Mr. Brandon Alexander Bullard

The Bullard Firm LLC

Appellate lawyer Brandon Bullard has been briefing and arguing com- plex matters since he graduated 
Emory Law in 2007. He began his career in Georgia’s then-nascent public-defender system, where he 
held several titles, including Chief Legal Officer and State Appellate Defender.
Brandon left public service in 2020 and founded The Bullard Firm, LLC, a boutique firm that 
specializes in appellate and post-conviction liti- gation He is a member of the State Bar of 
Georgia, and the bars of the Su- preme Court of the United States; the United States Courts of 
Appeals for the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and D.C. Circuits. He is respon- sible 
for several noteworthy precedents, which he obtained on behalf of a party or as amicus curiae, 
including: And He was either counsel or amicus curiae on several cases of note in Georgia, 
including in the last few years:
•  In re Muse,     S.E.2d    , No. A24A0647 (Ga.App. Aug. 13, 2024);
•  Tatum v. State, 903 S.E.2d 109 (Ga. 2024);
•  Ridley v. State, 890 S.E.2d 385 (Ga.App. 2023);
•  Chapman v. State, 890 S.E.2d 313 (Ga.App. 2023);
•  Johnson v. State, 885 S.E.2d 725 (Ga. 2023);
•  Gonzales v. State, 884 S.E.2d 319 (Ga. 2023);
•  Langley v. State, 868 S.E.2d 759 (Ga. 2022);
•  Jordan v. State, 854 S.E.2d 584 (Ga. 2021);
•  Gray v. State, 850 S.E.2d 36 (Ga. 2020);
•  State v. Remy, 840 S.E.2d 385 (Ga. 2020);
•  Debelbot v. State, 839 S.E.2d 513 (Ga. 2020); and
•  Mobley v. State, 834 S.E.2d 785 (2019).
Brandon is past chair of the State Bar of Georgia’s appellate practice section. He is a member of 
the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Amicus Curiae and regularly appears on behalf 
of that organiza- tion before the state’s appellate courts. Brandon is a frequent commentator on 
issues of criminal law and procedure in the news. And he is member of
the American Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Federal Bar Association, the, the Clarence Cooper Inn of Court, and the Lawyers’ Club of Atlanta.
Brandon is married to Margaret Bullard, a staff attorney at the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who is a smarter lawyer and better writer than he. Brandon and Margaret are parents to one dog, Radar, who neither practices nor writes, and a human son, Oliver, age 4, who is cleverer than either of his parents.