Representative Experience Beazer Homes USA, Inc. - Shareholder, Derivative, and ERISA Defense. City of Pontiac v. Home Depot and Robert Nardelli - Shareholder, Derivative, Earnings, Restatement, and Options Back-Dating Defense. Worldcom: Director Liability Defense. AFC v. Arthur Andersen - Accounting Malpractice Defense. Stepak v. The Southern Company, et. al. - Shareholder Derivative Defense. BioLab Plant Fire and Mass Tort Class Actions Defense. U.S. v. CNN, Inc. - General Manuel Noriega Tape Disclosure Contempt Defense. Lewis v. Turner Broadcasting, Time Warner et. al. - Merger Challenge Defense. Turner Entertainment Co. v. Degato - European Satellite Usage Controversy. CNN, Inc. v. Reagan - CNN Camera Access to White House. Pharmanetics v. Aventis - Drug Development Contract and Business Failure Defense. Other Distinctions Recognized in America's Leading Lawyers for Litigation Law by Chambers USA (2003-2011). Named "Atlanta Bet-the-Company Litigator of the Year" for 2011 by Best Lawyers. 2008 Recipient - Atlanta Bar Association's Professionalism Award. Selected by Law & Politics and Atlanta Magazine as a Georgia Super Lawyer in Business Litigation (2004-2011). Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America in Bet-the-Company Litigation, Business Litigation and Commercial Litigation (1983-2012). Named to Georgia Trend magazine's Legal Elite in business litigation (2004-2006, 2008). Work Experience Partner, Troutman Sanders LLP, 1973-present Memberships · Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers - since 1985 · President, American College of Trial Lawyers - 2008/2009 · Fellow, American Bar Foundation · Atlanta Bar Foundation · Founding Master and Officer, American Inn of Court - Lumpkin Inn of Court at the University of Georgia School of Law · Northern District of Georgia Federal Bar Council - Former President · Atlanta Bar Association - Former Director · CLE Lecturer and Author Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers; American Bar Foundation; American Bar Foundation. |