PRINCIPAL ATTORNEYS JEFFREY D. SEGAL: Born Pomona, California, August 8, 1953; admitted to bar, 1978, Georgia and Florida; 1980, U.S. Tax Court. Education: Vanderbilt University (B.A., cum laude, 1975); University of Florida (J.D. with high honors, 1978). Phi Kappa Phi; Order of the Coif. Executive Editor, University of Florida Law Review, 1977-1978. Author: Note, "U.C.C. Section 9-310: Priority Conflicts Between Article 9 Security Interests and Florida's Statutory Liens," 29 University of Florida Law Review 976, 1977. Instructor, Legal Research, University of Florida, 1978. Member: State Bar of Georgia; The Florida Bar. Concentration: Estate Planning Law; Corporate Law; Taxation Law. Send e-mail. MICHAEL H. SHUSTER: Born New York, New York, 1963; admitted to bar, 1987, Georgia; 1988, Florida, U.S. Tax Court and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; Georgia Court of Appeals and Georgia Supreme Court. Education: University of Florida (B.S. in Accounting with high honors 1984; J.D. with honors 1987). Member: Atlanta and American (Member Sections on Corporation, Banking and Business Law; Taxation) Bar Associations: State Bar of Georgia (Member, Sections on: Corporation and Banking Law; Taxation); The Florida Bar. Concentration: Acquisitions, Divestitures and Mergers; Corporate Law; Covenants Not To Compete; Health Law; Estate Planning Law; Tax Controversies. Send e-mail. WILLIAM R. LESTER: Born Norfolk, Virginia; January 8, 1956; admitted to bar, 1981, Georgia. Education: London Polytechnic University; Tulane University (B.A., 1978); Emory University (J.D., 1981). Member: Atlanta, DeKalb (President, 1990-1991) and Federal Bar Associations; State Bar of Georgia; Georgia Trial Lawyers Association; Lawyers Club of Atlanta. Concentration: Civil and Business Litigation; Domestic Relations; Personal Injury; Workers Compensation. Send e-mail. CHARLES I. POLLACK: Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1962; admitted to bar 1987, Georgia, U.S District Court, Northern District of Georgia and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 1988, District of Columbia; Education: George Washington University (B.B.A., 1984); Emory University (J.D., 1987). Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Alpha Delta (Vice Justice, 1986-1987). Member: State Bar of Georgia (Member, Sections on: Corporation and Banking Law; General Practice and Trial Law; Real Property Law), District of Columbia Bar; Concentration: Commercial Transactions; Real Estate; Corporate Law. Send e-mail. JEFFREY A. POWELL: Born Greeneville, Tennessee, October 20, 1969; admitted to bar, Georgia and Tennessee 1994; also admitted in U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Georgia, Middle District of Georgia, and Eastern District of Tennessee; Education: University of Tennessee, Knoxville (B.S., Accounting with honors, 1991; recipient, Tennessee Society of CPAs Scholarship); Emory University School of Law (J.D., 1994; recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law); Author and lecturer: "Practical Legal Ethics," National Business Institute (1999); Member: American Bar Association (Litigation section), State Bar of Georgia (Business law section, and Labor and employment law section), and Tennessee Bar Association. Concentration: Civil and commercial litigation, Employment law. Send e-mail. ASSOCIATE ATTORNEYS |