(Main Office)

Statement of Practice

General Practice, State and Federal Courts. Corporation, Insurance, Trusts, Probate and Estate Planning, Business Law and Taxation, Commercial, Real Estate Development and Real Estate Law and Purchase and Sale of Businesses, Criminal Defense, Domestic Relations, Government Law, Education Law, Election Law; Civil Litigation; Insurance Litigation.

Clients

GENERAL COUNSEL FOR: Albany Beverage Co. (Anheuser-Busch Distributor)
Albany-Dougherty Inner City Authority
Albany-Dougherty Payroll Development Authority
Harold and Sarah Wetherbee Foundation
Carlton Foundation
S& S Company of Georgia, Inc.
Hospital Authority of Albany - Dougherty County
James M. Barnett, Jr. Foundation, Inc
Covington Planter Company
Herbert P. Haley Farms, LLP
South Georgia Peanut Warehouse, LTD
Dougherty County Board of Education.

Representative Clients:

Regions Bank
Kimbrell-Stern, Inc.
Consolidated Loan Co.
State Auto Mutual Insurance Co.
Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co.
State Farm Insurance Companies: Transwaste, Inc.
Allstate Insurance Company
St. Paul Travelers Insurance Companies
Alfa Insurance Companies
General Casualty Insurance Companies
Montgomery Insurance Company
Cities of Ashburn, Dawson, Sylvester, Blakeley, Georgia and several other municipalities: Deep South Regional Waste Authority
Counties of Randolph, Baker, and Macon, Georgia
Georgia School Board Association Risk Management Claims Fund
Plantation Seed Company
Merck & Co.

Address

212 North Westover Boulevard
Albany, GA 31707, (Dougherty Co.)

Phone

Phone: 229-439-4000
Telecopier: 229-436-1417

PARTNERS OF FIRM

R. Edgar Campbell (Partner) born Albany, Georgia, April 7, 1938; admitted to bar, 1962, Georgia. Education: Emory-at-Oxford; Emory University (B.B.A., 1960); Mercer University (LL.B., 1963). Delta Theta Phi. Member: Dougherty Circuit (President, 1972-1973) and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Georgia (Member: Executive Committee, Young Lawyers Section, 1971-1972; Former Member, Review Panel, Disciplinary Committee). Practice Areas: General Trial Practice; Insurance Law; Personal Injury Law; Domestic Relations Law.Email: R. Edgar Campbell

Franklin T. (Tommy) Coleman,, III (Partner) born Albany, Georgia, April 4, 1948; admitted to bar, 1985, Georgia. Education: University of Georgia (A.B., magna cum laude, 1970; M.A., 1972); Woodrow Wilson College of Law (J.D., 1985). Phi Beta Kappa. Former Mayor, City of Albany, Georgia. Chairman, Governor's Local Governance Commission. Member: Dougherty Circuit Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia. Practice Areas: Education Law; Government; Election Law.Email: Franklin T. (Tommy) Coleman,, III

J. Huff Croxton, Jr. (Partner) born Columbus, Georgia, December 27, 1968; admitted to bar, 1994, Georgia. Education: Florida State University (B.S., magna cum laude, 1990) Phi Kappa Phi; Beta Gamma Sigma; University of Georgia (J.D., cum laude, 1994). Member, Editorial Board, Georgia Journal of Intellectual Property Law, 1993-1994. Member: State Bar of Georgia; Dougherty Circuit Bar Association. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Partnership Law; Taxation; Estate Planning; Probate; Contract Law; Business Transactions.Email: J. Huff Croxton, Jr.

George P. Donaldson, III (Partner) born Fort Benning Georgia, April 16, 1947; admitted to bar, 1972, Georgia. Education: Abraham Baldwin College (A.A., 1967); University of Georgia (B.A., 1969; J.D., 1972). Phi Alpha Delta. Member, Editorial Board, Georgia Law Review, 1970-1972. Faculty: National Criminal Defense College, 2001—; Bill Daniel Trial Practice Institute (GACDL), 2001—. Member: Dougherty Circuit (President, 1995-1996) and American Bar Associations; Georgia Indigent Defense Council (Secretary, 1989-1990; Chairman, 1990-1991); Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Sustaining Member; Vice-President, 1993-2000); National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. [Capt., USAR, 1972-1976]. Practice Areas: Trial Practice; Criminal Defense; Business Litigation; Domestic Relations.Email: George P. Donaldson, III

Keith T. Dorough (Partner) born Cordele, Georgia, October 29, 1954; admitted to bar, 1979, Georgia. Education: Mercer University (B.A., 1976); Emory University (J.D., 1979). Order of the Coif. Member: Dougherty Circuit Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia. Practice Areas: Real Estate Law; General Practice.Email: Keith T. Dorough

Richard W. Fields (Partner) born Macon, Georgia, May 16, 1949; admitted to bar, 1975, Georgia. Education: West Georgia College (A.B., 1972); University of Georgia (J.D., 1975). Pi Gamma Mu; Phi Alpha Delta. Member, Editorial Board, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, 1973-1974. Member: Dougherty Circuit and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Georgia; Georgia Defense Lawyers Association; Defense Research Institute; Georgia Banker's Association (Member, Bank Council Section). Practice Areas: Litigation; Workers Compensation Law; Banking Law; Insurance; Personal Injury.Email: Richard W. Fields

R. Kelly Raulerson (Partner) born Howell, Georgia, May 15, 1941; admitted to bar, 1965, Georgia; 1970, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Valdosta State College (B.S., 1963); University of Georgia (J.D., 1966). Blue Key; Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Alpha Delta. Member: Dougherty Circuit Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia. [Capt., JAGC, U.S. Army, 1966-1971]. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Insurance Litigation; Real Estate.Email: R. Kelly Raulerson

James E. Reynolds, Jr. (Partner) born Albany, Georgia, September 7, 1944; admitted to bar, 1970, Georgia; 1972, Florida. Education: University of the South (A.B., 1966); University of Alabama; Emory University (J.D., 1970). Phi Delta Phi. Member: Dougherty Circuit (President, 1997-1998) and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Georgia (Member: Board of Governors, 1977-1984; Sections on Taxation and Fiduciary Law); American College of Trust and Estate Counsel; Emory University Law School Council. Practice Areas: Estate Planning and Administration; Agricultural Real Estate Transactions; Industrial Real Estate Transactions; Commercial Real Estate Transactions; Business Law; Taxation; Corporate Law; Buying and Selling of Businesses.Email: James E. Reynolds, Jr.

Edgar B. Wilkin, Jr. (Partner) born Donalsonville, Georgia, October 18, 1940; admitted to bar, 1966, Georgia. Education: Emory University (B.A., 1962; LL.B., 1965). Bryan Society; Phi Delta Phi. Member: Dougherty Circuit Bar Association (President, 1972); State Bar of Georgia (Member, Board of Governors, 1972-1976); Georgia Defense Lawyers Association; Defense Research Institute; American Board of Trial Advocates. Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Insurance Litigation.Email: Edgar B. Wilkin, Jr.

ASSOCIATES

Franklin T. (Flin) Coleman, IV (Associate) born Albany, Georgia; admitted to bar, 2000, Georgia. Education: Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S., 1977); University of Mississippi (J.D., 2000). Member: Dougherty Circuit Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia. Practice Areas: Local Government Law; Education Law; Civil Litigation.Email: Franklin T. (Flin) Coleman, IV

Misty Garrett Haskins (Associate) born Macon, Georgia, June 21, 1976; admitted to bar, 2001, Georgia. Education: Georgia State College & University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1998); Mercer University, Walter F. George School of Law (J.D., 2001). Phi Alpha Delta; Mercer Law Review; Judicial Clerk to Honorable Hugh P. Thompson, Georgia Supreme Court, 2000. Author: "Ohler v. United States: Defendants Waive Appellate Review by Reducing the Sting of Prior Conviction Impeachment Evidence, 52 Mercer Law Review 789 (2001); Member: Dougherty Circuit and American Bar Associations; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Practice Areas: Criminal Defense; Domestic Relations; Trial Practice; Civil Litigation.Email: Misty Garrett Haskins

DECEASED

H. Holcombe Perry, Jr. (1923-2002).

Jesse W. Walters (1919-2003).

OF COUNSEL

James V. Davis (Of Counsel) born Lexington, North Carolina; admitted to bar, 1941, Georgia. Education: Young Harris Junior College (1936-1937); Emory University Lamar School of Law (J.D., 1941). Representative, Georgia General Assembly, 1949-1950. Mayor, City of Albany, 1964-1968. City Attorney, City of Albany, 1968-1995. Member: Dougherty Circuit Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia; American Bar Association.