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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. Robert Charles McBurney Related Seminars and Products

Fulton County Superior Court

Judge McBurney has served on the Superior Court of Fulton County since April 2012.  He handles a split docket of civil and criminal cases.  He is also one of Fulton County’s Accountability Court judges, which means he has the opportunity to work with individuals who are serious about achieving a sustainable recovery from addiction.

Judge McBurney chairs the Mental Health Task Force, a joint city-county collaboration of criminal justice and public service agencies from Atlanta and greater Fulton County.

Before joining the bench, Judge McBurney worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in Atlanta.  As a federal prosecutor, he focused on cases involving public corruption, international terrorism, and child exploitation.

Judge McBurney received his B.A. from Harvard College and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.  Prior to his years of public service, he worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.  Judge McBurney lives in Atlanta with his wife Courtney, an executive training officer at McDonald’s (yes, the burger place), two wonderful (and exhausting) boys, and two fuzzy dogs.

Hon. Alvin T. Wong Related Seminars and Products

DeKalb County State Court

Alvin T. Wong was elected Judge of the State Court of DeKalb County in 1998. He was the first Asian Pacific American (APA) to run for public office in metro Atlanta and the first to be elected judge in the Southeast. Elected in a county where Asians made up less than 2% of registered voters, he has served continuously unopposed for 25 years. He served as Chief Judge in 2023 - 2024.

A former partner at Gambrell and Stolz (now Baker Donelson), Judge Wong had 21 years of experience as a corporate and trial attorney before running for office. He chaired the State Bar’s Investigative Panel for disciplinary action against unethical practices by Georgia attorneys. In 2004, he co-founded a DUI Court designated a model court in 2020.

His heart is in the community. He is past president of the Council of State Court Judges, the first APA president of any judicial council in Georgia history. He serves on the ABA House of Delegates, representing the Georgia Bar. And, he has volunteered on the boards of Fernbank Museum of Natural History, LifeLine Animal Project, and the NAPABA Law Foundation, mentoring future leaders as co-director of its Thomas Tang National Moot Court Competition.

In May 2022, the State Bar awarded him its Commitment to Equality Randolph Thrower Lifetime Achievement Award. Other honors include the State Bar’s Tradition of Excellence Award and Thomas O. Marshall Professionalism Award; the Daily Report’s Professional Excellence Lifetime Achievement Award; and a NAPABA Trailblazer Award. In 2014, GAPABA (the Georgia Asian Bar which he co-founded) established its highest award, the Judge Alvin T. Wong Pioneer Award, in his honor.

Al Wong immigrated to the U.S. from Hong Kong at age 14. He lives in Brookhaven with wife Jeannie Lin, a strategic communications professional, their three cats, and Coco, a special-needs dachshund mix.

Mr. Michael Lawson Neff Related Seminars and Products

Law Offices of Michael Lawson Neff

Biography of Michael L. Neff Trial Attorney:

Mike Neff founded Neff Injury Law in April 1996. After a successful solo career, Mike added Dwayne Adams, and Susan Cremer to the firm. Mike has been lead counsel in trials where the jury returned verdicts totaling over $100 million.

In 2011, 2012, and 2013, Mike was lead counsel in three record-setting verdicts in Georgia, according to CaseMetrix: a $9 million verdict in a negligent security and rape case; a $2.79 million verdict in a grocery store fall case where the client developed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome; and a $35 million verdict against the amusement park Six Flags in a premises liability case.

In 2017, Mike was lead counsel in two trials that resulted in a total of $54 million in verdicts against an international car rental company, its agents, and an employee who stole a car and catastrophically injured two women.

Neff Injury Law is based in Atlanta and currently has cases pending in Georgia, Arizona, and California involving wrongful death, sexual assault, premises liability, trucking and bus wrecks, and products liability.

Mike is the author of Premises Liability: A Guide to Success and Premises Liability: A Guide Through Trial, both published by Trial Guides. He is active in the American Association for Justice (AAJ) and is member of the Executive Committee for AAJ’s Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group and AAJ’s Inadequate Security Litigation Group. In 2014, Mike was elected Chair of AAJ’s Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Litigation Group. He is recognized as an Advocate by the National College of Advocacy and has served on the Executive Committee of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association.

Mike is also the founder of the National Association of Premises Liability Attorneys (“NAPLA”), an organization for attorneys seeking justice for those injured or killed on the premises of another person or business. NAPLA’s mission is to educate attorneys, build community, and promote safety.

Ms. Sareena Ruth Beasley Related Seminars and Products

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Sareena Beasley is an experienced litigation attorney with a strong background in civil litigation. She represents clients in complex disputes, including commercial transportation matters, construction defects, and general liability claims.

Ms. Beasley works closely with insurers, contractors, and corporations to develop strategic legal solutions, leveraging her expertise in risk assessment, case analysis, and dispute resolution. She is dedicated to advocating for clients in state and federal courts, as well as through alternative dispute resolution forums.

Sareena earned her law degree from Emory University and is admitted to practice in both federal and state courts in Georgia.

With a commitment for effective client advocacy, Ms. Beasley provides insightful legal guidance on navigating the complexities of transportation, general liability and construction defect litigation.

Ms. Stacey Godfrey Evans Related Seminars and Products

Stacey Evans Law

Stacey Godfrey Evans practices complex business litigation, including extensive experience with False Claims Act and defamation claims. 

She represented whistleblowers in a Medicare fraud case against a major dialysis clinic chain that settled for $495 million ($324 million of which was returned to the U.S. Treasury). This was the largest non-intervened whistleblower Medicare fraud case in history. 

Stacey spent eight years as a securities and complex litigation attorney at Powell Goldstein, LLP, which is today known as Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP. There, she represented community bank boards of directors and other executives in litigation and internal investigations. She combines her unmatched work ethic with the savvy of a big firm defense attorney and the heart and practical touch of a plaintiff's attorney. 

Stacey is currently a State Representative and proudly represents House District 57, which includes portions of Atlanta. She was elected to serve this district in 2020. This is Stacey's second stint in the Georgia General Assembly. Stacey previously served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2010-2017, representing the Smyrna and Marietta areas of Cobb County. She currently serves on the Appropriations, Judiciary, and Retirement committees. 

She is a "Double Dawg" having earned her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Georgia. Stacey is very active in the community, having served on numerous community boards. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for G-CAPP (Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential) and the UGA School of Law Board of Visitors and is a Master in the Lumpkin Inn of Court. 

Stacey has also earned several honors for leadership and community service. For example, Stacey has been named to Georgia Trend's "40 Under 40" list and the Fulton County Daily Report's list of "40 Under 40 Rising Stars in the Legal Community:• She was also recognized by the Atlanta Business Chronicle in its article, "Up and Comers/Under 40 and Rising: 50 of Atlanta's Most Promising Young Stars;" she was the youngest person in this group of distinguished Georgians. Additionally, Stacey was named to the Class of 2008 of Outstanding Atlanta. She has been named to UGA's "40 under 40" and is a graduate of LEAD Atlanta, the State Bar Young Lawyers Division Leadership Academy and the Atlanta Women's Foundation Destiny Fund. Stacey has been named to Atlanta Magazine's Super Lawyers Rising Stars list over multiple years. 

Mr. Matthew Robert Kahn Related Seminars and Products

Butler | Kahn