“Practice Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions; Federal and State Taxation; Estate Planning and Administration.

Admitted: 1980, Georgia, Georgia Supreme Court, Georgia Court of Appeals, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia; 1982, United States Tax Court and United States Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit; 1983, United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia; 1987, United States Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit; 1992, United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia; 1997, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, United States Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit

Law School: University of Georgia, J.D., summa cum laude, 1980

College: University of Georgia, A.B., summa cum laude, 1973; Louisiana State University, M.A., 1974; Georgia State University, M.P.A., 1975

Member: Atlanta and American (Member: Taxation and Litigation Sections; Committee on Civil and Criminal Penalties) Bar Associations; Atlanta Tax Forum.

Biography: Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Beta Alpha Psi; Order of the Coif; Woodruff Scholar. Research Editor, Georgia Law Review, 1979-1980. Certified Public Accountant, Georgia, 1977. Author: “Voluntary Conveyances of Property Encumbered by Nonrecourse Debt,” 13 Georgia Law Review 243, 1978; “Minority Discounts for Family Controlled Corporations,” 56 J. Tax. 336, 1982. Co-Author: “Federal Taxation,” 35 Mercer Law Review 1227, 1984; “Federal Taxation,” 36 Mercer Law Review 1237, 1985. Adjunct Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law, 1983-1985.”