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ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHY
- Woodrow Wilson College of Law, J.D., Atlanta, Georgia, December
1985
- Judge, Magistrate Court, Fulton County, Georgia
- US Supreme Court
- US Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
- US District Courts for Northern and Middle District of Georgia
- Georgia Supreme Court
- Georgia Court of Appeals
- Georgia State and Superior Courts
- American Bar Association
- State Bar of Georgia
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America
- Georgia Trial Lawyers Associa tion
- National Health Lawyers Association
- Lawyer Pilots Bar Association
- Urology Lawyers Council
- American Arbitration Association, Panel of Arbitrators
- Charter Chairman, Penile Implant Litigation Group, ATLA
- Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution, Registration # 3525
CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION
- Bridge the Cap Seminar, State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia,
1986
- Trial, Start to Finish, State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia,
1986
- Effective Discovery in Georgia, State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia,
1987
- Representing Clients before Georgia's Examining Board, State Bar
of
Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, 1989
- Profoundly Brain-injured Infants, ATLA, Washington, D.C., June 1990
- Attorney Professionalism, Atlanta, Georgia, December 1990
- Trial Practice and Professionalism, Decatur/DeKalb Bar Association,
Decatur, Georgia, February 1991
- Medical Malpractice Seminar, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association,
Atlanta, Georgia, August 1991
- Professionalism and Ethics Seminar, Institute of Continuing Legal
Education, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1991
- Arbitrator Panel, American Arbitration Association, Atlanta, Georgia,
October, November, December 1991
- Jury Selection, Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia,
Atlanta, Georgia, September 1992
- Professionalism, Ethics and Malpractice Avoidance, Atlanta, Georgia,
November 1992
- Basics of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Atlanta, Georgia, December
1993
- Penile Implant Litigation Group Seminar, Phoenix, Arizona, January
1994
- Breast Implant Seminar, Chicago, Illinois, March 1994
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Annual Meeting, Chicago,
July 1994
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Annual Meeting, New York,
July, 1995
- Product Liability Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, February 1996
- Medical Malpractice, Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Atlanta,
Georgia, April, 1996
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Annual Meeting, Boston,
July, 1996
- New Laws Seminar, Atlanta, Georgia, June 1997
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Annual Meeting, San Diego,
July, 1997
- Georgia Paralegal Seminar, Speaker, Atlanta, Georgia, September,
1999
- Medical Malpractice Seminar, GTLA, Atlanta, Georgia, September,
2000
- Cross Examination of Experts, Savannah, Ga., January, 2001
- Jury Selection and Persuasion, Webcast, October, 2001
- General Practice and Trial Selection, Wild Dunes, South Carolina,March
2002,
- Russell Thrower Symposium, Tort Reform, Emory School of Law, Feb.,
2004
- Effective Legal Negotiation and Settlement, ICLE. Atlanta, Ga, October 2004
- New Rules Regarding Admissibility of Expert Testimony in Georgia, ICLE, Atlanta, May 2005
- Henning Mediation, Neutral Training, (General CIvil and Observation Practicum) May, 2006
- ADR Institute and 2006 Neutrals Conference, October, 2006
MEETINGS and JUDICIAL EDUCATION
- Council of Magistrate Judges, Quarterly meeting, Forsyth, Georgia, July 2007
- Council of Magistrate Judges, Quarterly meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, December 2008
- Mentor Orientation, Magistrate Judge, Athens, Georgia, March 2008
- Georgia Magistrate Courts Training Council, General Training, Peachtree City, Georgia, June 2008
- Georgia Magistrate Courts Training Council, Firearms Awareness, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2009
SPEAKER
- "Evolution of Utilization Review," Urology Lawyers Council,
St. Louis, Missouri, December 1988
- "Considerations in Medical Malpractice," Lawyer Pilots
Bar Association, Mackinac Island, Michigan, July 1989
- "Evolution of Hospital Liability," Lawyer Pilots Bar Association,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 1990
- "Medicine for the Trial Lawyer: Urology," Georgia Trial
Lawyers Association Fall Workshop, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1990
- "Cases that Aren't, and Some that Are," Preparation of
a Medical Malpractice Case Seminar, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association,
Atlanta, Georgia, February 1991
- "Cases that Aren't, and Some that Are," Georgia Trial
Lawyers Association, Atlanta, Georgia, August 1991
- "Medical Malpractice: Cases that Are and Some that Aren't,"
ATLA National Convention, San Francisco, California, August 1993
- "The Penile Implant and the FDA," Penile Implant Litigation
Group Seminar, Phoenix, Arizona, January 1994
- "Lawyers and Medicine," National Association of Legal
Secretaries, Regional Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, February 1994
- Moderator, Seminar on Penile Implants, A.T.L.A National Convention,
New York, July, 1995
- "Medical Etymology," National Association of Legal Secretaries,
Biloxi, Mississippi, September 1995"
- "Expert Witnesses -- Now that I have them, What do I do?,"
Institue of Continuing Legal Education, Atlanta, Georgia, April 1996
- "Medical Etymology for Dummies," Georgia Association of
Legal Secretaries, Columbus, Georgia, April 1996
- "Urology: Current Trends," Southern Trial Lawyers Association,
New Orleans, February 1997
- "Health Care Litigation, Secrets to Winning," Southern
Trial Lawyers Association, New Orleans, February 1997
- "The Care and Feeding of Expert Witmesses," Georgia Trial
Lawyers Association, Atlanta, February 1997
- "The Challange of Litigation," Georgia Trial Lawyers Association,
Atlanta, February, 1997
- "Penile Anatomy, Surgery and Examples of Penile Implants,"
ATLA National Meeting, San Diego, July 1997
- "Layman's Lawyer," Television Appearance. Medical Malpractice,
Atlanta, August 1997
- Medical Etymology, GTLA Paralegal seminar, Atlanta, Ga. Sept. 1999
- Medical Malpractice Seminar, GTLA, Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 2000
- Hospital Records, All the Components, General Practice Section,
Georgia State Bar, Wild Dunes, Charleston, South Carolina, Feb. 2002
- Medical Etymology, GTLA Paralegal Seminar, Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 2003
- Organizing and Analyzing Medical Records, The Ultimate Medical Malpractice
Seminar, GTLA, Atlanta, Ga., March 2004
- Medical Etymology, GTLA Paralegal Seminar, Atlanta, Ga., April 2009
PAPERS PUBLISHED
- "Observations on the Medical Malpractice Crisis," Lawyer
Pilots Bar Association Journal, Summer 1987
- "The Doctrine of Informed Consent," Medicine and Law,Vol.6:117,
1987
- "Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, Part I,"
Verdict March 1990
- "National Practitioner Data Bank, Part 2," Verdict, May
1990
- "The Penile Prosthesis: Panacea or Pandora's Box?: Verdict
(Journal of Georgia Trial Lawyers Association), Spring 1994
- Contributing Author, 1997 Wiley Medical Malpractice Update, "Urology:
Recent Innovations in Technology, Surgery, and Treatment,"
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997
- Medical Errors: Do the Doctors Have Any Idea What Is About To
Happen To Them? Verdict, Fall, 2002
- To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, “Verdict”,
Winter, 2003
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