Profession
Attorney - Commercial Litigation, Complex Litigation, Product Liability, Toxic Torts, Transportation Law

Work History
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, L.L.P., 1995 - present
Neely & Player, P.C., 1979 - 1994

Experience
Fifteen years experience as mediator/arbitrator in a variety of personal injury and commercial matters. Commercial matters include breach of contract for services, sales, employment, franchise, real property, insurance; transportation, matters include freight claims, tariffs, DOT regulations, common carrier duties; and tort matters include, toxic torts, slander, premises liability, product liability, employment, sexual abuse and harassment.

Twenty-four years experience as a civil trial lawyer in state and federal courts in commercial, complex, products, toxic tort, and transportation matters. Commercial experience in breach of contract claims, business disputes, freight claims, collection matters, indemnification, subrogation actions, fraud, and bad faith claims.

Product liability experience, construction equipment, vehicles, household goods, power tools, aircraft, scaffolding, children's products, medical devices, toxic substances, inhalants, pesticides, and alcoholic beverages. Have managed national and regional litigation for a variety of clients which required development of national litigation and settlement strategies. Experienced in class action and multi-district litigation, recall and consumer warning campaigns, national and regional administration of multi-claim actions, including development of systems for investigation, litigation, processing, and settlement of claims.

Transportation law experience in commercial and personal injury cases, shipping contracts, freight claims, tariffs, bills of lading, DOT regulations, and federal preemption.

General litigation of personal injury actions, premises liability cases matters involving allegations of sexual misconduct.

Alternative Dispute Resolution Experience
Since 1991, have routinely served as an arbitrator or mediator in matters outlined above. Served on AAA's Olympic Arbitrator's Panels for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games (Atlanta) and the 1998 Winter Olympic Games (Nagano, Japan). Have routinely served since 1989, on a pro bono basis, as an arbitrator in Fulton County's court ordered arbitration program and for AAA, and since 1998 as a mentor and trainer for The Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, College of Law, Georgia State University program for Conflict Resolution in Public Schools.

Alternative Dispute Training
Commercial Mediation Training (AAA) 2000; Commercial Arbitration Training (obtained newly required AAA commercial certification), 1998; Olympics Arbitration Training, 1996, 1998; AAA Arbitration Training 1993; Mediation Training (Judicial Resources, Inc.) 1992; Mediation Training (AAA) 1991; Fulton County Arbitration Program Training 1989; Faculty, various AAA seminars and training classes, 1993 - 1998. Registered neutral with the Georgia Supreme Court since the inception of its registration program in 1994. Court approved neutral with the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia.

Professional Licenses/Court Admissions
Admitted to practice in Georgia, 1979. Admitted in all state and federal courts in Georgia, and in the Eleventh and Third Circuit Courts of Appeal and the United States Supreme Court.

Professional Associations
American Bar Association (Federal Court Annexed Programs Committee of Section of Dispute Resolution), Georgia State Bar (ADR section), Member at Large, Board of Directors, Atlanta Bar ADRL Section, American Arbitration Association, Association of Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy, Georgia Association of Women Lawyers.

Education
Duke University School of Law, J.D. 1979. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A. 1975 (Phi Beta Kappa).