Georgia Court of Appeals, and all courts in the State of Georgia. Ms. Victor is active with the ADR Sections of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia, and the Atlanta Bar Association. She is also a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, The Ombudsman Association, the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, and other organizations. She serves as co-chairperson of the Corporate ADR Committee of the ABA's Dispute Resolution Section.

Amy K. Waggoner

Amy holds an AV-preeminent rating and is certified in the practice of collaborative law. She teaches Collaborative Divorce at Georgia State University College of Law and is a founding member of the Atlanta Collaborative Divorce Alliance.

She regularly lectures on collaborative practice at continuing education events around the country. Amy also serves as a guardian ad litem.

Gerry Weber

Larry David Wolfe

David Wolfe attended the University of Georgia where he graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. In 1979 he graduated from John Marshall Law School with a J.D. and began his practice of law with the firm of Hudson & Montgomery in Athens, Georgia. On April Fools' Day, 1982, he opened his own office in Atlanta and has continued that practice here to date.

David Wolfe specializes in criminal defense work and he has tried cases throughout the country in various state and federal courts. He has handled many high-profile cases in Georgia of national interest, including his challenge to Georgia's hate crime statute, which was struck down by the Georgia Supreme Court as unconstitutional. He is a founding member of the Georgia Innocence Project and represented Clarence Harrison, the first inmate exonerated and released after 18 years imprisonment by the Project based upon DNA evidence. He is a life member of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and a member of the board of directors of that organization.