- Appellate + Supreme Court
- Business Litigation
- Contaminated Sites + Waste Management
- Ecosystem Markets
- Environmental + Natural Resources
- Environmental Due Diligence
- Environmental Justice
- Environmental Litigation + Enforcement Defense
- Financial Services
- Government Contracts
- Litigation + Trial
- Natural Resources
- PFAS + Emerging Contaminants
- Product Liability
- Real Estate Litigation
- Water Quality + Water Resources
- Fellow, Lawyers Foundation of Georgia
- Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America, The Trial Lawyer Honorary Society
- Member, Diversity Law Institute
- Member, The Trial Law Institute
- Master, Joseph Henry Lumpkin American Inn of Court
- Immediate past chairman, Associate Members, Southern States Energy Board
- Board of director, Warrior 2 Citizen, Veterans Support Group
- Old War Horse Lawyers Club of Atlanta
- Coach, High School Mock Trial Competitions, 1991-2000
- State Law Department:
Assistant attorney general, 1987-1996
Senior assistant attorney general, 1995-1996
Practice group leader, Opinions Practice Group
Practice group leader, Consumer Interests
Education
- University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1987
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., 1984
Bar Admissions
- Georgia
Court Admissions
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama
- U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
- U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Georgia
- Supreme Court of Georgia
- Court of Appeals of Georgia
- Georgia Trial Courts
- Speaker, “Energy Contracting and the Hidden Power of the Force Majeure Clause,” Energy Law Insights, February 7, 2024.
- Speaker, “Navigating Power Allocation and Customer Choice in a Regulated Landscape,” Energy Law Insights, January 24, 2024.
- Co-author, “Flint Water Crisis Ruling May Signal Broader EPA Liability,” Law360, October 26, 2020.
- Co-author, “Despite New Attacks, Citizen Suits Are Constitutional,” Law360, August 28, 2020.
- “Environmental Class Actions After Dukes: Is ‘Rigorous’ Analysis the New Rule of Law?,” Bloomberg BNA Class Action Litigation Report, 2012.
- Author and Co-author, “Appellate Practice and Procedure in the Eleventh Circuit,” Mercer Law Review, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2001.
- Quoted, “Do ‘Act of God’ Clauses Still Work in the Era of Climate Change?,” Corporate Knights, January 14, 2025.