Adam M. Hames Esq. - Atlanta, GA

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Tulane Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana, May, 1998
    Honors: cum laude
    Honors: Awarded Certificate of Advance Study of Arbitration
    Honors: Appointed to Dean’s Advisory Committee and ADR Academic Advisory Committee
    Honors: Chief Administrator of the Honor Board
    Honors: Awarded the Gary Lawton Fretwell Award

• Non Legal Education

  • Universita Di Siena, Siena, Italy, 1997
  • The American University, Washington, District of Columbia, May, 1991
    B.A., Bachelor of Arts
    Major: Literature

Current Employment Position(s)

• Attorney

Past Positions

• Georgia Department of Law, Criminal Division, Assistant Attorney General

Pro Bono Activities

• Lawyers Club of Atlanta, President Elect
• Lawyers Foundation of Georgia
• Former Coach, High School Mock Trial Team, The Paideia School
• Former Alumni Advisory Committee, The Paideia School

Published Works

Articles

• Professionalism on Appeal as Reflected in the Rules of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Written Materials for ECAPI, October 2008
  
• Raising Claims of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel on Appeal in Georgia, The Appellate Review, Vol. 4, Number 1 (November 2004)
  
• Review of the Georgia Supreme Court’s Appellate Practice Decisions for 2002 through 2003Article for ICLE’s Georgia Appellate Practice Seminar 2003
  

Bar Admissions

• Georgia
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
• Supreme Court of Georgia
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Georgia
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Georgia

Other Affiliations

• Former Chair, Appellate Practice Section of State Bar of Georgia
• Chair, Georgia Appellate Practice Seminar 2002, 2003
• Eleventh Circuit Appellate Practice Institute, (ECAPI), Organizing Committee
• American Bar Association, White Collar Criminal Law Section
• American Bar Association, Council of Appellate Lawyers
• Atlanta Bar Association