Resources

If you would like to establish a mentoring relationship with a seasoned attorney, please contact the professionals pictured below. If you would prefer to simply have a question answered anonymously, you can do that too, as discussed immediately below.

The ALDC is pleased to answer attorneys' professional questions the same day. You may want to know how to acquire quality assignments, improve communications between you, partners and colleagues, acquire suggestions on keeping your job during this recession, or pose a question emerging from some current professional situation. Our mentoring professionals will try their best to reach you the same day by phone. Let their hindsight provide you with practical suggestions now, not later. Feel free to contact one of the attorneys pictured below. When you make a call, you need not identify yourself, simply say you are seeking advice as per The ALDC Mentoring Hotline Resource. If you wish to leave a message anonymously, ask the mentor to call you back under a pseudonym.

The purpose of the ALDC STAR Lawyer Mentoring Hotline is to provide callers same-day mentoring advice as might be received in any mentoring relationship. The caller should not personally identify him/herself or any other individual(s). The mentor is not providing specific legal advice; rather, suggestions are provided based on a general set of facts, which may or may not be hypothetical. By calling the Mentoring Hotline, the caller acknowledges and agrees that the advice given is general, does not constitute legal advice, does not establish an attorney/client relationship and that neither the mentor nor ALDC is liable in any way to the caller for any advice given.

Amy Fouts is an associate in McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP’s health care group. Her practice focuses on a variety of litigation, regulatory and compliance issues. She advises clients on many aspects of health care law, with a particular emphasis on fraud and abuse, corporate compliance, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, false claims and other government investigation issues, and defense of allegations of False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback, and Stark Law violations. Amy’s practice focuses on Medicare and Medicaid coverage, reimbursement and coding issues involving physicians, hospitals and other health care providers. Amy has significant experience with Medicare, Medicaid, and third party payor overpayment and recoupment appeals. Further, she deals extensively with the creation and implementation of corporate compliance programs and compliance training. Representative engagements include the development and review of corporate compliance program and policies, including review of HIPAA Privacy and Security compliance program. Amy has published a variety of articles relating to billing and reimbursement and fraud and abuse matters. She has also presented at several educational programs and professional conferences on Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, billing and coding documentation issues and fraud and abuse matters.

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Mr. Hadley has an extensive background in counseling clients in complex corporate transactions, particularly those involving intellectual property and technology. His previous roles as general counsel and chief privacy officer in the corporate sector have provided him with invaluable insight on the impact of legal issues on his clients' business needs and allow him to provide "real world" solutions to clients. Mr. Hadley focuses his corporate practice in the areas of information security and privacy, technology and business process outsourcing, telecommunications, intellectual property, information technology, software development and licensing, and entertainment/media. Mr. Hadley has overseen cross-border transactions in South and Central America, Asia-Pacific and the European Union involving information management, business processes, data security and privacy. He also has experience in providing information security and technology accessibility assessments/audits, data security breach remediation, electronic records management and e-discovery. See Mr. Hadley's biography at:

http://www.pogolaw.com/people-attorneys-profile-1157.html

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Ms. James joined the ALDC Board in February of 2009. On March 18th, Ms. James co-taught our STAR Lawyer Program, "Guideposts: The Keys To Success. Angela Payne James is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group. She focuses her practice on patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright litigation as well as other complex commercial litigation. Ms. James has extensive experience in federal and state court at both the trial and appellate levels. She has litigated matters on behalf of a variety of clients in the medical technology, computer software, advertising, chemical agriculture, telecommunications, advertising, retail, media, and entertainment industries on a nationwide basis. Ms. James represented a medical technology startup in a fraud/deceptive trade practices jury trial in federal court in North Carolina and won a judgment of $318 million. On appeal, the case settled for $180 million. Ms. James also has extensive experience counseling clients on intellectual property compliance and enforcement matters, including web site and domain name disputes.

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The ALDC welcomed Ms. Sangston to our Board in March, 2009. We appreciate her role in teaching better feedback skills in a dynamic session at King & Spalding LLP this Spring. She joined Cox Communications in 1995 as its fourth attorney. She was promoted to Senior Counsel in 1998. In 2000, she was promoted to Vice President and Assistant General Counsel. Currently, she oversees all of the operations of the Legal Affairs Department. Prior to joining Cox Communications, Sangston was an associate with the law firm of Dow, Lohnes in the Washington, D.C. office. There, she specialized in litigation involving media companies. Ms.Sangston received her B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania where she was a member of the Mortar Board Honor Society. She received her J.D., with high honors, from George Washington University’s National Law Center. She was selected to be a member of the George Washington Law Review and Order of the Coif. In 2004, Sangston served as the national Chair of Women in Cable & Telecommunications, Inc. (“WICT”), a nearly 10,000 member non-profit organization whose mission is to develop women leaders in the cable television industry. Prior to serving as Chair, she held numerous other leadership positions in the organization, including President of the Atlanta Chapter in 1999. In addition, Ms. Sangston is an alumna of Class 8 of the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute, WICT’s flagship executive development program.

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1500 Resurgens Plaza. 945 East Paces Ferry Road. Atlanta, Georgia 30326. (404) 240-4286. Jewelle Johnson is a partner in the Atlanta office. She has successfully defended numerous companies against employment discrimination claims arising under Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act in both state and federal courts. Ms. Johnson advises clients on preventative measures aimed at reducing employment-related claims and provides management and employee training on such topics as diversity, discrimination and harassment, wage and hour laws, and discipline and discharge. Jewelle was named as one of the "Top 25 Power Women to Watch in 2006" by Atlanta Woman magazine and was selected for two consecutive years (2005-2006) as one of "Georgia's Rising Star Super Lawyers" by Atlanta and Law & Politics magazines. In 2006, Jewelle was also one of 14 attorneys selected as one of the Daily Report's young lawyers "On the Rise." Click to see full Biography:

http://www.laborlawyers.com/showbio.aspx?Attorney-E.-Jewelle-Johnson&Show=4992

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Jill Harrison serves as the ALDC Vice President, and has served as a STAR Lawyer Presenter on improving communication skills for two years. Ms. Harrison joined Dow Lohnes's Atlanta Litigation practice in 1995. Her practice includes extensive counseling and advice to employers nationwide on all aspects of the employment relationship, including avoidance and defense of discrimination claims, compliance with disability and medical leave laws, sexual harassment training for supervisors, employee discipline and termination, employment and consulting agreements including restrictive covenants, severance and release agreements, personnel policy design and implementation, union avoidance strategy, and collective bargaining. Ms. Harrison regularly represents employers in state and federal courts throughout the country in actions alleging discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, wrongful discharge, emotional distress and other employment-related claims. She also has experience in union representation elections and unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board and in grievance arbitrations under collective bargaining agreements.

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Sam Matchett is a partner on King & Spalding’s Atlanta Labor & Employment Practice Group. He concentrates his practice on employment relationship matters, with an emphasis in labor and employment law litigation in both state and federal courts, governmental agencies (OFCCP), and arbitration tribunals. Mr. Matchett routinely defends employers in litigation involving the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1964 (Title VII), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act and employment-related state law claims. Mr. Matchett's practice entails extensive experience in employment discrimination. In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Matchett provides general client advice on the avoidance of employee-related problems and presents seminars concerning all aspects of employment law. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and several appellate courts.

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Karen D. Fultz joined the firm's Atlanta office in July, 2002 and practices with the Insurance Litigation Group. Karen focuses her practice on subrogation and recovery. Prior to joining Cozen O'Connor, Karen was an associate with Lackland and Associates in Atlanta. She also served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Denise Page Hood of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

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Atlanta Office Phone: 404/923-9047 Fax: 404/923-9947. Resurgens Plaza, 945 East Paces Ferry Road, Suite 2700, Atlanta, Georgia 30326. Aasia Mustakeem is a Member of the Firm in the Real Estate practice group in the Atlanta office. Her practice focuses on commercial real estate. She represents developers, purchasers and sellers in connection with the acquisition, disposition and development of office, hotel, retail, industrial and mixed-use projects. Since 2004, Ms. Mustakeem has been recognized as a Georgia Super Lawyer by Atlanta Magazine. In 2006, 2007 and 2008, she was named as one of Georgia Trend's Legal Elite. She is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education seminars, as well as an author and a past chairperson of the 2,000 member Real Estate Section of the Georgia Bar.

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Brent L. Wilson: bwilson@elarbeethompson.com. (404) 582-8427. Practice Areas: Labor Relations Labor & Employment Litigation Employer Counseling, Training & Litigation Prevention Employment Litigation. Educational Institutions: Communications/Media/Technology Providers Alternative Dispute Resolution Education J.D., University of Georgia; State University of New York at Buffalo, 1976 B.A., cum laude, Morehouse College, 1973. Admitted to Practice Georgia Louisiana. Profile: Brent devotes a significant portion of his practice to defending employers in employment-related litigation and representing employers in traditional labor matters including unfair labor practice proceedings, representation cases, arbitration and collective bargaining. He is also focused on proactively counseling employers regarding day-to-day employment decisions to avoid litigation. He works with a variety of employers nationwide, including communications companies, service providers, educational institutions, non-profit groups, public entities and manufacturing operations.

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