Phillip E. Friduss has dedicated his career to the efficient, effective, and economically sensitive representation of clients in matters of dispute. While he has an outstanding track record in the courtroom (he has successfully obtained jury verdicts for clients in all of Georgia’s federal districts, and in numerous state and superior courts), he is equally as proud of the results he and his clients have achieved outside of the courtroom.
Mr. Friduss’ practice is primarily devoted to the representation of public entities and public officials, and representation of a wide array of clients in the area of labor and employment law, medical and correctional healthcare, wrongful death, appellate advocacy, and in general and complex litigation matters.
Mr. Friduss spent the first eighteen (18) years of his career in two of the southeast’s premier litigation firms. Most recently, he was with Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, P.C. from 1996 to 2007. There, he was the Chairman of the Governmental Liability Practice Group, and also Chairman of the Employment Practice Group. For the last six (6) of those years, he also served on the firm’s Strategic Planning Committee, lending his vision to the other outstandingly accomplished lawyers on that committee. The committee was charged with planning for, implementing, and oversighting a business plan dedicated to meeting the ever increasing demands of regional and national clients with whom the firm had partnered. In that time, the firm grew from twenty (20) lawyers in one city, to one-hundred (100) lawyers in six (6) cities.
Outside of the everyday demands of navigating clients through legal disputes, Mr. Friduss is fiercely devoted to his community, and to the betterment of the law profession. To that end, he has twice served as a city attorney; served on the late Senator Paul Coverdell’s Crime and Law Enforcement Task Force; served as Chairman of the ABA Subcommittee on Civil Rights/First Amendment Liability; served as Co-Chairman of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Civil Rights Liability; and has served on the Defense Research Institute’s Governmental Liability Committee since 2000.
Mr. Friduss has appeared and published on the national level. At the Presidential Showcase Presentation during the 2000 ABA Annual Convention in New York City, he produced and moderated the program “Civil Rights in the 21st Century: Police Misconduct, Racial Profiling, and Other Emerging Issues,” which featured other such prominent national speakers as Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, and then ACLU President Nadine Strosser. He has been published in the Defense Research Institute’s For the Defense (Defending the Indefensible-Racial Profiling Hits the Courts, October, 2000), and in other trade publications.
For his highly successful track record in representing Georgia’s local governments and officials, Mr. Friduss has been named a Georgia Superlawyer by Atlanta Magazine for all five (5) years the magazine has made such designations. Less than five percent (5%) of Georgia’s lawyers are bestowed this distinction, which is peer reviewed, and closely scrutinized by select members of the Georgia Bar.
Mr. Friduss also carries an AV-Rating from Martindale-Hubbel, the pre-eminent peer review agency of attorneys in the country. The agency defines an AV rating as “a testament to the fact that a lawyer’s peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence.”
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