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Mr. Kim Monroe Jackson Related seminars and products

Bovis Kyle Burch & Medlin LLC

Kim Jackson is a partner with Bovis, Kyle, Burch, & Medlin, LLC. His practice primarily focuses on defending attorneys and other professionals in malpractice claims and handling all forms of insurance coverage and bad faith disputes, though he has experience in all types of litigation. As part of his professional liability practice, Kim advices other attorneys and clients on the prosecution and defense of attorney fee claims involving allegations of abusive litigation, defends bar grievances, and testifies as an expert witness in matters involving legal malpractice and ethics questions. Kim successfully defended the constitutionality of O.C.G.A. 9-11-9.1, Georgia’s Affidavit of Merit statute, which resulted in an opinion by the Georgia Supreme Court, and the denial of cert by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Kim is a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, where is serves as the Chair of the Insurance Coverage Section and Vice-Chair of the Extra-Contractual Section. Kim is admitted to practice law in three states: Georgia, Kentucky, and Texas. Kim earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Kentucky in 1994, Order of Coif, and received his Bachelor of Arts from Wabash College, in economics & mathematics, magna cum laude, in 1991.

Mr. Edward Croxall Bresee Related seminars and products

Mozley Finlayson & Loggins LLP

Edward “Mickey” Bresee, Jr. joined Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins in 1991 and has been an equity partner since 1998.  His practice focuses on aviation litigation and involves defending airports, airlines, manufacturers, repair stations, pilots, owner/operators, fixed base operators, Part 135 commercial operators, and insurers in tort litigation.   He also handles subrogation litigation and general products liability litigation.

Prior to joining the firm, he served three years as an Assistant District Attorney where he gained extensive courtroom experience trying felony criminal cases.  Mr. Bresee has tried more than 40 jury trials in various state and federal courts.  He has been voted one of Georgia’s Super Lawyers every year since 2016.

Mr. Bresee has lectured throughout the country on topics including aviation litigation, insurance subrogation, and insurance coverage.  He has been a featured speaker at the SMU Air Law Symposium and the Aviation Insurance Association and has taught trial techniques at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy at Emory University.  Mr. Bresee has also lectured at seminars sponsored by the Aviation Section of the Georgia Bar Association and the National Association of Subrogation Professionals.

Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia
J.D. – 1988

University of Texas, Austin, Texas
B.A. – 1984

Mr. E. Alan Armstrong Related seminars and products

Alan Armstrong Attorney at Law

Alan Armstrong is an Airline Transport Pilot rated aviation lawyer who practices in Atlanta, Georgia. He appears in the Martindale-Hubble Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers and is recognized as a Georgia Super Lawyer and in the Atlanta Magazine 2020 Edition of the Top Lawyers in Georgia. He frequently appears on both local and national television as a commentator on aviation accidents and disasters. For example, on the date President Trump grounded the Boeing 737Max fleet, he was summoned to appear on CNN. He flies on the air show circuit as an air show demonstration pilot and has written over 100 articles on aviation law published in peer review and aviation periodical publications.    

Robert Lee Gibson Related seminars and products

Captain Robert “Hoot” Gibson graduated with an Associate Degree in Engineering Science from Suffolk County Community College and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. He entered the United States Navy and served as a Fighter Pilot in F-4 “Phantom” and F-14 “Tomcat” Aircraft and flew combat missions in Southeast Asia, making more than 300 carrier landings aboard the Aircraft Carriers “USS Coral Sea” and “USS Enterprise”. After attending the Navy Fighter Weapons School “Topgun”, and the Navy Test Pilot School, he served as a Flight Test Pilot prior to being selected as an Astronaut in 1978 in the first Space Shuttle Astronaut selection.

In 18 years as an Astronaut he flew 5 Space Flights, 4 of them as the Mission Commander, aboard the Space Shuttles “Challenger”, Columbia”, “Atlantis”, and “Endeavour”. His final Space Flight was the first mission to rendezvous and dock with the Russian Space Station “Mir” in 1995.

In his career with NASA, he held the positions of Deputy Chief of NASA Aircraft Operations, as the Deputy Director of Flight Crew Operations, and as the Chief Astronaut.

In a flying career covering over 60 years, he has accumulated more than 14,000 hours of flight time in more than 160 types of military and civilian aircraft.

He has received numerous honors, awards and decorations including the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross and has established 6 Aviation World Records and 3 Space World Records. Captain Gibson was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2003, the Long Island Air & Space Hall of Fame in 2011, the Spacecamp Hall of Fame in 2012, The Tennessee Aviation Hall of Fame in 2015, and was enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2013.