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In addition to serving as former editor of Calendar Call, the official publication of the General Practice and Trial Section of the Georgia State Bar, Jay has also served as Chairman of the Legal Education Committee for the Young Lawyers Section of the Georgia Bar; board member of Initiative 2000, which commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act; member of the Communications and Outreach Committee of The Public Justice Foundation; and Chairperson of the Education Committee for the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. Currently Jay serves as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Director for the American Association of Adapted Sports Programs, Inc., and as an instructor for the Trial Techniques Program, Emory University School of Law.
Jay practices in every court of Georgia, including the Georgia Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and all Georgia Superior and State Courts. Jay is also admitted to the Federal Bar, and practices in the United States District Courts of Georgia, and the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. He is also licensed to practice in West Virginia, where he was born and raised. Jay represents his clients from the settlement negotiation stage to trial to the appeal of a case, if necessary.
Jay has received the Georgia Law-Related Education Consortium Award for outstanding service to the Consortium and the children of Georgia, a Certificate of Commendation from The West Virginia State Bar and The Pro Bono Referral Project for service to individual needy citizens of West Virginia. He is also a member of the East Tennessee State University Letter Winner's Club.
In addition to membership in the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, which is limited to trial lawyers who have achieved verdicts, awards or settlements in the amount of one million dollars or more, Jay has been lead counsel in cases in which his client has been awarded or recovered $10,250,000; $5,600,000; $3,450,00; $2,600,000; $2,250,000; $2,100,000; $1,700,000; $1,600,000; $1,200,000; $1,000,000 and numerous other significant awards for compensation for losses suffered due to other's wrongdoing and/or negligence.
Jay holds a Juris Doctorate from the Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University, 1987. He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta Bar Association, Atlanta Lawyers Club, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, American Association for Justice, West Virginia Bar Association, Sandy Springs Bar Association, and the DeKalb Bar Association.
Jay was named one of Georgia 's Super Lawyer 2006, as published in Atlanta magazine and Georgia Super Lawyers Magazine, March 2006, and has been named by Georgia Trend Magazine as among Georgia's "Legal Elite" for 2006. He holds the highest rating possible (AV) by Martindale-Hubble, a nationally recognized lawyer directory. The AV rating recognizes "the highest level of skill and integrity" in the profession. Jay lives in Atlanta, with his wife Laura and 2 children.
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Scott Slappey is a partner in the firm of Slappey & Sadd, LLC, in Atlanta, Georgia. He holds a B.S. from Georgia Southwestern College, 1983, and a Law Degree from the Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University, 1986. Scott has been a member of the State Bar of Georgia since passing the bar examination in 1986. Scott is also a member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, and the Workers’ Compensation Claimant’s Lawyer’s Association.
Scott’s main area of practice is in the representation of injured workers in workers’ compensation cases. His experience in the field of workers’ compensation began with the representation of employers and insurers in workers’ compensation cases. However, since 1990, Scott’s work has been almost exclusively involved the representation of injured workers against their employers and insurance carriers. Scott is a member of the Rules Committee for the Chairman’s Advisory Council of the State Board of Workers’ Compensation. This committee is charged with formulation of rules and regulations to implement Workers’ Compensation laws. Scott also serves on the Executive Committee of the Workers’ Compensation Claimant’s Lawyers Association and has been a member of that organization since 1991. He has also served as a member of the State Bar Communications Committee, the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association Headquarters Committee, and served for several years on the State Board of Workers’ Compensation’s Annual Seminar Committee.
Out of a concern for the environment, Scott serves on the Board of Directors for the Georgia Conservation Voters. This is a committee dedicated to furthering the goal of protecting and conserving our environment by working on issues such as clean air, clean water, preservation of wildlife habitat, preservation of our natural resources, etc. He also serves as the President Elect of that non-profit group.
Scott is a frequent speaker and has presented numerous articles for the continuing education of fellow attorneys on matters related to workers’ compensation. Throughout his career, he has presented lectures on topics including exclusive remedy, cross-examination techniques, death benefits, how to achieve fair settlement for your client, the trial of a workers’ compensation case, average weekly wage, dissection of new laws, as well as lectures in many other subjects.
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Lynn Walker was born in Washington, D.C., and obtained her B.S. degree, with honors, in nursing from the University of Maryland in 1976. In 1995, Lynn received a M.S. in audit psychiatric mental-health nursing from Georgia State University. Her nursing experience includes medical/surgical nursing, Ob-Gyn, labor and delivery, newborn nursery, pediatrics, and psychiatric nursing. She attended law school and graduated from Georgia State University College of Law with a J.D. in 2005.
Lynn is a member of the Georgia Bar, the American Bar Association, the Sandy Springs Bar Association, the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, and the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers. Prior to joining Slappey & Sadd, LLC, Ms. Walker was an associate at a boutique insurance defense firm in Midtown.
Lynn is licensed to practice in every court in the State of Georgia, which includes the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, the Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia, all Georgia Superior and State Courts, the United States District Court for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia, and the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
Lynn's practice areas include auto accidents, truck accidents, wrongful-death cases, defective or dangerous products, pharmacy malpractice, severe adverse drug reactions, medical malpractice, birth injuries to children, nursing-home negligence, injuries due to unsafe premises, and all types of injury and negligence claims.
Kurt Schulzke is an attorney and CPA of counsel with Slappey & Sadd, LLC. He is a member of the Georgia State Bar and American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (AICPA). He obtained his B.S. in Accounting and Master of Accountancy at Brigham Young University, in 1986. Thereafter, he moved to Atlanta, working as an auditor and tax consultant for private and public companies at Price Waterhouse, until 1990. He then joined the faculty at the Coles College of Business where he is an Associate Professor of Accounting and Fellow at the Coles College Internal Audit Center.
Kurt is licensed to practice in all Georgia State courts, including the Georgia Supreme Court, and in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. He earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, at the Georgia State University College of Law, in 1998. He is an alumnus of the Johannes-Kepler Universitaet-GSU Program on International Commercial Arbitration and the Harvard Program on Negotiation's Teaching Negotiation in the Organization.
Since 1998, as a member of the Georgia Bar, he has served a variety of clients in corporate, securities, tax and qui tam cases. He is an Associate Member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). Kurt is lead co-author of World Accounting, a multi-volume Lexis-Nexis treatise on global financial reporting and has delivered seminars on financial reporting, corporate governance, corporate ethics and negotiation in major U.S., European and Latin American financial centers. He has published in the American Business Law Journal, Journal of Forensic Accounting and the Journal of Executive Education.
Kurt has served family-owned businesses as a board member,
CFO, and general counsel. He blogs on law and financial
reporting at The Schulzke Brief.