Tracey Barbaree

Tracey Barbaree is a partner at Ashe, Rafuse & Hill LLP in Atlanta. Her practice focuses on employment law, litigation, and civil rights matters. Tracey has represented employers and individuals in all aspects of employment and civil rights litigation, including many class actions under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, more recently, defending collective action claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Tracey received her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University in 1986 and her J.D. degree, with honors, from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1990. She 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.

Sharon R. Barnes

Sharon Chester Barnes is managing attorney, GA Staff Counsel Office, for The Infinity Insurance Companies, a provider of personal, commercial and classic auto insurance. Sharon obtained her BA degree, magna cum laude, from Clark College (1971), in Atlanta, and a MA Ed. from Washington University (1978) in St. Louis, MO. After teaching high school English for 10 years, Sharon attended Emory University School of Law where she was selected as a Robert W. Woodruff Fellow.

Upon graduating Emory, in 1984, she started her practice in insurance defense litigation and continues to practice insurance defense litigation to this day. She has handled over 100 jury trials, both for the defense as well as plaintiff personal injury cases. Her practice areas range from commercial litigation, trucking and auto, false arrest & false imprisonment and premises liability to coverage disputes. Sharon recently completed 6 years service on the State Bar of GA’s Peer Review Panel of the Lawyer’s Disciplinary Committee, where she was Chair from 2005-2006.

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.

Anna Green Cross

Anna Green Cross is a sole practitioner specializing in a wide range of criminal trial and 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. 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.

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.

Shawn Ellen LaGrua

Shawn LaGrua earned her law degree from Georgia State in 1987 and a Bachelors from the University of Georgia in 1984. She started her career as an assistant district attorney in Dekalb County and moved to the Fulton County DA’s Office where she became Chief Senior Assistant District Attorney. After working for the Tallapoosa DA’s Office and again for Dekalb’s, she was appointed in 2004 as Solicitor General for DeKalb County and was named Georgia’s Solicitor General of the Year in 2006.

Shawn LaGrua has extensive trial experience, including as lead counsel death penalty cases. She currently is General Counsel for the Georgia Office of the Secretary of State.

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.

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

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).

Michael Eric Ross

Mickey Ross is a shareholder and senior litigator with Greenberg Traurig, which he joined in January 2008 after nearly 34 years at King & Spalding. Mr. Ross has a broad range of experience in federal and state trial and appellate courts across the country, as well as in arbitrations, including a number of class (opt out) and collective (opt in) actions. He has successfully represented both individuals and companies in a wide variety of cases, including in all aspects of employment law, contract and partnership disputes, business torts, antitrust, and healthcare. Mr. Ross speaks frequently on these topics at continuing legal education programs and has published more than twenty articles, including in the Georgia Law Review, the Emory Law Journal, the Mercer Law Review, and the Georgia Bar Journal.

Mr. Ross was the valedictorian of his graduating class at the University of Florida. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was invited to join the Harvard Law Review.

Christopher W. Timmons

Chris Timmons is an Assistant District Attorney in Cobb County. He has tried 42 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.

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.