Rogers & Hardin is pleased to announce that S. Gardner Culpepper, III has become a partner in the firm as of June 2010. Gardner is a trial lawyer representing plaintiffs and defendants in complex civil matters. He focuses his defense practice on contract and licensing disputes, UCC warranty disputes, class actions and business torts, most recently in the building product, healthcare and telecommunications sectors. Gardner also represents many clients in personal injury, premises liability, products liability, insurance coverage, and restrictive covenant litigation.
Gardner obtained his J.D. degree in 1995 from the Vanderbilt School of Law, where he was an associate editor for the Vanderbilt Law Review and the recipient of the American Jurisprudence Book Award for Property.
Upon graduation from Vanderbilt, he served as a judicial clerk to The Honorable Jerome Turner, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.
Gardner obtained his undergraduate degree in 1992 from Dartmouth College, where he graduated
magna cum laude and received formal Citations for Excellence in multiple disciplines.
In 2009 Gardner was named as one of the twelve top lawyers under 40 “to watch” in Atlanta, as well as one of Georgia’s rising stars. He is a co-author of the most recent version of the Georgia Appellate Practice Handbook.