Kevin P. Weimer Senior Associate direct: 404.586.2030 phone: 404.586.9200 fax: 404.586.9201 Peachtree Center Suite 2300, South Tower, 225 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30303-1731

KEVIN P. WEIMER, listed as a 2006 Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star, represents businesses and individuals in a wide spectrum of litigation matters, including employment law, business torts, contract disputes, personal injury, wrongful death, and False Claims Act (whistleblower) actions. Mr. Weimer's experience includes work on behalf of defendants and plaintiffs.

In 2005, Mr. Weimer secured the dismissal of a case against a Firm client where the plaintiff sought more than $500,000 for alleged transmittal of unsolicited facsimiles in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. In 2002, Mr. Weimer and Hank Fellows of the Firm prepared appellate pleadings resulting in the reversal of a trial court's finding that a Firm client partially had abandoned its easement rights in Hart County, Georgia. Plantation Pipeline Co. v. Milford, 572 S.E.2d 67 (Ga. Ct. App. 2002).

In plaintiffs' cases involving serious injury and death, Mr. Weimer has led discovery efforts that resulted in significant settlements on behalf of Firm clients.

Mr. Weimer has occupied several leadership positions in the Atlanta Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, serving as its president beginning in October of 2007. In 2005, he received the President's Award for Outstanding Service to the Chapter.

Since 2006, Mr. Weimer has been a barrister in the Joseph Henry Lumpkin Inn of Court, a teaching organization composed of highly respected judges and trial lawyers in Atlanta.

He also is an active member of the Atlanta Bar Association, including its litigation section, and has performed in the last four "A Courthouse Line" musical parody fundraisers benefiting the Atlanta Bar Foundation's charities.

Mr. Weimer is admitted to practice in state and superior courts in Georgia, in the Georgia Supreme Court and the Georgia Court of Appeals, and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia.

Mr. Weimer received his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2001. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and policy studies in 1998 from Rice University, where he was a magna cum laude honor graduate and inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

During law school, Mr. Weimer gained litigation experience by serving on both the Mock Trial Board and the Moot Court Board. He won the 1999 J. Melvin England Mock Trial Competition at the University of Georgia, and his team had the best brief and was runner-up at the 2000 Georgetown National White Collar Crime Mock Trial Invitational in Washington, D.C.

As a coach, Mr. Weimer led two teams of UGA law students to first and second place finishes in the 2001 Intrastate Moot Court Competition. As a result of his advocacy activities, he was named to the Order of Barristers in 2001.

Before joining the Firm, Mr. Weimer received significant trial experience as an intern in the Gwinnett County Solicitor's Office. In that capacity, he first-chaired criminal jury trials and bench trials in Gwinnett County State Court.