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DAVID M. CONNER is a principal in The Conner Law Group, P.C., which has offices in both Savannah and Jesup, Georgia. He is a highly-touted litigation lawyer, specializing in business litigation and related business organization and planning and prosecution of catastrophic personal injury cases. Mr. Conner is recognized as a "Georgia Super Lawyer - Rising Star" (and has been since 2006), "Best Lawyer" (since 2007), and Georgia Trend's "Legal Elite." He is also a fellow the Litigation Counsel of America, a collection of the country's top 3,500 litigation lawyers. Similarly, Mr. Conner is an invited member of the Council on Litigation Management, a consortium of the nation's top business and legal professionals dedicated to the promotion of integrity in dispute resolution. He practices throughout Georgia and South Carolina, but focuses his practice principally in South Georgia, south of Macon. (Savannah and Atlanta locations) JULYE JOHNS is a partner with Huff Powell & Bailey, LLC, where she focuses her practice on healthcare litigation and the defense of professional liability lawsuits involving hospitals and physicians. Her experience also includes medical device/pharmaceutical litigation, products liability, and nursing home defense. Since joining Huff Powell & Bailey, LLC in 2004, Ms. Johns has contributed to the success of cases involving death and catastrophic injury, including matters involving allegations of medical negligence before both federal and state courts. Ms. Johns attended the University of South Carolina Honors College, where she graduated magna cum laude. She was the recipient of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award and was awarded membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Ms. Johns earned her J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law, where she served as the president of Phi Delta Phi. She also served as the Executive Associate Justice of the Vanderbilt Moot Court Board, and she won the Best Brief Award in the Vanderbilt Intramural Moot Court Competition. Ms. Johns is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia, the Atlanta Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute, and the Lawyers Club of Atlanta. She has served as a barrister in the Joseph Henry Lumpkin American Inn of Court and as a Guardian ad Litem with the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation. Members of the legal community selected her as a "Rising Star" in the 2005, 2006, and 2009 Georgia Super Lawyers listing published by Atlanta Magazine . In 2009, Ms. Johns was selected as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. (Atlanta location) CARLTON E. JOYCE is a partner with Bouhan Williams & Levy LLP, where he practices in the firm's Litigation Practice Group, and has been associated with the Firm since 1993. Mr. Joyce's litigation practice concentrates in the areas of aviation law, products liability, insurance defense, medical malpractice defense, and business litigation. He is admitted to practice in all federal and state courts in Georgia, the U. S. Supreme Court, and serves on the Federal Court Advisory Panel for the Southern District of Georgia. Before joining Bouhan Williams & Levy LLP in 1993, Mr. Joyce practiced for three years with the Atlanta law firm of Long, Weinberg, Ansley & Wheeler. Mr. Joyce graduated from Emory University with a degree in Psychology and a minor in Political Science, and earned his J.D. degree from Southern Methodist University School of Law in Dallas, Texas. While in college, Mr. Joyce was an officer in the Sigma Chi fraternity and was active in the student government, serving two terms in the Emory University Senate. During the summer of 1985, he studied Comparative Constitutional Law at Trinity College in Oxford, England. In law school, he participated in Moot Court and served as the law school representative to the Southern Methodist University Senate. Mr. Joyce has tried more than 50 cases both in Federal and State Courts and appeared before the Georgia Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals and the11th Circuit Court of Appeals in his 20 years of law practice. He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia's Litigation and Aviation Law sections, the Savannah Bar Association, the Georgia Defense Lawyers Association and the Defense Research Institute. He is past president of the Emory University Board of Governors and a member of the Emory University Board of Visitors. In addition, he is past Chairman of the Savannah Sports Council. In 2003, he was selected by the Business Report & Journal as one of the top 40 business leaders in Savannah under age 40. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America, Georgia's Super Lawyers and Georgia Trend magazine as one of Georgia’s top litigators. (Savannah location) BRIAN E. KRAPF is a partner with the Lasky Law Group where he has practiced plaintiff's personal injury law for the past 20 years. While his practice includes a variety of catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, his emphasized areas of practice are nursing home abuse, premises liability and traumatic brain injury. Mr. Krapf is a frequent seminar lecturer on litigation topics included within his practice areas and has also written several related articles. Mr. Krapf was voted one of the "Top Twenty Under Forty" local community business leaders by the editors of the Savannah News Press. He is a member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, the Savannah Trial Lawyers Association, and The American Association for Justice, the Georgia Bar, the District of Columbia Bar and the Brain Injury Institute. Mr. Krapf earned his B.A. degree from The University of Georgia and his J.D. degree from the Walter F. George School of Law of Mercer University. (Savannah location) JOHN B. MANLY is an attorney with Bouhan Williams & Levy LLP, practicing in the areas of insurance defense, medical malpractice defense and commercial litigation. Prior to joining Bouhan, Williams & Levy, he served as an Assistant District Attorney for the Augusta Judicial Circuit. Mr. Manly is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and is admitted to practice in the Georgia Supreme Court, the Georgia Court of Appeals, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. A native Georgian, Mr. Manly graduated from The University of Georgia with degrees in Political Science and Religion and earned his J.D. degree The University of Georgia Lumpkin School of Law. During law school, Mr. Manly clerked for Judge Anne E. Barnes of the Georgia Court of Appeals. (Savannah location) WILBUR D. OWENS III is a partner with Owens & Mulherin, Attorneys at Law, where he practices exclusively in the area of representing plaintiffs in personal injury and wrongful death claims, as well as handling class actions for plaintiffs. His primary interests are products liability, medical malpractice, and serious personal injury and automobile/tractor-trailer accidents. Mr. Owens worked for Bouhan, Williams & Levy, LLP from 1986 to 2000 in the area of civil litigation. He is a member of the Savannah Trial Lawyers Association, the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, and American Association for Justice, the Georgia Bar Association, and the Savannah Bar Association. Mr. Owens graduated from Vanderbilt University, cum laude, and earned his J.D. degree, cum laude, from The University of Georgia Law School. (Savannah location) MARK V. SPIX is the owner of the Atlanta law firm of Mark V. Spix, P.C. He practices primarily in trial practice involving criminal cases, licensing cases and regulated businesses. Mr. Spix earned both his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Toledo, and is a member of numerous professional organizations including the Atlanta (member, sections on Patent, Trademark and Copyright and Criminal Law), Ohio State and American bar associations, the State Bar of Georgia, and the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Mr. Spix is an adjunct professor of law at Georgia State University College of Law and a certified teacher for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. He is a certified mediator and arbitrator through the Georgia Commission on Dispute Resolution. Mr. Spix is a frequent speaker and writer on various legal issues. He has served as lead or co-counsel in a number of high-profile court cases. Mr. Spix has been a frequent expert commentator for NBC, FOX, CBS, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution and the Fulton County Daily Report. He has appeared numerous times on programs such as Telemedia, Fan Radio, Dateline, Investigative Reports, Court TV, Catherine Cryer, Rivera Live, Sheppard Smith Live, Paula Zahn, The Edge and the Today Show. (Atlanta location)
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