- Represented Fortune 50 retailer in antitrust action against Visa and MasterCard, challenging allegedly unlawful practices that inflated merchant fees for credit and debit card transactions.
- Represented Fortune 50 retailer in insurance coverage dispute, seeking recovery of costs related to class action claims arising from a data breach.
- Currently defending an information technology company against class action claims brought in connection with a data breach.
- Currently representing a digital infrastructure company in a commercial dispute related to data center hosting services.
- Represented minority owner of privately held digital infrastructure company in corporate governance and ownership dispute, including at jury trial and on appeal before the Georgia Court of Appeals.
- Secured complete dismissal of class action brought against Fortune 500 financial technology company.
- Obtained dismissal of negligent misrepresentation claim asserted against Fortune 500 financial technology company.
- Successfully represented plaintiff in landmark premises liability and apportionment appeal before the Georgia Supreme Court. Martin v. Six Flags Over Georgia II, L.P., 301 Ga. 323 (2017).
- Represented plaintiffs in Rucho v. Common Cause, 139 S. Ct. 2484 (2019), a constitutional challenge to the partisan gerrymandering of North Carolina’s congressional districts.
- Represented plaintiffs in Common Cause v. Kemp, 714 Fed. App’x 990 (11th Cir. 2018), a statutory and constitutional challenge to Georgia’s voter purge statute.
- Successfully represented political party, candidate, and voter plaintiffs in challenges to rules promulgated by the Georgia State Election Board in advance of the 2024 election.
- Representing state political party as intervenor opposing challenges to election certification.
- Atlanta Bar Association, Corporate Counsel Section, Board Member At-Large
- State Bar of Georgia, UPL District 5 Committee, Chair
- University of Georgia School of Law, Law School Alumni Council, Board Member
- Pace Academy, Alumni Scholar Award, Committee Chair
- Clarke-Carley Inn of Court, Barrister, 2021-2023
Education
- University of Georgia, J.D., 2014, Magna Cum Laude
- Order of the Coif
- Executive Board, Georgia Law Review
- National Moot Court Competition, Winner and Best Oralist
- Talmadge Moot Court Competition, Winner and Best Oralist
- Russell Moot Court Competition, Winner
- Georgia State University, B.A., 2010
Previous Experience
- In-house Counsel, The Home Depot
- Law Clerk, Judge Frank M. Hull, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2014–2015
Admissions
- State Bar of Georgia
- Supreme Court of Georgia
- Georgia Court of Appeals
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia