Smyrna Lawyers

Known as a fierce advocate, what distinguishes Jill G. Polster from other criminal defense attorneys is her passion for fighting for the underdog along with her extensive experience handling criminal cases.

-Polster has experience on both sides of the courtroom as a prosecutor and a defense attorney giving her a 360-degree view of your case.

-Polster has handled literally thousands of criminal cases from misdemeanors to murders.

-She has extensive jury trial experience with a proven track record of success both as a prosecutor and as a defense attorney.

-Polster thinks outside-the-box when it comes to crafting the most favorable resolution possible...

Arthur began his legal career at the Office of the Public Defender for the Augusta Judicial Circuit. During his time as an APD, Arthur represented hundreds of criminal defendants and tried both misdemeanor and felony cases to jury verdict. After leaving the Office of the Public Defender, Arthur entered private practice and turned his attention to representing the interests of injured workers across the state of Georgia.

Arthur graduated from Augusta State University, after which he went to work in Alaska as a commercial fisherman. Arthur believes that his experience in Alaska was invaluable, not only because it taught him the...

S. Derek Gage has been practicing in the Atlanta metro area as a criminal defense trial lawyer for well over a decade. Specializing in criminal and probate commitment cases involving mental illness and mental health challenges, Mr. Gage focuses on putting his clients on a path where they may safely leave the criminal justice system and other institutionalized environments and successfully manage their mental health challenges with pride and dignity. Mr. Gage practices in all metro Atlanta counties and beyond, including Fulton, DeKalb, Douglas, Gwinnett, Cobb, Clayton, Henry, and Hall.

I was born in Stockbridge, Georgia, April 4, 1972: admitted to the bar 2004, State of Georgia. Education: University of West Georgia (B.S.Ed. 1990); Georgia State University College of Law (J.D. 2004); Atlanta Law School Full Scholarship Recipient; Received Honors in Litigation; Moot Court Qualifier; Phi Alpha Delta (Marshal); State Bar of Georgia; Secretary, Douglas County Bar Association; Former Instructor, National Rifle Association. PRACTICE AREAS: Family Law; Juvenile Law; Criminal Law; Adoption; Wills; Civil Litigation.

Richard F. Evins is an attorney with over 26 years of experience practicing primarily in the areas of commercial and business litigation, collection law, consumer credit and contract law. The firm is located in LaGrange, GA. The firm handles legal matters statewide. Mr. Evins litigates a broad range of disputes including those related to commercial contracts, consumer law, business disputes, residential and commercial leases, small claims and general civil matters. He also defends consumers against the collection of medical bills, student loans, retail installment contracts, credit cards and other consumer debt. Mr. Evins practices in the Superior, State and Magistrate...

I founded The Mead Law Firm, LLC, to provide high quality Elder Law and Estate Planning services with a personal touch. We listen carefully to each Client's goals and concerns so that we can create Long Term Care Plans and Estate Plans that reflect each Client's unique circumstances. We help our Clients and their families: (1) find ways to pay for Long Term Care (including Medicaid eligibility and asset protection); (2) put in place the legal documents needed to allow trusted people to handle the Client's health care and financial decisions in case there comes a...

Ellene has been representing injured workers in west Georgia since 1988. She also practices Social Security disability law, assisting individuals who can no longer work due to illness or injury. A native of Columbus, GA, Ellene has fully staffed offices in her hometown as well as Douglasville, and her practice area covers all of west GA and east Alabama. Ellene and her staff take pride in providing personal service and attention during this difficult time in the lives of their clients.

Rebecca Kozycki was admitted to the Georgia Bar in 2001 and is a member of the United States Supreme Court, the Georgia Court of Appeals, and the Georgia Supreme Court. Experience Ms. Kozycki is a founding partner at Kozycki Law, LLC. Previously, she was a Senior Associate at Chestney & Sullivan Law Firm (formerly the Chestney Law Firm). She has devoted 100% of her practice to the vigorous defense of DUI and related traffic charges. She was distinguished as a Georgia Super Lawyer by Atlanta Magazine each year from 2013 to 2017 and as a Georgia Top Woman Attorney...

Aggressive and relentless, Mr. Poole develops custom tailored strategies designed to achieve exceptional outcomes for his clients. He represents businesses, business owners, and individuals in a wide range of complex litigation matters, including partnership and shareholder disputes, breach of contract, fraud, business torts, real estate disputes, and trade secret misappropriation. His extensive experience extends to high-stakes cases involving corporate governance issues, unfair competition claims, employment-related conflicts, and recovery for fraud. Mr. Poole’s practice spans industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and real estate, allowing him to bring industry-specific insight to every case. Known for his tenacity, he has successfully represented clients...

Chris P. Ramsay is an Associate Attorney at Meriwether & Tharp, LLC. He transitioned to family law after spending over a decade practicing as an eDiscovery attorney handling multinational mass tort and environmental civil cases. Chris is an alumni of the University of Georgia where he majored in International Business with a minor in Spanish. He received an M.B.A. from Kennesaw State University while working in procurement and logistics for an international engineering firm prior to earning his Juris Doctorate at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School. Chris is a native of Clemson, South Carolina, but has lived in Georgia for over...

Patrick B. Evans is an attorney at Meriwether & Tharp, LLC. Patrick graduated with a BS in Social Science from the University of North Georgia in 2002. Following his graduation Patrick received an ROTC Commission from the United State Army and served as an officer in the 2nd Squadron 14th Cavalry Regiment out of Ft. Lewis, WA. Following his time in the Army, Patrick decided to continue his education earning both a Masters of Public Administration from the University of North Georgia and a Juris Doctorate from Atlanta's John Marshall Law School. Patrick has been a member of the Georgia...

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Karmel S Davis Karmel S. Davis & Associates, PC 3550 Hwy 5 Douglasville, GA 30135 Contact Karmel S Davis T: 678-715-0967 F: 678-715-0987 Visit: www.karmeldavislaw.com Practice areas: Consumer and Business Bankruptcy, Wills and Estate Planning, General Civil Litigation and Real Estate Maters Ms. Davis’s practice emphasizes consumer and business bankruptcy, wills and estate planning, general civil litigation and real estate matters. She graduated from the University Of Tulsa College of Law and is the managing partner of the firm. About Karmel S Davis Graduate Degree: Thomas Jefferson Law School January 2012 - present Law School: University of Tulsa College of Law Admitted: 2003, Georgia Judicial...

Travis Little represents individuals and families in personal injury and wrongful death litigation. He has litigated against some of the largest corporations in the world, including Allstate, Bombardier, Coca-Cola, Delta, Hilton, Kroger, Lyft, Marriott, McDonalds, Nestle, State Farm, Subway, Target, Walmart, and others. In September 2010, he was a key member of the legal team that secured a landmark $43.5 million wrongful death verdict in Floyd County, Georgia. Since 2014, he has held an “AV – Preeminent” peer rating, the highest rating awarded by Martindale-Hubbell. In 2018 and 2019, he was listed as a SuperLawyers “Rising Star.” In 2020, he...

Drew Winslett is an associate attorney with Meriwether & Tharp, LLC. A Georgia native, he graduated from Mercer University in 2017 with a bachelors degree in Political Science and Law, Public Policy & Ethics, with a minor in Economics. Drew was inducted into the inaugural class of Phi Beta Kappa and was recognized with a "Mercer Bear" award for outstanding contributions to the university during his four years. Following graduation, Drew moved to Winston Salem, NC where he attended law school at Wake Forest University. During law school, Drew worked in the Elder Law Clinic, helping seniors navigate important decisions regarding...

Justin M. Scott is the founder of Radford Scott LLP, a boutique employment litigation firm representing both companies and individuals in employment disputes. Justin handles a wide-range of employment cases, including wage-and-hour cases involving claims of misclassification, unpaid overtime, unpaid minimum wage, off-the-clock claims, and other related allegations. He has substantial experience litigating such matters on a class, collective and individual basis, both on the plaintiff’s and defense side. He also frequently litigates harassment, discrimination, retaliation and failure-to accommodate claims under all major federal employment statutes, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act...

Angel Figueredo attended Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ where he received his B.S. in Accounting and graduated cum laude in 1981. Mr. Figueredo became a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant in New Jersey where he worked as an accountant for a CPA firm and Fortune 500 companies for 16 years until he graduated from law school in 1997. He attended law school at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, NJ and obtained his J.D in May of 1997. Immediately after graduating from law school he began working as a personal injury and workers’ compensation attorney,...

Tunde Akinyele has been practicing law in the Metropolitan Atlanta area for the past 13 years. He is a former Senior Assistant District Attorney with the DeKalb County District Attorney's office, where he handled serious criminal offenses including burglaries, armed robberies, sexual assault cases, crimes against children, white collar, and homicide cases. Tunde is an experienced trial lawyer and will aggressively defend your rights, with a strong criminal practice, including traffic offenses, misdemeanors, DUI, minor and major drug offenses, and minor and major felony cases. Our firm also has an immigration practice, including Family...

Partner at Kessler & Solomiany, LLC, Marvin Solomiany is an experienced family law attorney who focuses on high-income divorce cases. Solomiany has experience representing a variety of legal matters including athletes, entertainers, professionals, and Fortune 500 executives. In addition to representing clients across the state of Georgia, Solomiany frequently lectures on various state and national family law seminars.

J. Blake Ledbetter attended the University of Georgia, where he obtained a Bachelors in Business Administration-Finance in 2008 from the Terry College of Business. He attended law school at the Georgia State University School of Law from 2008-2011. Mr. Ledbetter was a member of the Business & Law Society at Georgia State. Mr. Ledbetter began working with Joseph Conoscienti & Associates as an intern in 2009. Mr. Ledbetter became a member of the Georgia Bar in 2012. After he graduated from Georgia State Law School, Mr. Ledbetter began working as an Associate with Joseph Conoscienti...

For more than 30 years, Thomas J. Ashenden has been dedicated to representing injured people who have been the victims of negligence. Ashenden & Associates, during that time, has been handling catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases arising from negligence involving automobiles, trucks colliding with automobiles, trucks colliding with other trucks, premises liability, medical negligence, hotel and apartment negligence due to inadequate security, and Workers’ Compensation claims. Mr. Ashenden has represented many clients who have been victimized by the negligence and gross negligence of tractor-trailer truck drivers. Some of the largest recoveries in his 30 years have come as a...

H. Glenn Fogle, Jr., the founding member and principal of The Fogle Law Firm, LLC, is in his twenty-fifth year in the field of Immigration and Nationality Law. Raised in the United Kingdom until he was fourteen, Mr. Fogle returned to the U.S. with his family to attend high school and college. Mr. Fogle is a member of the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeals of the Second Circuit, the Fourth Circuit, the Fifth Circuit, the Sixth Circuit, the Ninth Circuit and the Eleventh Circuit. He is a longtime member of the American...

Hirsch Criminal Defense, located in Atlanta, Georgia is primarily a criminal defense trial practice law firm. From criminal offenses such as drunk driving and other less severe traffic offenses, theft crimes, assault and battery, drug offenses, domestic violence charges and many others, I can help you. For over 10 years I have defended adults and children in a wide range of felony and misdemeanor criminal matters in Superior Court, State Court, Juvenile Court, and Municipal/Traffic Court. Getting arrested effects everyone. And, if you get arrested or find yourself under investigation, you need to know your legal rights...

Michael Greene & Associates have aggressively fought for the rights of their clients for 29 years in criminal defense cases. We offer affordable payment plans and will work for cases to be resolved as soon as possible and seek the most favorable outcomes. We will work with you to build a strong and compelling case. Michael Greene graduated law school from Atlanta's John Marshall Law in 1993 and has vast experience and success in state and federal cases. Whether you're charged with a drug related crime, DUI, aggravated assault, theft crime or traffic tickets, Michael will put our decades of experience to...

Alicia Mack is the founder of The Mack Law Firm, LLC, where she divides her practice between workers' compensation matters and motor vehicle accidents. From the firm's office in Atlanta, Georgia, Attorney Mack provides compassionate representation to injuried parties throughout the state.

Attorney Mack handles wrongful death, nursing home negligence, premises liability, auto-pedestrian accidents, animal attacks, trucking accidents, and motor vehicle crashes. She has been able to obtain significant results for her clients, whether through court verdicts or as a result of negotiating favorable settlement agreements with defendants and their insurance companies.

In her workers' compensation practice, Ms. Mack helps...

Brian Mendelsohn has spent his entire three-decade legal career as a criminal defense attorney, earning a reputation as one of Atlanta's top federal criminal trial lawyers. He has won more federal criminal trials than most attorneys in Georgia have even tried. From 1995 to 2023, Brian was with the Federal Defender Program for the Northern District of Georgia, serving 17 years as the First Assistant (Deputy Director) while supervising 27 trial lawyers and maintaining an active caseload. As a partner with the Mendelsohn Ertel Law Group, Brian works on state criminal cases in Georgia and federal criminal cases in...

Kimberly DeCarrera brings together legal and accounting fields to provide clients with advice and know-how as an unclaimed property adviser.

Providing legal services on unclaimed and abandoned property to Fortune 500 companies in diverse industries such as transportation and logistics, financial services, health care, retail, media, software and technology, and manufacturing.

• Single and multi-state audit defense for client companies (including audits led by third-party auditors such as Kelmar Associates, Innovative Advocates Group, Verus, Xerox/ACS)
• Audit Assessment Appeals and Litigation
• Comprehensive Compliance Strategies, including Canada and other foreign jurisdictions
• Interest Assessment Appeals
• Accounts Receivable Solutions...

Your Workers' Compensation Advocate! “What sets Andre apart from other attorneys is the way he cares about the people he represents. He treats them like they are members of his family and he won’t quit. When it comes to workers' compensation attorneys, he is one of the best." - Shean Williams, a partner in the Atlanta Cochran Firm ABOUT THE COCHRAN FIRM - The Cochran Firm Atlanta has a simple mission, to bring legal justice to the clients who have suffered personal injuries. Our partners are hand-picked by Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., and are committed to continuing his...

Attorney Thomas W. Pleasant is licensed to practice in North Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, and Tennessee. He focuses his practice on helping victims of catastrophic injury and their families in wrongful death matters. He assists in complicated nursing home abuse and neglect cases as well as medical malpractice, birth injuries, and traumatic brain injury cases. He is AV Preeminent Rated by Martindale-Hubbell for his high standards of client care. He is also listed in Super Lawyers®, has years of experience in jury and medical trials, and is committed to doing everything he can to achieve full and fair compensation for all...

Attorney Elizabeth Brandenburg has a unique perspective in defending her clients. For over six years, she has worked with a variety of clients from juveniles to adults accused of a variety of crimes from property crimes to violent offenses. Thanks to her extensive preparation and negotiations with district attorneys she has been successful in getting felony charges for both adults and juveniles charges dismissed.

Elizabeth has also successfully appealed cases in both state and federal courts from sentencing and trial issues to forfeitures. She has also been successful in habeas corpus, a unique kind of law where success is sometimes rare.

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Dan O’Connell has been representing injured workers in Georgia for over a decade. He has obtained millions of dollars in compensation for his clients and represented them in hearings and mediations across the state. Before devoting himself exclusively to representing claimants, Dan worked as a staff attorney and mediator for the Georgia State Board of Workers’ Compensation.

Dan has earned an AV Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, a distinction that is only given to attorneys whose peers confirm them as trustworthy, ethical, and highly-skilled in their area of practice. He has also been been selected to the Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Stars list,...

For the first six years of his law practice, Daniel defended doctors, nurses and hospitals in medical-malpractice cases. He decided to switch sides and represent individuals hurt or killed by the negligence of others. Since then, he has secured millions of dollars for his clients.

Daniel taught high school English as a Second Language before becoming a lawyer. He graduated with a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. He earned his J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Daniel lives in the Virginia-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta with his wife Casey, his daughter June, and his son Branch. They attend...

Led by Atlanta immigration attorney Jameel Manji, Manji Law was founded to help clients navigate the difficult and ever-changing immigration system in the United States. Manji Law supports clients with a wide-range of immigration issues including family immigration, removal defense, asylum/refugee, business immigration, naturalization, deferred action and TPS, and many more. When you’re up against the federal government, you need a passionate and effective immigration attorney. Jameel Manji is the man for the job.

If you’re looking for a passionate and caring Immigration attorney in Atlanta who won’t break the bank, Manji Law is a perfect choice. Look no further...