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A. Joseph Coomes

Partner

Overview
Admitted to practice in 1996, Joe Coomes has more than twelve years of litigation experience, focusing primarily on litigation involving business, consumer, products liability and real estate issues, often including class action litigation.

Joe regularly practices in state and federal courts in Georgia as well as other jurisdictions at both the trial and appellate levels. He has represented corporations and individuals, both as plaintiffs and defendants. He has also assisted numerous clients in successfully resolving matters through alternative dispute resolution methods and is currently in the process of becoming a certified mediator.

From 1996 through 2003, Joe was a trial attorney with the firm of Weinstock & Scavo where he aggressively represented the interests of his clients within Georgia and throughout the country. For the five years before joining McConnell & Sneed, Joe practiced with the firm of Phears & Moldovan, continuing his focus on complex business litigation and class action litigation. As a general business litigator, Joe handles a wide variety of day-to-day business problems, issues, disputes and claims, including contract, professional liability, consumer, construction, warranty, trade secret, covenants not to compete, negligence, product liability and other complex business and commercial matters.

Education
University of Florida, Bachelor of Science (Mathematics/Economics), 1989
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
Florida State University, Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, 1996
Honors: Order of the Coif; Florida State University Law Review, 1994-96, Associate Editor, 1995-96

Admitted / Affiliations and Memberships
State Bar of Georgia
Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia
Supreme Court of the State of Georgia
United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
American Bar Association