Member at the firm Johnson & Ward
Areas of Practice
Personal Injury; Brain Injury; Spinal Injury; Wrongful Death; Automobile Negligence; False Arrest; False Imprisonment; Police Brutality; Libel and Slander; Medical Malpractice; Circumcision Damage; Wrongful Circumcision; Genital Injury; Dental Malpractice; Nursing Malpractice; Hospital Liability; Hospital Negligence; Legal Malpractice; Premises Liability; Toxic Torts; Products Liability; Federal Tort Claims; Government Tort Liability; Fraud; Credit Fraud; Commercial Fraud; Insurance Fraud; Insurance Bad Faith; Civil Rights; Civil Rights Section 1983; Sex Discrimination; Employment Litigation; Business Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Business Torts; Collections; Copyright Litigation; College and University Law; Healthcare Fraud Litigation; False Claims Act Litigation; Medicare Fraud and Abuse; Land Use Litigation; Family Law; General Litigation; Contractual Matters; Trials and Appeals; Mediation
Admitted
1979, Georgia; Georgia Court of Appeals; Supreme Court of Georgia; U.S. District Court, Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits; U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
University of Virginia, J.D., 1979
College
University of Virginia, B.A., with distinction, 1972
Membership
Atlanta and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Georgia; The American Association for Justice; Georgia Trial Lawyers Association; Lawyers Club of Atlanta; Old War Horse Lawyers Club.
Biography
Phi Eta Sigma; Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Delta Phi. Author: "Legal Remedies for Penile Torts," The Compleat Mother, Winter, 1995; "Some Thoughts on Legal Remedies," Ch. 39 in Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999; "Penile Torts in the Courts," Ch. 6 in Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society," Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2004. Presentations: "Strategies for Litigation," Eighth International Symposium on Circumcision and Human Rights, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, September 2-4, 2004; "Winning and Losing on the Circuit," Ninth International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, August 24-26, 2006. Previous employment: Associate: Davis, Matthews & Quigley, Atlanta, Georgia, 1979-1982; Powell, Goldstein, Fraser & Murphy, Atlanta, Georgia, 1981-1985. Shareholder: Sparrow, Eidson & Llewellyn, East Point, Georgia, 1985-1987; Eidson & Llewellyn, East Point, Georgia, 1987-1988. Sole Practitioner, Atlanta, Georgia, 1988-1991. Partner, Llewellyn & Swanson, Atlanta, Georgia, 1991-1994. Sole practitioner, Atlanta and Conyers, Georgia, 1994-2005.
Born
Salem, Massachusetts, November 30, 1950
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