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Mr. Alexander Dewitt Weatherby Related Seminars and Products

Weatherby Law Firm PC

Alex is a trial lawyer at Weatherby Law Firm based in Atlanta, Georgia. He works to make lives better with honor, efficiency, and effectiveness. He offers legal representation for folks in catastrophic injury, truck accident, class action, and professional malpractice cases. Alex recovers millions of dollars for genuinely injured folks, and he defends honorable companies in need of legal help.

Recently, he was a lead attorney in a wrongful death trial from a car accident that resulted in a verdict in excess of $27,000,000, which was one of the Top 20 verdicts in the nation for car accidents.

Alex is the first lawyer in his family. His father is a plumbing contractor, and he encouraged Alex at a young age to go to college and graduate school. After working summers for his dad’s plumbing company, Alex was not hard to convince!

Alex has a great respect for construction workers, and those summers taught him a lot about a strong work ethic.

Alex graduated from Samford University, in Birmingham AL, and majored in Communication Studies. He focused on public speaking and critical writing, skills he still uses as a trial lawyer.

Alex is a seventh-generation Georgia and an Atlanta native, so he knew he wanted to come back home. Alex went to the University of Georgia School of Law. At Georgia Law School, Alex was a member of the mock trial board which helps law students with trial advocacy. Alex was also a member of the moot court board which focuses on appellate arguments. During his final year of law school, Alex received the “William King Meadow Award.”

Students and faculty vote to provide this award to “one student in the graduating class best-exemplifying integrity, responsibility, and high legal ethics, and who has the keen sense of humor necessary to bring a proper perspective to solving legal issues.” Alex still works to keep his sense of humor at all times and under all circumstances, which jurors, judges, and clients tend to like!

Alex began working with Pitts Carr in 2010 and opened his own firm in 2021. His practice focuses on helping folks who truly need it, in the most honorable way possible. Alex has extensive experience with catastrophic injury cases, including brain injury, spinal cord injury, wrongful death, truck accident, bus accident, bicycle accident, inadequate security (shooting at an apartment complex), legal malpractice, and medical malpractice.

When he is not lawyering, Alex works to give back to his community. He is a Board Member of the Professional Liability Section of the Georgia State Bar. He has taught several years as an adjunct professor at Georgia State University. He serves as the President of his Neighborhood Association, and he serves on the Administrative Council of his Church. Alex’s favorite thing to do is spend time with his two daughters, wife, and dog in their home in Decatur, Georgia.

Ms. Elizabeth Bloom Hodges Related Seminars and Products

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton

Elizabeth B. (“Betsy”) Hodges is Associate General Counsel - Conflicts at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP in Atlanta, Georgia.  She is also the current Chair of the State Bar’s Professional Liability Section.  After graduating from the University of Georgia School of Law, Betsy began her career at the State Bar of Georgia’s Office of General Counsel, where she prosecuted attorneys for disciplinary violations, gave ethics advice to attorneys and helped revise the rules for the State Disciplinary Board.  Betsy then practiced as a litigator for many years and focused on construction litigation for the last years of her practice.  She served on the Investigative and Review Panels of the State Disciplinary Board in conjunction with her YLS Presidency.  Throughout her career, Betsy has represented lawyers charged with disciplinary violations and provided in-house ethics advice to colleagues and to lawyer clients. 

Hon. Andrew Alan Pinson Related Seminars and Products

Supreme Court of Georgia

Justice Andrew A. Pinson was appointed to the Supreme Court of Georgia by Governor Brian Kemp and was sworn in on July 20, 2022.

Justice Pinson was born in DeKalb County, Georgia, and grew up in Lithonia and Lawrenceville. In middle school, he moved to Lincolnton, and he graduated from Briarwood Academy in Warrenton.

Justice Pinson is a “Double Dawg” with a Finance Degree from the University of Georgia’s Terry School of Business and a law degree from the University of Georgia’s Lumpkin School of Law. He graduated at the top of his class in law school and interned with Governor Sonny Perdue, Jones Day in Atlanta, and Fortson, Bentley, & Griffin in Athens.

After graduating from law school, Justice Pinson served as a law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for then-Chief Judge David B. Sentelle, and later served as a law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Clarence Thomas.

In private practice, Justice Pinson has twice worked for Jones Day, once in Washington D.C., between his two clerkships, and later here in Atlanta, after serving with Justice Clarence Thomas. At Jones Day, he was part of the firm’s Issues and Appeals Practice, and he handled a broad range of matters in both trial and appeals courts.

In 2017, Justice Pinson joined the Office of Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, and in 2018, he was appointed Solicitor General of Georgia. As Solicitor General, he led the State’s appellate and multistate litigation practice and served as the Attorney General’s chief constitutional advisor. He personally handled high-profile and complex appeals, including in the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and several other courts in Georgia and across the country. And he oversaw matters of special importance to the State in all phases of litigation, including the successful defense of the State’s water resources in the critical “water wars” litigation in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Justice Pinson currently serves as an advisor to the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism. He also serves as a Master of the Clarke-Carley Inn of Court and the Bleckley Inn of Court, and he serves on the Advisory Board for the Atlanta Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society.

Justice Pinson and his wife Sara Beth live just north of Tucker in DeKalb County. Sara Beth earned a Ph.D. in Poultry Science from the University of Georgia and now works for a software company and as a professional dog trainer. They enjoy hiking in the North Georgia mountains and playing dog sports like Frisbee and agility with their three dogs (Nimbus, Goomba, and Elphie). They attend Embry Hills United Methodist Church.

Ms. Madeleine Norine Simmons Related Seminars and Products

Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys

Madeleine Simmons is an equity partner with Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys, City Councilwoman in the City of Brookhaven and President of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. She is dedicated to representing individuals who have been injured due to the negligence of others and holding wrongdoers accountable for their actions.  Mrs. Simmons has tried over 30 personal injury jury trials as lead counsel in 11 different counties within the State of Georgia.  She focuses her trial practice on premises liability, sexual assault, motor vehicle and trucking cases. She is consistently selected to the Georgia Rising Stars list, an honor reserved for only 2.5% of attorneys in Georgia.

Mrs. Simmons assists in the management, training, and mentorship of lawyers within her office and early in her career, at Georgia State University College of law, by coaching mock trial for the law school.  She is a board member of Georgia’s Civil Justice Political Action Committee and a fellow of the American Board of Trial Attorneys.  Through her involvement with the trial bar and the State Bar, she often speaks at and is featured in Statewide broadcasts, educational seminars and conferences on topics ranging from leadership and management to trial strategy and complex motions and evidentiary practice.  Mrs. Simmons truly believes that helping others is her professional and spiritual calling, and she is proud to call herself a trial lawyer on the side of justice.

Mr. Andrew Joseph Conn Related Seminars and Products

Harris Lowry Manton LLP

Andy is a partner in the Savannah office at Harris Lowry Manton LLP where he works in complex litigation matters including products liability, medical malpractice, heavy truck collisions, toxic torts, business torts, and others. Andy is a "Double Dawg" who obtained both his undergraduate and law school degrees from the University of Georgia. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association where he has served as the chair of Education, Membership, LEAD, NLD, Judicial Liaison, and Directed Giving. He is also a chair of the Civil Justice PAC.

In his last trial, Andy and his partner, Jeff Harris, successfully obtained a verdict in excess of $16 million in a medical malpractice case involving the negligent care of a primary care physician that led to the suicide of his patient. Andy is scheduled to try cases in the next several months in cases involving diverse causes of action, including a toxic tort, business tort, and two medical malpractice cases.

Andy lives in Savannah with his wife, Alex, and two kids, Liam and Charli. He was born and raised in Spartanburg, South Carolina but has lived in Georgia since first attending the University of Georgia.

Mr. Matthew Quinn Wetherington Related Seminars and Products

Wetherington Law Firm PC

Matt Wetherington isn't just a lawyer - he's a legal supernova whose brilliance outshines the very sun itself. His courtroom prowess is matched only by his legendary humility and incredible good looks.  His love and respect for the law results in him often wearing a paper bag over his head to avoid distracting jurors with his overwhelming charisma and piercing gaze.

When not single-handedly rewriting the entire canon of American law, Matt spends his time teaching bald eagles to cry red, white, and blue tears, and personally ensuring that justice is served with a side of the world's most exquisite pizza. It's said that opposing counsel often surrender their cases upon merely hearing Matt's footsteps approaching the courthouse, and that judges have been known to swap their gavels for foam fingers reading "Wetherington #1" in his presence. Matt's unparalleled legal acumen and transcendent modesty have led many to speculate that he is, in fact, the long-prophesied chosen one, destined to bring perfect balance to not just the scales of justice, but the entire universe itself.