- Vice chair, Drug and Medical Device Seminar Planning Committee, Defense Research Institute
- Defense Research Institute Steering Committee
- International Association of Defense Counsel
- Trial Attorneys of America
- Experience serving as a certified foster parent
- Coach for youth basketball, baseball, flag football, and soccer
Education
- The University of Alabama, J.D., magna cum laude, 2007
- The University of Alabama, B.S., summa cum laude, 2004
Bar Admissions
- Georgia
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Georgia
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia
- Supreme Court of Georgia
Clerkships
- Hon. L. Scott Coogler, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama, 2007-2008
- Speaker, 2025 DRI Drug and Medical Device Seminar, May 9, 2025.
- Speaker, “Innovative Tactics for Persuading Juries that Pharma and Med Device Companies are Not Bad Actors,” American Conference Institute’s (ACI) 28th Annual Conference on Drug & Medical Device Litigation, December 5, 2023.
- Speaker, “Dialogue with Heads of Litigation,” 2023 DRI Drug and Medical Device Seminar, May 5, 2023.
- Podcast, “AI in the Operating Room: Liability Issues for Device Makers,” The Good Bot: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, and the Law, August 20, 2024.
- Co-author, “AI in the Operating Room: Liability Issues for Device Makers,” Law360, April 16, 2024.
- Author, “Science Basics for the Drug and Medical Device Lawyer, Urogynecology Chapter,” DRI hardcopy resource, 2020.
- Author, “Does Hatch-Waxman Need Modification? Regulatory and Legislative Developments Involving FDA’s Proposed Rule on Generic Drug Labeling,” presented at Pharma Law Conference, New York, February 5, 2015.
- Author, “Understanding the Ambiguities in Rule 26’s Expert Disclosure Requirements for Treating Physicians and Company Witnesses,” Rx for the Defense, August 27, 2013.
- Mentioned, “Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs,” The AmLaw Litigation Daily, July 26, 2024
- Mentioned, “Meghan Kelly Does It Again: Defense Verdict in Mesh Suit Is 2nd for Orrick This Year,” New Jersey Law Journal, May 3, 2023.
- Mentioned, “NJ Jury Sides With J&J Unit In Pelvic Mesh Injury Suit,” Law360, May 2, 2023.
- Mentioned, “J&J And Ethicon Score Pelvic Mesh Trial Win In Fla.,” Law360, March 16, 2023.
- Featured, “Rising Star: Troutman Pepper’s Eric Rumanek,” Law360, June 22, 2021.