As trial lawyers, we help people get justice. We care about the people we help. We prepare each case by blending our creative and progressive approach with hard work and decades of highly specialized training and experience in every phase of discovery, jury selection, and trial work. We use smart and specific focus group work, the latest technology and great people to ensure a phenomenal result in every case.
"At trial I share with jurors what I am feeling about myself, my clients case, and my work. I am bone honest. Opening up to jurors this way helps jurors open up to me, to trust me. If jurors trust me, they will follow me. And we will win. And that's how I get justice for people."
James Hugh Potts II
"Slick lawyers in fancy suits don't win jury trials. A lawyer who cares about his client and is bone honest with jurors does."
James Hugh Potts II
"Good trial lawyers sound like people, not like lawyers."
James Hugh Potts II
LEADERSHIP
Instructor - Gerry Spences Trial Lawyers College
Guest Speaker - Georgia Public Television
Mentor - State Bar of Georgia Mentoring Program
Member - Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
Member American Association for Justice
Member - State Bar of Georgia
Founder - Every Day Warrior Scholarship
SPEAKING
Gerry Spences Trial Lawyers College, Speaker on
Jury Selection
Opening Statement
Direct Examination
and Cross Examination of Witnesses
Psychodrama and Trial Techniques
Closing Argument
State Bar of Georgia, Speaker on
Cross Examination
Trial Techniques
Laymens Lawyer, Georgia Public Television, Guest Speaker
Trial Techniques
Continuing Professional Education, Georgia Bar Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
"Cross Examination"
Courts
Georgia Court of Appeals
Georgia Supreme Court
US District Court Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Georgia
US Tax Court
US Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
Education
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Doctor of Law, 1990
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Master of Accountancy, 1984
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee Bachelor of Science in Accounting, With Honors, 1983
