Jason N. Poulos (B.S. '92, J.D. '97)

Jason Poulos (B.S. ’92, J.D. ’97) is an Associate General Counsel at Cox Enterprises, Inc. and Chief Counsel for Manheim Auctions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cox, where he focuses his practice on business law, regulatory law, commercial compliance and dispute resolution. Previously, Poulos was Of Counsel at the law firm Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, where, in addition to compliance and investigations, he also focused on commercial litigation. Prior to that, he spent over 10 years in-house at Georgia-Pacific, where he focused his efforts in global anti-corruption law and compliance, internal investigations, and domestic and international commercial disputes. He spent the first five years of his legal career at Alston & Bird LLC, where his practice comprised commercial, securities, ERISA fiduciary litigation and global investigations.

Poulos is a Master in the Bleckley Inn of Court and previously was a member of both the Lawyers Club of Atlanta and the Atlanta Bar Association, where he served on the board of the Corporate Counsel Section for 5 years and performed pro bono work with the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation’s One Child, One Lawyer program.

He graduated from Georgia State University College of Law in 1997. During law school, he was an officer of the Moot Court Board and a competitor with the Student Trial Lawyers’ Association, whose mock trial team won the Southeastern regional tournament and competed in the national tournament in 1997.

Poulos attended both the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University as an undergraduate, and he received his undergraduate degree in accounting in 1992. While attending college, he won a U.S. Congressional scholarship to Germany and spent over a year living, studying and working there. He is proficient in German and has been involved in myriad legal and compliance issues in the German-speaking countries during his career.

Poulos taught in the Georgia State Law Lawyering Advocacy program from 2010-2017 and has been teaching Corporate Compliance (a course of his own design) since 2017.