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| Roy Harold (Hal) Meeks, Jr. has tried over one hundred bench and jury trials and binding arbitrations in his career in substantive areas including medical malpractice defense, securities defense, construction claims, commercial and contract disputes. His current practice is divided among health care litigation, including medical malpractice defense, construction litigation, and a myriad of other disputes facing business clients. He also has extensive experience representing securities firms and individual brokers and has often litigated employment covenant, trade secret, and other white-collar employment disputes. Mr. Meeks is a frequent speaker to business groups on lien law topics and commercial and contract dispute remedies, and is a speaker at legal seminars sponsored by the Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education. He has written for the Georgia State Bar Journal and other publications on litigation issues affecting businesses.
Mr. Meeks is a Georgia native who attended the University of Georgia, where he received his B.A. degree in English, cum laude, in 1976, and the University of Georgia School of Law, where he served as Senior Editor of the Georgia Law Review and graduated in 1979.
Upon graduation, he joined the Atlanta firm of Peterson, Young, Self & Asselin where he was made a partner in 1986. He left that firm in 1989 to become a founding partner of his present firm.
He is a member of the Atlanta Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia, the Lawyers Club of Atlanta, the Defense Research Institute, the Georgia Defense Lawers Association and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the Fifth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the United States Supreme Court.
- Litigation Percentage:
- 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
- Bar Admissions:
- Georgia, 1979
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Education:
- University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia, 1979
J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence Law Review: Georgia Law Review, Editorial Board Member, 1977 - 1978 Law Review: Georgia Law Review, Senior Editor, 1978 - 1979
- University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1976
B.A., Bachelor of Arts Honors: Cum Laude Honors: General Honors, Program for Superior Students Honors: Omicron Delta Kappa Honors: Blue Key
- Published Works:
- Usurpation of Corporate Opportunities: Liabilities of the Former Officer or Director, (Co-Author with David C. Jensen) 18 Ga. St. B.J. 150, May, 1982
- Georgia Door-Closing Statute: Who Bears the Burden? 24 Ga. St. B.J.141, February, 1988
- Representative Clients:
- Medical Center of Central Georgia
- SunTrust Investment Securities, Inc.
- Home Depot USA, Inc.
- Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgia, Inc.
- CareSouth Home Health Services, Inc.
- Classes/Seminars Taught:
- Fiduciary Responsibility: Some Basic Principles; Business Torts, ICLE, November 2, 1989
- Subcontractor/Materialmen Lien Law, Atlanta Bar CLE, March 2, 1997
- Lien Rights in Georgia, ICLE Lien Seminar, May 23, 2002
- Liens on Tenant Improvements; Construction Mechanics' & Materialmen's Liens, ICLE, May 22, 2003
- Construction, Mechanics' & Materialmen's Liens, ICLE, May 2, 2004
- Protecting the Owner in a Lien Dispute; Construction, Mechanics' & Materialmen's Liens, ICLE, May 6, 2005
- Perfecting the Construction Lien; Construction, Mechanics' & Materialmen's Liens, ICLE, May 19, 2006
- Statutory Requirements for Claiming and Perfecting a Construction Lien, ICLE Seminar, May 18, 2007
- Thomas v. MCCG; The Decision and Its Implications, 23rd Annual Medical Malpractice Institute, November 29, 2007 - December 1, 2007
- Professional Associations and Memberships:
- American Bar Association, 1979 - 2008
- Member
- State Bar of Georgia, 1979 - Present
- Member
- Lawyers Club of Atlanta, 1985 - Present
- Member
- Atlanta Bar Association, 1979 - Present
- Member
- The Defense Research Institute
- Member
- The Georgia Defense Lawyers Association
- Member
- Fraternities/Sororities:
- Phi Delta
- Phi Delta Theta
- Gridiron Society
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