Attorney Roy Meeks, Pursley Lowery Meeks LLP, Atlanta, Georgia

R. Harold Meeks Jr.
Atlanta, Georgia


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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 collections and contract disputes. His current practice is divided among health care litigation, including medical malpractice defense, construction litigation, with a concentration in wholesaler/supplier representation, 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 and American Bar Associations, the State Bar of Georgia and the Lawyers Club of Atlanta 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, 1979; U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit; U.S. Federal Courts, 1979; U.S. Supreme Court, 1989

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:: Hughes Supply Co.; Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

Professional Associations and Memberships:: American Bar Association, 1979 - Present; Member; State Bar of Georgia, 1979 - Present; Member; Lawyers Club of Atlanta, 1985 - Present; Member; Atlanta Bar Association, 1979 - Present; Member

Fraternities/Sororities:: Phi Delta Phi

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