Mr. Gregory C. Sowell
James Bates Brannan Groover LLP
Greg has been engaged in the general practice of law in Georgia for 42 years, with the first 29 of those being in Tifton before moving to Athens to teach at the law school and to practice in Athens. He is currently a partner in the Athens office of James Bates Brannan Groover.
Greg has served as President of both the Tifton Judicial Circuit Bar Association (Tift, Turner, Worth and Irwin Counties) and the Western Judicial Circuit Bar Association (Clarke and Oconee Counties). He is a former member of the Board of Governors of the State Bar and also a former member of the Disciplinary Board of the State Bar, having been appointed by the Georgia Supreme Court. He has served as both vice chair and chair of the State Bar’s Member Benefits Committee during the time that the Bar began to provide Fastcase and the means to obtain group health insurance for State Bar members. He currently serves as Editor of the Calendar Call, the publication of the General Practice and Trial Section.
A former president of the UGA Law School Association, Greg was an adjunct professor in business law at ABAC in Tifton for 20 years and he developed the course on Solo and Small Firm Practice and taught it as an adjunct professor at Georgia Law for five years.