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John C. Porter Jr.
John Porter joined Smiley Bishop & Porter in July of 2006 with over 29 years of commercial litigation experience in Georgia, including State, Federal and Bankruptcy Court jurisdictions. He has appeared in state courts in over half the counties of Georgia and in Federal and Bankruptcy Courts in the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Georgia.
Mr. Porter has represented clients in a wide variety of commercial controversies. These include general contract disputes, mortgage fraud, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Truth-In-Lending and other consumer credit litigation cases, insurance coverage claims, restrictive employment covenant litigation, securities fraud litigation, age discrimination, trademark and copyright disputes, shareholder and member disputes in closely held corporations and limited liability companies. He has experience representing out-of-state financial institutions in reviewing their programs and policies for compliance with Georgia regulatory laws and regulations.
From 2000 to early 2002, Mr. Porter was the Atlanta office managing partner of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP and most recently a partner in the law firm of Stites & Harbison PLLC where he served as the leader of the Atlanta Litigation Service Group. He is authorized to practice in all Georgia state courts, the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, and Middle Districts of Georgia and the United States District Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and Sixth Circuit
Mr. Porter is a 1975 Honors Graduate of Emory College and a 1978 graduate of Emory University School of Law. He and his wife Elizabeth have two sons.
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