Zoning Law

Mr. Brandon Lowell Bowen Related Seminars and Products

Jenkins Bowen & Walker PC

Brandon L. Bowen is a 2001 graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, and a 1998 graduate of the University of Georgia.   Bowen was admitted to the Bar in Georgia in 2001, and performed a one-year judicial clerkship with the Superior Courts of Bartow and Gordon County, Georgia.  In August of 2002, Bowen became an associate with Jenkins & Olson, P.C., and a partner in that firm on January 1st, 2007.  The firm was renamed Jenkins, Olson & Bowen, P.C. in January of 2009 and Jenkins & Bowen, P.C. in January, 2012.

Brandon Bowen is a Partner at Jenkins & Bowen, P.C. a civil trial firm focused on the areas of zoning, condemnation, and local government law and in serious personal injury and trucking cases.  In addition to frequently appearing in the Superior Courts of Georgia, Bowen is a member of and has appeared in the Georgia Supreme Court and Court of Appeals and has also represented clients in zoning and condemnation cases in the United States District Courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.  Since April of 2005, Bowen has had the privilege of serving as the City Attorney of Mountain Park, Georgia.  He is currently the Solicitor of Bartow County, Georgia.   He has assisted a number of local governments throughout Georgia in crafting and adopting effective land use regulations.  Bowen regularly speaks at continuing education seminars for the Georgia Bar and other professional organizations on the topic of local government land use regulation.

Mr. Robert Lige Walker Related Seminars and Products

Jenkins Bowen & Walker PC

Robert Walker is a partner at Jenkins & Bowen, P.C., Walker has vast experience in the areas of insurance defense and personal injury.  He has represented individuals as both plaintiffs and defendants, as well as insurance companies across the state in actions involving serious personal injuries.  Walker has also represented various cities, counties, businesses, neighborhood associations, citizen groups and individuals in state and federal courts in Georgia in the areas of condemnation, zoning, land use, environmental, and local government law.  In addition, Walker has represented numerous individuals and businesses in litigation involving disputes over contracts, loan agreements, wrongful foreclosure and individual property rights.  He is a graduate of Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law, a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia, and an honors graduate of Abraham Baldwin College.

Walker has also lectured on a number of insurance, local government and legal topics for the Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, the University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government, the Atlanta Regional Commission and various industry groups and private clients.  He is a graduate of the State Bar of Georgia's Leadership Academy and has been named as a "Who's Who in American Law".  Walker has been a member of a number of committees with the State Bar of Georgia Young Lawyers Division, including Legislative Affairs, Real Estate and Litigation.  Walker is also an active member of his community, serving as a member of the Rotary Club of Bartow County, a regular judge/evaluator for the State Bar of Georgia's High School Mock Trial Program, and is actively involved in the Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce, serving on the Small Business Council and Cookout Committee.

Ms. Rachel Frazier Gage Related Seminars and Products

Robbins Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC

Rachel Gage is a partner with Robbins Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC. She has extensive experience in real estate-related and other complex business disputes. She represents developers and commercial landowners in landlord-tenant, eminent domain, and land use litigation, and has in-depth knowledge of Georgia zoning and land use law. Rachel is experienced in federal and state jury trials, arbitration hearings, bench trials, emergency hearings, and depositions. She graduated with honors from Cornell University and the University of North Carolina School of Law. She is admitted to practice in Georgia and North Carolina.

Rachel Gage Bio

Hon. Elizabeth Dallas Gobeil Related Seminars and Products

Georgia Court of Appeals

Judge Elizabeth Gobeil was appointed by Governor Deal to the Court of Appeals of Georgia on June 5, 2018 and was elected statewide in 2020. She’s a graduate of Emory University and the UGA School of Law.  Judge Gobeil spent the bulk of her career practicing general civil and life sciences law, including serving as a partner at Thompson Hine, LLP. and as in house counsel for two global pharmaceutical companies. Immediately prior to joining the bench, she was a Board member and Appellate Division Judge for the State Board of Workers’ Compensation, a position Governor Deal appointed her to serve in November of 2012.  Early in her career, she worked in Washington, DC for the late U.S. Senator Paul Coverdell, where she met her husband Bart.

Currently, Judge Gobeil serves on the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism, the Judicial Council Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the Courts (where she co-chairs the taskforce's subcommittee on access to justice and community engagement), the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Continuing Judicial Education (ICJE), and Emory University’s Board of Visitors. Among other involvements, she is a member of the Rotary Club of Savannah, the State Bar of Georgia, the Savannah Bar Association, the Lawyers Club of Atlanta, the Bleckley Inn of Court, and the Community Council of the Savannah Classical Academy.

Originally from Thomaston, Georgia, she and Bart now reside in Savannah, Georgia with their beloved (and spoiled) dog, Dutton.