Honors and Awards:

• Named  in Rising Stars 2009 Georgia Super Lawyers Magazine
• Named Georgia Superlawyer, 2010
• Named Georgia Superlawyer, 2011

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Member Georgia State Bar and Chair of Environmental Law Section (Chair 2008), Senior Editor Environmental Law Section Newsletter; Member of District of Columbia Bar and Environmental and Natural Resources Section; Member of Washington State Bar and Land Use and Environmental Law Section; Member of American Bar Association and  Environmental and Natural Resources Section; Associate Member of Environmental Law Institute.
• COURT ADMISSIONS: United States Supreme Court; Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Northern District of Georgia; Middle District of Georgia; Southern District of Georgia; District of Columbia District Court; Georgia Supreme Court; Georgia Court of Appeals; Georgia Superior Courts; District of Columbia Courts; Washington State Courts.

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Georgia State Bar Environmental Law Section Officer 2004-2008; Georgia Environmental Law Section Newsletter Editor 2006 and Senior Editor 2009-2010; Volunteer for Georgia Chief Justice's Commission of Professionalism 1998-2009; East Atlanta Community Association, Vice-Chair Land Use and Zoning 2004-2006; City of Atlanta, Neighborhood Planning Unit W Executive Committee 2004-2010; Pro Bono litigation on behalf of Altamaha Riverkeeper, Altamaha Coastkeeper, Coosa River Basin Initiative, Flint Riverkeeper, Ogeechee-Canoochee Riverkeeper, Satilla Riverkeeper, Savannah Riverkeeper and Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper in challenge to proposed Longleaf Power Plant in Georgia.

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Author, "Georgia & Brownfield Development," Brownfield News & Sustainable Development, Vol. 12, Issue 5, October, 2008; Author, "When Good Development Goes Bad, Why Dirt Isn't Cheap Anymore," Sustainable Land Development Today, February, 2008; Co-author, "Georgia's NPDES Construction Storm Water Discharge General Permit: Requirements, Enforcement and Litigation," State Bar of Georgia, Environmental Law Summer Seminar Program Materials, 2006; Co-author and editor, The Current Flow of Storm Water Regulation and Litigation in Georgia, State Bar of Georgia, Environmental Law Summer Seminar Program Materials, 2005; Co-author, "Navigating Through Clean Water Act Jurisdiction After SWANCC," State Bar of Georgia, Environmental Law Section Newsletter, Fall, 2004; Co-author, "TMDLs in Georgia: Where Are We Ten Years After the First 303 (d) List," Water Law Seminar Program Materials, State Bar of Georgia, 2002; Co-author, "Circuit Court Ruling for Sierra Club Halts Forest Services' Timber Sales in Georgia," State Bar of Georgia, Environmental Law Section Newsletter, Spring/Fall 1999; Co-author, "Citizen's Suits Under the Clean Water Act," State Bar of Georgia, Environmental Law Section Newsletter, Fall, 1997; Co-author, "Considerations on Bringing a Clean Water Act Citizen's Suit in Georgia," 1997 Environmental Law Seminar Program Materials, State Bar of Georgia; Author, Summary of 1994 Georgia legislation on Driving Under the Influence, 11 Ga. St. L.R. 215; Frequent lecturer for Georgia Continuing Legal Education programs on the Clean Water Act, state water law, solid waste issues and toxic torts.

Verdicts and Settlements:

• PUBLISHED DECISIONS: City of Mountain Park, Georgia v. Lakeside at Ansley, LLC et al., 560 F.Supp2d 1288 (N.D. Ga. 2008); Parker v. Scrap Metal Processors, Inc., 468 F.3d 733 (11th Cir. 2006); Amin v. Guruom, Inc., 280 Ga. 873, 658  S.E.2d 105 (Ga. 2006); Colony Bank Southeast v. Brown et al., 275 S.E.2d 807 (Ga. App. 2005); Parker v. Scrap Metal Processors, Inc., 386 F.3d 993 (11th Cir. 2004); 1845 LaDawn Lane LLC v. Bowman et al., 277 Ga. 741 (Ga. 2004); Daniel Metzler v.  Steven Rowell, Rochelle Routman, and the Wildwood Urban Forest Group, 248 Ga. App. 596 (2001); Driscoll v. Adams, 181 F.3d 1285 (11th Cir. 2000); Sierra Club et al. v. George Martin et al., 168 F.3d 1 (11th Cir. 1999); Sierra Club et al. v. Hankinson et al., 1997 WL 33303777 (N.D. Ga. 1997). VERDICTS AND SETTLEMENTS: Clean Water Act: Mark E. Chernak v. Blankenship Homes, Inc.,JLB Development, Inc. and Johnny Blankenship, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, 2006; Patti Barnette v. Morrison Homes, Inc. and Elite Development Services, Inc. United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, 2005; United States Environmental Protection Agency v. W. Arnold Hensley, EPA Administrative Action, 2001; Driscoll v. Adams, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, 2001; CERCLA/RCRA:  College Park Holdings, LLC v. RaceTrac Petroleum, Inc. v. Camden Oil Company, LLC; Petroleum Realty II, LLC; USRP (HOLLIS), LLC; and Trico V Petroleum, Inc., United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia, 2001; Parker v. Scrap Metal Processors, Inc., United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia, 2003; State Law:  Charles and Faye McKay v. Clarence and Jean Davis, Superior Court of Fayette County, July, 2006; Raymond and Carla Brown, et al v. Tenaska, Inc., et al., United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia , 2004; Robinson, et al. v. Colonial Pipeline Co., et al., United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, 2000.

Educational Background:

• BA - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1991