Georgia Lawyers Irena Chernova to J. Pollette

Firm: Meriwether & Tharp, LLC

6465 East Johns Crossing , Johns Creek , Georgia 30097

Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation

**To schedule a phone consultation with Irena, please call**. Irena Chernova is an associate attorney with Meriwether & Tharp, LLC and practices family law.  Irena was admitted to the Georgia Bar in 2014, and immediately began practicing, focusing primarily on family law at a firm in Woodstock, Georgia. There, Irena spent three years litigating divorce, contempt, family violence, modification, and adoption cases in Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, Cherokee, Forsyth, and other surrounding Georgia counties.  Irena had the opportunity to gain experience quickly and participated in jury trials, bench trials, temporary hearings, emergency hearings, mediations, and depositions.. Irena earned her Juris Doctorate from Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, graduating magna cum laude in the top 5% of her class. She was also a recipient of the John E. Ryan Merit Scholarship, a prestigious honor only awarded to the top fifteen scholars.  During her time at AJMLS, she participated in Moot Court, the Board Room (a Transactional Drafting Competitive team), and served as Executive Articles Editor of the AJMLS Law Journal.  In her third year of law school, Irena interned with the DeKalb County Solicitor’s Office and gained valuable litigation experience trying cases under the Third Year Practice Act.. Prior to law school, Irena attended the University of Georgia where she earned Bachelor’s degrees in Advertising and International Affairs with a minor in Russian. She remains a proud Dawg and you can find her wearing red and black every fall Saturday.. Though Irena is a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, she grew up in Georgia and considers Atlanta her home. Irena has a passion for helping her clients through the complicated legal process in difficult times.  She makes it a priority to ensure that her clients understand the legal process which can often be confusing and complex.  Irena is comfortable at the negotiation table as well as the court room, and is a zealous advocate for her clients’ best interests in any scenario.. Irena is fluent in Russian and she currently resides in Cobb County with her family and two dogs. She loves stroller runs with her son, cooking, a good reality TV show, and eating cheese dip on patios in the spring time.

Firm: Williams Elleby Howard & Easter

3450 Acworth Due West Rd., Ste 610 , Kennesaw , Georgia 30144

Practice Areas: Personal Injury

Named as a Top 100 Georgia Super Lawyer five times, Marc is listed as one of the Best Lawyers in America by U.S. News, and a Top 100 Trial Lawyer by the National Trial Lawyers. In 2019, Marc was inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), an invitation-only network of nationally recognized trial lawyers.. Marc’s trial verdicts have been listed multiple times in Top Verdicts magazine, including a top-100 nationwide personal injury verdict. Following this verdict in DeKalb County, the trial judge awarded an additional $1,800,000 in attorney’s fees and expenses, finding that. “This complex medical malpractice case required mastery of intricate scientific concepts and involved skillful argument regarding novel, challenging, and delicate issues. Counsel conducted themselves professionally and respectfully with the Court and, apparently, with one another, their clients, and witnesses. [Counsel] have admirable reputations, significant experience, and commendable ability in their practices. The Court was consistently impressed by the quality displayed throughout the trial by …Mr. Howard.”. Marc grew up in Blacksburg, Virginia, a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1988 and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1993. Marc has been admitted to practice law in both Georgia and Virginia since 1993.. Before law school, Marc worked on Capitol Hill as a congressional legislative assistant. This work included detailed analysis and revisions to federal trucking and aviation regulations. Marc then spent almost a decade representing airlines and airports, trucking companies, contractors, and insurance companies. In 2002, Marc “switched sides” and began representing individuals and families who have been harmed by wrongful conduct.. Marc is a regular speaker at legal seminars, including national webinars for trial lawyers around the country. Marc is also active in the legal profession and his community. From 2010-2020, Marc was elected to represent 12,000 lawyers in the Atlanta Judicial Circuit on the State Bar Board of Governors. Marc is on the Board and was president of the Sandy Springs Bar Association, is the past Chair of the Civil Justice PAC of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, and was on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Appleseed Center for Law & Justice. Marc also serves as the “Chancellor” (general counsel) for Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church in Sandy Springs.. Marc’s practice areas include tractor trailer wrecks, car accident injuries, bicycle and pedestrian injuries, motorcycle accidents, plane and helicopter accidents, negligent security, nursing home negligence, medical malpractice, wrongful death. Marc also handled a landmark class action case before the Georgia Supreme Court (Anderson v. So. Home Care Services, Inc.), where Marc represented over 9,000 home health care workers who had not been paid wages for the time spent driving to see clients. Marc has argued before the Georgia Supreme Court and Georgia Court of Appeals over 20 times. Marc is also certified as a civil mediator by the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution.. Marc lives with his wife Julie in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Their daughters Lucy (UGA 2023) and Sadie (Michigan 2026) have left the nest, so Marc enjoys spending his time running, biking, and walking his beagles, Freddy and Marley.

Firm: Smith Moore LLP

1201 West Peachtree Street Northwest , Atlanta , Georgia 30309

Practice Areas: Insurance , Products Liability, Professional Malpractice, Securities , Transportation , Insurance, Insurance, Insurance, Insurance

Firm: J. Paye & Associates Attorneys at Law

1201 West Peachtree St NW , Atlanta , Georgia 30309

Practice Areas: Business,

Firm: McCrary and Associates, P.C.

275 1Fourth Street   NW , Atlanta , Georgia 30318

Practice Areas: General Practice

Firm: Edwards, McLeod and Money, P.C.

8701 Hospital Drive   B , Douglasville , Georgia 30134

Practice Areas: Civil ,Criminal Defense ,Family ,Probate ,Wills

30 Allen Plaza   700 , Atlanta , Georgia 30308

Practice Areas: Energy ,Environmental

Building 5   750 Hammond Drive , Atlanta , Georgia 30328

Practice Areas: Criminal Defense ,DUI/DWI,Traffic Violations

Firm: The Viel Law Firm, LLC

P.O. Box 4091 , Alpharetta , Georgia 30023

Practice Areas: Car Accident, Personal Injury, Family, Slip and Fall, Adoption, Uncontested Divorce, Trucking Accident, Medical Malpractice, Car Accidents

Firm: Hall, Bloch, Garland & Meyer, LLP

577 Mulberry Street   1500  31201 , Macon , Georgia 31201

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor ,Transportation

Firm: Isenberg & Hewitt

6600 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd , Atlanta , Georgia 30328

Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Business

Firm: Hall, Bloch, Garland & Meyer, LLP

577 Mulberry Street   1500  31201 , Macon , Georgia 31201

Practice Areas: Business & Commercial,Real Estate

Firm: The Dow Firm, P.C.

1901 Union Street , Brunswick , Georgia 31520

Practice Areas: Personal Injury

After graduating in 1993 from the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, firm founder, John Albert Dow III (“J.”) attended Mercer Law School in Macon, Georgia. At Mercer, Dow tailored his studies to focus on the field of litigation, earning graduating-class high marks in both his legal research and writing class and his trial practice class.. Upon graduation from law school in 1997, Dow accepted a job with the District Attorney’s Office in the Atlantic Judicial Circuit (a jurisdiction headquartered in Hinesville, Georgia covering 6 counties) where he served as a prosecutor for the State of Georgia. As an Assistant District Attorney, Dow tried hundreds of cases (jury trials and non-jury trials) to verdict – to include a pair of cases nationally televised on Court TV (collectively dubbed, “The Tomato Patch Murder”).. After gaining extensive trial experience in the D.A.’s Office, Mr. Dow was recruited by an insurance defense firm located in his home town (Brunswick/St. Simons and the Golden Isles) to litigate on behalf of defendants. During this 3 year phase of his career, he handled high-stakes civil damages claims involving serious injuries and wrongful deaths due to medical/hospital malpractice, nursing home negligence, tractor-trailer wrecks, car/motorcycle accidents, premises hazards/defects, professional malfeasance and all other manners of negligent and intentional tortious conduct.. Convinced defending civil claims was not his calling, Mr. Dow combined his prosecutorial instincts with the knowledge he gained about defense litigation and the insurance industry and, in 2002, The Dow Firm, P.C. was established with the sole mission of providing aggressive, yet ethical legal representation to personal injury and wrongful death victims. Inspired to battle on behalf of parties hurt by wrong-doers, The Dow Firm, P.C. has secured over 50 million dollars ($50,000,000) in judgments and recoveries in serious injury and wrongful death cases in a little over a decade.. Mr. Dow attributes the firm’s success to, among other things, critical selectivity in the type and number of cases accepted by the firm, an unwavering work ethic, the employment of quality support staff, utilization of state-of-the-art technology in litigation and trial presentation and the firm’s confidence, ability and willingness to try cases before a jury.. Above all else, however, Dow credits the success of the firm to its hands-on approach which has been in place since the beginning. Mr. Dow is lead counsel, involved from start to finish, in every case in the office. If a case is accepted by The Dow Firm, P.C., it will be personally handled by Mr. Dow and the representation will be an interactive process where the client is intimately involved and informed during all phases of the matter. Firm clients have direct access to Mr. Dow (to include the provision of his cell/home telephone numbers) and are encouraged to call whenever necessary.

Firm: Daughtery, Crawford, Fuller and Brown, LLP

1430 Wynnton Road , Columbus , Georgia 31906

Practice Areas: Class Actions,Personal Injury

Firm: Coleman & Chambers, LLP

1370 Thompson Bridge Road   300  3 , Gainesville , Georgia 30501

Practice Areas: Banking & Finance,Business Organizations,Construction ,Estate Planning,Housing & Construction Defects,Land Use & Zoning,Landlord & Tenant,Probate ,Real Estate ,Trusts,Wills

Firm: J. Franklin Burns P.C.

6100 Lake Forrest Drive Suite 570 , Atlanta , Georgia 30328

Practice Areas: Americans with Disabilities Act, Civil , Discrimination, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Workers Compensation, Workers Compensation

Frank Burns, Esq. is the founder of J. Franklin Burns, P.C. and a native of Gainesville, Georgia. He began his legal career at Gorby & Reeves, an insurance defense law firm where he represented employers and insurance companies in Workers’ Compensation matters across the State of Georgia.. In 2002, he opened his law practice, J. Franklin Burns, P.C., devoting his practice exclusively to the representation of injured workers and personal injury victims. His experience in representing "the other side” has proven to be invaluable with respect the representation of injured workers.

Firm: J. Bristow Anderson, P. C.

624 Holcomb Bridge Rd Ste 22 , Roswell , Georgia 30076

Practice Areas: Real Estate

2225 Gloucester Street , Brunswick , Georgia 31520

Practice Areas: Car Accident, Divorce, Uncontested Divorce, Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death, Alimony, Child Custody, Child Support, Car Accidents

Firm: Schulten Ward and Turner, LLP

260 Peachtree Street   Northwest 2700   , Atlanta , Georgia 30303

Practice Areas: Civil

Firm: Hall Booth Smith PC

3528 Darien Hwy , Brunswick , Georgia 31525

Practice Areas: General Practice, Personal Injury

I have been practicing law since 2004, and take pride in making sure my clients are not only well represented, but also well informed of what actions I am taking on their behalf.  Over the years, I've developed a specialty in automobile accidents, and also with speeding and other traffic citations, misdemeanor and felony criminal defense.  I can assist clients with probate matters, and I have represented and continue to represent businesses, cities and counties in liability matters.  I sit as a municipal court judge on a part time basis.  I enjoy presiding over court, and utilizing the knowledge I've gained over the last several years on the bench.  I am certified as both a mediator and arbitrator, and enjoy the ability to help people resolve their disputes.  I am unapologetically a Christian.  That does not mean I am perfect, but means that I believe that one should treat others the way he or she wants to be treated.