S. Gardner Culpepper, III

Overview

Representative Experience

• Assisted private equity firm in achieving eight figure claim settlement under a buy-side representation and warranty policy
• Won motions to dismiss in multi-million dollar putative state-wide consumer fraud and product liability class actions that were filed in North Carolina and Florida federal district courts.
• Secured dismissal of $30 million tortious interference and defamation suit filed against an international business communication solutions company.
• Through novel use of the inevitable disclosure doctrine, successfully prevented the threatened misappropriation of trade secrets belonging to a nationally recognized phonetic search technology company.
• Obtained favorable results for one of the world’s largest investment banks in non-compete and corporate raiding cases filed in Georgia.
• Co-defense counsel with other large national and international firms representing one of the world's largest wireless telecommunications companies in multiple international breach of contract and licensing disputes with hundreds of millions of dollars at issue, including two International Chamber of Commerce arbitrations.
• Defeated multiple defamation and business tort cases throughout the Southeast brought against one of the largest telecommunications services providers in the United States.
• Co-defense trial counsel in charge of expert witness cross examination in murder case tried to completion in Fulton County Superior Court. Trial counsel in multiple insurance defense matters and arbitrations hearings tried to completion.

Professional & Community Activities

• Member on Board of Trustees for Atlanta Bar Association CLE
• Lawyers Foundation – Fellow
• State Bar of Georgia
• American Bar Association
• Defense Research Institute
• Atlanta Bar Association  

Speeches & Presentations

• "Representation and Warranty Policies - Trends and Claims," Georgia CLE Presentation, February 201
• "Lincoln on Professionalism, " Moderator of Georgia Professionalism CLE with panel of Federal District Court Judges, March 2017
• "Professionalism Challenges," Moderator of CLE presentation for the Atlanta Bar Association, December 2016
• "Ethics for In-House Counsel: Negotiations," Georgia CLE presentation to the Georgia Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, March 2016
• "Ethics for In-House Counsel: Ethics in Transactional Matters," Georgia CLE presentation to the Georgia Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, March 2014
• “The Law(s) of Privilege: Trends, Choices and Context for In-House Counsel,” Georgia CLE presentation, 2012

Professional Recognition

• The Best Lawyers in America® - Commercial Litigation
• Benchmark Litigation - Local Litigation Star in Georgia for expertise in the Construction and General Commercial categories
• Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Top Rated Lawyer
• Super Lawyers: rated a Georgia Super Lawyer in the Class Action/Mass Torts; Construction Litigation; and Business Litigation