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| | Address | | Synovus Centre, Third Floor, 1111 Bay Avenue | | Columbus, Georgia 31901 | | (Muscogee Co.) | | | |
| | Contact Information | | Phone: 706-324-0251 | | Telecopier: 706-323-7519 | | Visit Our Website | | http://www.columbusgalaw.com | | | | Send Us Email |  |
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(Main Office)
| Page, Scrantom, Sprouse,
Tucker & Ford, P.C. practices in the following areas of law:
General Civil Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Insurance, Banking, Tax, Corporate, Commercial, Real Estate, Probate, Estate Planning, Employment and Labor Law. Trials, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Business Planning, Securities, Municipal Finance, Bankruptcy and Franchising, Trademark Law. | | Year Established: 1904 | | Firm Size: 29 | Clients:
GENERAL COUNSEL FOR: Columbus Bank and Trust Company; The Housing Authority of Columbus, Georgia; Columbus Building Authority; The Concrete Co.; Development Authority of Columbus, Georgia; Pezold Management Associates, Inc. (McDonald's Restaurants, Columbus, Phenix City and La Grange); Public Service Data, Inc.; Downtown Development Authority of Columbus, Georgia; Development Authority of Talbot County; Valley Partnership Joint Development Authority; NASCAR Cafe Restaurants; Public Service Telephone Company; Callaway Gardens Resort, Inc.; Ida Cason Callaway Foundation; Foley Products Co.; Georgia First Peoples Bank; Denim North America, LLC.; Carmike Cinemas, Inc.; The National Infantry Foundation, Inc.; Columbus Economic Development Corporation | Representative Clients:
Synovus Financial Corp.; Total System Services, Inc.; W. C. Bradley Co.; Aflac Incorporated; Synovus Trust Company; MeadWestvaco Coated Board, Inc.; Swift Textiles, LLC; American Textile Marketing, Inc. (Meritas Yarns); Harvey Lumber Company, Inc.; Schuster Enterprises, Inc. (Burger King); Crown Central Petroleum Co.; Town of Pine Mountain, Georgia; City of Hamilton, Georgia; Doctors' Hospital; Master Wall, Inc.; Pastoral Institute, Inc.; Striffer-Hamby Mortuary, Inc.; B & B Beverage Co.; Country Club Apartments; Ebco Battery Co.; Historic Columbus Foundation, Inc.; George C. Woodruff Co.; Carl Gregory Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep, Inc.; Georgia Packaging Inc.; Callaway Chemical Co.; Greater Columbus Sports and Events Council, Inc.; RiverCenter, Inc.; Precision Components International, Inc.; Columbus Foundry, Inc.; Intermet; Rivertown Ford, Inc.; Freeway Ford, Inc.; OBGYN Associates, P.C.; Horizons Diagnostics, LLC; Transcom Payment Services, Inc.; Standard Concrete Products, Inc.; Sandman Inc.; Pratt & Whitney; Knox Pest Control; Golden's Foundry & Machine Co.; GAB Robins; Atmos Energy Corp.; Management Health Systems, Inc.; The Columbus Clinic, P.C.; The Players Connection, Inc.; Merchant e-Solutions, Inc.; Triangle Wholesalers, Inc.; Hands on Columbus, Inc.; Columbus South, Inc.; B&H Asphalt, Inc.; Baby's Dream Furniture, Inc.; Masterbuilt Manufacturing, Inc.; Char-Broil, LLC; Carpenter's Way Ranch, Inc.; Goodwill Industries of the Southern Rivers, Inc.; The Growing Room, Inc.; House Buyer Network, Inc.; Open Door Community House, Inc.; Teen Advisors, Inc.; Trapnell Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep |
APPROVED ATTORNEYS FOR: Fidelity National Title Insurance Company; Lawyers Title Insurance Corp.; Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co. |
REPRESENTING INSUREDS OF: Chubb/Pacific Indemnity Group; CIGNA Insurance Company; GEICO; Gladfelter Claims; Liberty Mutual Insurance Company; Southern General Insurance Company; State Farm Fire & Casualty Company; State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company; Utica National Insurance Company. | Reference:
Columbus Bank and Trust Co. | | W. Marion Page (Member) born Columbus, Georgia, 1917; admitted to bar, 1938, Georgia. Education: University of Georgia (J.D., 1939). Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Delta Phi. Member: State Bar of Georgia (Board of Governors, 1964-1971); Columbus (President, 1946-1947) and American Bar Associations. Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers. [Major, U.S. Army, 1941-1946]. Practice Areas: Business Law; Banking Law; Commercial Law. Email: W. Marion Page | | W. G. Scrantom, Jr. (Member) born Rochester, New York, June 2, 1932; admitted to bar, 1954, Georgia. Education: Stetson University (B.A., 1953); University of Georgia (LL.B., 1955). Phi Alpha Delta; Omicron Delta Kappa. Member, Student Editorial Board, 1955 and Editor-in-Chief, 1955, Georgia Law Review. The Best Lawyers of America, 1999—. Member: State Bar of Georgia; Columbus (President, 1968-1969) and American Bar Associations; Georgia Defense Lawyers Association (President, 1972); International Association of Insurance Counsel. Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers (State Chairman, 1988-1989); American Bar Foundation. Practice Areas: Commercial Law; Civil Practice; Personal Injury Law; Civil Litigation. Email: W. G. Scrantom, Jr. | | J. Edward Sprouse (Member) born Clarksville, Tennessee, July 11, 1943; admitted to bar, 1971, Georgia. Education: Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S., 1965); University of Georgia (J.D., cum laude, 1971). Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Delta Phi. Executive Editor, Georgia Law Review, 1970-1971. Author: "Consent Decrees and Treble Damages: More Effective Anti-Trust Enforcement," 4 Georgia Law Review 592, 1970. Co-author: "Siegel v. Chicken Delight: Clarification of the Legality of Franchise Tying Arrangements," 5 Georgia Law Review 151, 1970. Member: Columbus and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Georgia; National Association of Bond Lawyers. Practice Areas: Business Law; Corporate Law; Municipal Finance; Estate Planning. Email: J. Edward Sprouse | | William L. Tucker (Member) born Columbus, Georgia, March 22, 1946; admitted to bar, 1974, Georgia. Education: Emory University (B.A., 1968); University of Georgia (J.D., 1973). Member, Editorial Board, Georgia Law Review, 1971-1973. Past Chairman, Tripartite Governing Committee for Indigent Defense. Member: State Bar of Georgia; Columbus Bar Association (Past President); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. [U.S. Army, Infantry, 1968-1971]. Practice Areas: Personal Injury; Products Liability; Commercial Civil Trials; Employment Law. Email: William L. Tucker | | Charles H. Ford, Jr. (Member) born Edison, Georgia, June 20, 1944; admitted to bar, 1975, Georgia and Alabama. Education: Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S., 1968; M.S., 1969); University of Georgia (J.D., magna cum laude, 1975). Tau Beta Pi; Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Eta Sigma. Member, Georgia Law Review, 1973-1974. Member: State Bar of Georgia; Alabama State Bar; American Bar Association; Columbus Lawyers Club. [1st Lt., Infantry, U.S. Army, 1969-1971]. Practice Areas: Taxation; Business Law; Estate Planning; Real Property. Email: Charles H. Ford, Jr. | | E. Lowry Reid, Jr. (Member) born Charlotte, North Carolina, May 4, 1940; admitted to bar, 1965, Georgia. Education: Davidson College (A.B., 1962); Duke University (LL.B., 1965). Phi Delta Phi. Member, Duke Law Journal, 1963-1965. Member: State Bar of Georgia (Chairperson, Fiduciary Law Section, 2000-2001); Columbus (President, 1978-1979) and American Bar Associations. Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. [Capt., USA, 1965-1967]. Practice Areas: Real Property; Wills; Estate Planning. Email: E. Lowry Reid, Jr. | | Marcus B. Calhoun, Jr. (Member) born Atlanta, Georgia, April 8, 1942; admitted to bar, 1972, Georgia. Education: United States Naval Academy (B.S., 1964); University of Georgia (J.D., magna cum laude, 1972). Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Delta Phi. Notes Editor, Georgia Law Review, 1971-1972. Author: "Jus Accrescendi and Joint Bank Accounts; A Look at the Georgia Story," 7 Georgia State Bar Journal 370, 1971. State Registered General Mediator. Member: Columbus and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Georgia. [With U.S. Navy, active duty, 1964-1969; LCDR, USNR]. Practice Areas: Corporations Law; Employment Law; Business Litigation. Email: Marcus B. Calhoun, Jr. | | Cecil M. Cheves (Member) born Miami, Florida, August 5, 1949; admitted to bar, 1974, Georgia; 1975, Alabama. Education: University of Georgia (B.B.A., 1971); Cumberland School of Law of Samford University (J.D., 1974); Emory University (LL.M., in Taxation, 1987). Cumberland Moot Court Board. Winner of Gordon T. Saad Moot Court Competition, 1972. Co-Author: "Federal Taxation - Eleventh Circuit Survey," 53 Mercer Law Review 1457, 2001. Counsel, Democratic National Committee, 1978-1980. Member: State Bar of Georgia (Chairman, Taxation Section, 1990); Alabama State Bar; Columbus Bar Association (President, 1995). [Lt., U.S. Air Force, 1974]. Practice Areas: Taxation; Estate Planning; Business Law; Health Law; Civil Litigation. Email: Cecil M. Cheves | | J. Ronald Mullins, Jr. (Member) born La Grange, Georgia, March 5, 1951; admitted to bar, 1976, Georgia. Education: University of Georgia (B.A., magna cum laude, 1973; J.D., 1976). Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi. Member: Order of the Barristers; National Moot Court Team; International Moot Court Team. City Attorney for Pine Mountain, Georgia, 1985—. Member: Columbus Bar Association (President, 2000-2001); State Bar of Georgia; Georgia Defense Lawyers Association; Defense Research Institute. Practice Areas: Insurance Defense; Personal Injury; Litigation; Local Government Law; Probate. Email: J. Ronald Mullins, Jr. | | Russell E. Hinds (Member) born Indianapolis, Indiana, July 25, 1956; admitted to bar, 1981, Alabama; 1983, Georgia. Education: University of Alabama (B.S., in Accounting, 1978); Cumberland School of Law of Samford University (J.D., 1981); University of Florida (LL.M. in Taxation, 1982). Delta Theta Phi. Cumberland Moot Court Board, 1980-1981. Associate Editor, Cumberland Law Review, 1979-1981. Co-Author: "Federal Taxation-Eleventh Circuit Survey," 53 Mercer Law Review 1457, 2001. Member: Alabama State Bar; State Bar of Georgia (Chairperson, Taxation Section, 1992-1993); Columbus (President-Elect) and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Taxation; Estate Planning; Finance; Corporate Law. Email: Russell E. Hinds | | David A. Siegel (Member) born Norwalk, Ohio, November 6, 1960; admitted to bar, 1986, Georgia. Education: Wake Forest University (B.A., cum laude, 1983); Mercer University (J.D., 1986). Phi Delta Phi; Beta Beta Beta. Member: State Bar of Georgia; Columbus Bar Association. Practice Areas: Civil Practice; Insurance Defense; Personal Injury Law. Email: David A. Siegel | | Allan E. Kamensky (Member) born Columbus, Georgia, September 12, 1961; admitted to bar, 1986, Georgia. Education: Tulane University (B.A., 1983); University of Georgia (J.D., 1986). Member: Columbus and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Georgia. Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate; Residential Real Estate; Zoning; Corporate Law; Banking Law. Email: Allan E. Kamensky | | David A. Buehler (Member) born Bloomington, Indiana, December 15, 1963; admitted to bar, 1990, Georgia. Education: Georgia State University (B.A., 1987); Mercer University (J.D., 1990). Member: Columbus Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia. Practice Areas: Estate Planning Law; Taxation of Gifts, Trusts and Estates; Business Law; Corporate Law; Creditors Rights. Email: David A. Buehler | | Virgil Ted Theus (Member) born Augusta, Georgia, February 25, 1965; admitted to bar, 1990, Georgia. Education: Columbus College; Southern College (B.A., cum laude, 1987), Phi Alpha Theta; University of Georgia (J.D., 1990). Member: Columbus Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia. Practice Areas: Insurance Defense; Workers Compensation; Personal Injury; Commercial Litigation; Professional Liability; Probate. Email: Virgil Ted Theus | | James C. Clark, Jr. (Member) born Columbus, Georgia, March 26, 1965; admitted to bar, 1991, Georgia. Education: Georgia Institute of Technology (B.M.E., 1987); Mercer University (J.D., cum laude, 1991). Associate Editor, Legal Eagle. Member, Mercer University Law Review, 1989-1990. Member: State Bar of Georgia (Executive Council, Younger Lawyers Section); Columbus Bar Association; Joseph H. Lumpkin American Inn of Court (Barrister, 1995-1997). Practice Areas: Products Liability; Personal Injury Law; Civil Litigation; Employment Law; Employment Litigation; Landlord and Tenant Law. Email: James C. Clark, Jr. | | Angela M. Hicks (Member) born Columbus, Georgia, December 21, 1967; admitted to bar, 1993, Georgia; 1994, Alabama. Education: Columbus College (B.S., summa cum laude, 1989); Mercer University (J.D., magna cum laude, 1993); Columbus State University (M.P.A., 1996). Phi Kappa Phi. Brainerd Currie Honor Society. Member, Intrastate Moot Court Competition. Eleventh Circuit Survey Editor, Mercer Law Review. Member: State Bar of Georgia; Alabama State Bar; American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Commercial Transactions; Banking Law; Real Estate. Email: Angela M. Hicks | | Jerald L. Watts (Member) born Gainesville, Georgia, December 18, 1968; admitted to bar, 1996, Georgia. Education: University of Virginia (B.A., 1991); University of Georgia (J.D., cum laude, M.B.A., 1996). Member: Columbus Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia; American Intellectual Property Law Association. Practice Areas: Corporate Planning; Taxation; Acquisitions and Dispositions; Contract Law; Commercial Lending; Franchise Law; Trademark Law. Email: Jerald L. Watts | | Robert M. McKenna (Member) born Ft. Hood, Texas, October 30, 1964; admitted to bar, 1996, Georgia. Education: Columbus College (B.B.A., 1989); Georgia State University (J.D., 1996). Member: Columbus Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia. Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate; Business Law; Corporate Law; Finance; Banking Law; Zoning Law; Leasing Law; Estate Planning. Email: Robert M. McKenna | | Kenneth E. Evans, Jr. (Member) born Columbus, Georgia, November 12, 1971; admitted to bar, 1996, Georgia and Alabama. Education: Columbus College (B.B.A., magna cum laude, 1993); Mercer University (J.D., cum laude, 1996). Phi Kappa Phi. Brainerd Currie Honor Society. Member, Mercer Law Review. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award for Legal Writing I. Member: State Bar of Georgia; Alabama State Bar; Columbus Lawyers Club. Practice Areas: Commercial and Residential Real Estate; Wills; Probate; Corporate Law. Email: Kenneth E. Evans, Jr. | | Thomas F. Gristina (Member) born New York, N.Y., January 17, 1970; admitted to bar, 1995, Virginia; 1996, District of Columbia; 2002, Georgia. Education: Duke University (B.A., 1992); College of William & Mary (J.D., 1995). Member: State Bar of Georgia; Virginia State Bar; District of Columbia Bar. Practice Areas: Complex Litigation; Telecommunications Litigation; Medical Malpractice Defense; Personal Injury Litigation. Email: Thomas F. Gristina | | Robert C. Brand, Jr. (Member) born Marietta, Georgia, February 7, 1972; admitted to bar, 1997, Georgia. Education: Mercer University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1994; J.D., 1997). Member, Mercer Moot Court Board. Member, Mercer Law Review. Author, "United States v. Armstrong: Permissible Prosecutorial Discretion?" 48 Mercer Law Review 1309, 1997. Member: Columbus and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Georgia. Practice Areas: Litigation; Labor and Employment; Bankruptcy; Banking Law. Email: Robert C. Brand, Jr. | | Matthew J. Landreau (Member) born Atlanta, Georgia, February 8, 1971; admitted to bar, 2000, Louisiana; 2004, Alabama; 2008, Georgia. Education: Auburn University (B.A., 1993); Loyola University School of Law (J.D., 2000). Member: International Environmental Law Moot Court team; Moot Court Board. Member: Alabama State Bar; Louisiana State Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia. Practice Areas: Class Action Defense; Commercial Litigation; Products Liability. Email: Matthew J. Landreau | | Joseph A. Sillitto (Member) born Buffalo, New York, November 21, 1975; admitted to bar, 2001, Georgia. Education: Vanderbilt University (B.A., cum laude, 1998); Georgia State University (J.D., cum laude, 2001). Member: Columbus Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia. Practice Areas: Wills; Trusts and Estates; Real Estate. Email: Joseph A. Sillitto | | ASSOCIATES | | Linda D. Nguyen (Associate) born Decatur, Georgia, September 5, 1976; admitted to bar, 2003, Georgia; 2005, Alabama. Education: University of Georgia (B.A., 1999); Mercer University School of Law (J.D., 2003). Member: Columbus and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Georgia; Alabama State Bar. Practice Areas: Lender Law; Real Estate; Commercial Transactions; Zoning Law; Residential Real Estate. Email: Linda D. Nguyen | | Travis C. Hargrove (Associate) born Charleston, South Carolina, December 15, 1978; admitted to bar, 2004, Georgia; 2006, Alabama. Education: Auburn University (B.A., magna cum laude, 2001); Mercer University (J.D., magna cum laude, 2004). Member, Moot Court Board, 2003-2004. Member, Brainerd Currie Honor Society. Member, Mercer Law Review, 2002-2004. Member: State Bar of Georgia; Columbus Bar Association; Alabama State Bar. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Civil Litigation; Governmental Liability. Email: Travis C. Hargrove | | Chandler W. Riley (Associate) born Newport News, Virginia, October 27, 1978; admitted to bar, 2005, Georgia; 2006, Alabama. Education: University of Georgia (B.S., cum laude, with honors, 2001); Emory University School of Law (J.D., 2005). Member: State Bar of Georgia; Alabama State Bar; Columbus Bar Association; Columbus Younger Lawyers Club. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Copyright; Trademarks. Email: Chandler W. Riley | | April H. Hocutt (Associate) born Columbus, Georgia, March 21, 1980; admitted to bar, 2006, Georgia; 2007, Alabama. Education: Auburn University (B.S., magna cum laude, 2001); University of Alabama (J.D., 2006). Member: State Bar of Georgia; Alabama State Bar; Columbus Bar Association; Georgia Association for Women Lawyers. Practice Areas: Real Estate; Corporate Law. Email: April H. Hocutt | | Adam R. Pease (Associate) born Columbus, Georgia, October 6, 1980; admitted to bar, 2006, Georgia; 2007, Alabama. Education: Birmingham-Southern College (B.S., 2003); Cumberland School of Law of Samford University (J.D., 2006). Member: Columbus Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia; Alabama State Bar; Columbus Younger Lawyers Club. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Business Law; Taxation. Email: Adam R. Pease | | Lauren K. Dimitri (Associate) born Columbus, Georgia, 1981; admitted to bar, 2007, Georgia. Education: University of Georgia (B.A., magna cum laude, 2004); University of Georgia School of Law (J.D., 2007). Member: Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2005-2007; Student Bar Association, 2004-2007; Women Law Student Association, 2004-2007; Mediator, State of Georgia: Registered Neutral, General Mediation. Member: Columbus and American (Member, Younger Lawyers Division) Bar Associations; State Bar of Georgia; Georgia Association for Women Lawyers. Practice Areas: Litigation. Email: Lauren K. Dimitri | | Kirsten C. Stevenson (Associate) born May 17, 1976; admitted to bar, 2003, California; 2006, Texas; 2008, Georgia; U.S. District Court, Central and Northern Districts of California; U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas; U.S. District Court, Middle and Northern Districts Georgia; Supreme Court of Georgia; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. Education: University of California, Irvine (B.A., French and Comparative Literature, 1998); University of Southern California Law School (J.D., 2002). Member: Member: State Bar of California; Los Angeles County Bar Association; State Bar of Texas; State Bar of Georgia. Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Civil Litigation. Email: Kirsten C. Stevenson |
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