Mr. Johannes S. Kingma

Mauldin & Jenkins, LLC

Joe is now General Counsel and Chief Risk Officer at Mauldin & Jenkins, LLC.  When in private practice, he represented international, national, and regional accounting and law firms in professional liability litigation and risk management.  He also represented a variety of business entities in commercial litigation, audit, secured lending, real estate, corporate governance and tax.  He has substantial experience in matters involving trusts and estates, conservation easements, mergers and acquisitions, captive insurance companies, local government, and election law contests.  He has represented clients in proceedings before the SEC (Washington, Fort Worth, and Manhattan), the FDIC, and the IRS.  He has more than 45 appellate decisions reported by Westlaw along with more than 100 trial court decisions issued by the Bankruptcy and Federal District Courts of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee.  He has been named one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Georgia 5 times and Legal Malpractice Lawyer of the Year 3 times, last in 2025.

Arbitration, Mediation & Alternative Dispute Resolution, Litigation & Appeals, Professional Liability Litigation, and Risk Management

Admitted Pro Hac Vice in Florida, Alabama, New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina

MEMBERSHIPS

American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow

State Bar of Georgia

American Bar Association, Standing Committee on Lawyers Professional Liability (2014-18)