Matt Kahn - Atlanta, GA

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, 2015
    Juris Doctor
    Law Journal: Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal, Managing Editor

• Non Legal Education

  • Georgia State University, 2012
    Bachelor of Arts
    Honors: Pi Kappa Phi
    Major: Political Science

Current Employment Position(s)

• Attorney

Past Positions

• Fried & Bonder, LLC, Associate Attorney
• Hall Booth Smith, P.C., Summer Associate
• Hon. Sara Doyle, Court of Appeals of Georgia, Clerk

Pro Bono Activities

• Parkinson’s Foundation Georgia, Advisory Board Member
• Georgia Legal Food Frenzy, Annual Planning Task Force

Representative Cases

• Nash v. Reed, 349 Ga. App. 381
  • Year: 2019
• Liotta v. Wolford Boutiques, LLC, No. 1:16-CV-4634-WSD, 2017 WL 1178083
  • Year: 2017

Published Works

Articles

• Proving Constructive Knowledge with Google Maps, The Verdict Magazine, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, 2019
  
• Techniques for Virtual Depositions, The Verdict Magazine, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, 2020
  
• Using State Tools in Federal Court, The Verdict Magazine, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, 2020
  
• Police Brutality: Court Manufactured Injustice, The Verdict Magazine, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, 2021
  
• View from the Bench – Judge Diane Bessen, The Verdict Magazine, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, 2021
  
• How I Obtained Justice (And You Can Too!), Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, 2022
• Work-Life Balance, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, 2022
• View from the Bench – Judge Sara Doyle, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, 2022

Bar Admissions

• Georgia
• Georgia Court of Appeals
• 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
• U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit

Other Affiliations

• American Association for Justice, Membership Oversight Committee
• American Association for Justice, Trial Lawyers Care
• Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, LEAD Class, 2019 - 2020
• Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, New Lawyers Division, Executive Board
• Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Community Outreach Committee
• Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Communications Committee
• Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Editorial Board, Verdict Magazine
• DeKalb Bar Association
• State Bar of Georgia