PRACTICE SUMMARY

Stites & Harbison, Atlanta office
May, 1999 - present
Member

Construction Service Group. Concentration in construction, hospitality, real estate and corporate areas including planning, negotiation and dispute resolution with regard to public and private contracts, acquisitions, development, management, suretyship, insurance, labor and employment.

Varner, Stephens, Humphries & White, LLP
1991 - 1999

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Georgia State University College of Law
Atlanta, Georgia
J.D.,1991

Am Jur Awards: Bankruptcy, Conflicts, Litigation

Auburn University College of Architecture
Auburn, Alabama
B.B.C., 1967

Lamda Chi Alpha

ADMISSIONS

• United States Supreme Court
• Georgia, 1991
• Supreme Court of Georgia
• Georgia Court of Appeals
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
• Federal Circuit Court of Appeals

DISPUTE RESOLUTION TRAINING
Panel Member of American Arbitration Association, Commercial and Construction Panels. Has served as sole arbitrator on numerous cases and as a tribunal member on more than ten cases.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• American Arbitration Association, Commercial Panel, Member
• American Arbitration Association, Construction Panel, Member
• American Bar Association, Forum on the Construction Industry
• Atlanta Bar Association, Construction Law Section, Member
• Cobb County Bar Association, Member
• Atlanta's Lawyer's Club
• Associated General Contractors, Firm Member
• Associated Builders and Contractors of Georgia, Firm Member

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Lecturer for Georgia Chapter, Associated General Contractors on Organized Labor's "COMET" Program and Employer Hiring Practices, Ponte Vedra, Florida, 1995

Lecturer for Atlanta Chapter of PEA on Bid Bonds and Busted Bids, Atlanta, Georgia, 1994

REPORTED CASES

Bishop Contracting Company, Inc. v. Center Brothers, Inc., 213 Ga.App. 804, 445 S.E.2d 780 (1994)

CIVIC ACTIVITIES

Vinings Rotary Club
Sentinel Lake Architectural Control Board