EDUCATION

University of Florida, Juris Doctor, 1976

Davidson College, Bachelor of Arts, 1970

FOCUS OF PRACTICE

Workers' Compensation Claimant's Law-closed head injuries, death cases, and all other cases involving Workers' Compensation issues.

PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP

Partner, Long & Holder, LLP, 1986-present

Atlanta Bar Association, Chair, Workers' Compensation Section 1990-1991, Chair, Medical-Legal Committee, 1999-present.

Rated "AV" by Martindale-Hubbell

Selected as a 2005-2009 Georgia Super Lawyer by Atlanta Magazine.

Member, Board of Directors of WIN-PAC.

Fellow, Knights of the Bar

Georgia Trial Lawyers Association

Lawyers Club of Atlanta

Fellow, Lawyers' Foundation of Georgia

Fellow, The College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers 

LECTURES

"When the Claimant Changes Attorneys-The Rights and Duties of the Predecessor and Successor Attorneys", Atlanta Bar Association Workers' Compensation Section Seminar, 1988

"Litigating Permanent Partial Disability Benefits Claims", Atlanta Bar Association Workers' Compensation Section Seminar, 1991

"Attorney's Fees and Ethical Dilemmas of Claimant's Attorney and The Defense Attorney, Assessed Fees and How to Make a Living", ICLE Workers' Compensation for the General Practitioner Seminar, 1991

"Aggravation of Pre-Existing Injuries", Atlanta Bar Association Workers' Compensation Section Seminar, 1994

"Quintuple Bypass: WC/ADA/FMLA/OSHA/SITF", State Board of Workers' Compensation Seminar, 1994

"The Ethics of Discovery Objections", Atlanta Bar Association Advanced Workers' Compensation Seminar, 2000

"Medical Treatment for the Injured Worker", ICLE Workers' Compensation for the General Practitioner Seminar, 2000

"Current Return to Work Issues", ICLE Workers' Compensation Law Institute Seminar, 2000

"Georgia Workers' Compensation Subrogation", GTLA Don't Lien On Me: How to Deal With Subrogation & Reimbursement Claims Seminar, 2001

"Subrogation UPDATE", ICLE Workers' Compensation for the General Practitioner Seminar, 2002

"Subrogation-Is It Alive and Well?", State Board of Workers' Compensation Seminar, 2002

"Judicial Responses To Recurring Witness, Evidentiary and Discovery Issues",

Atlanta Bar Association Advanced Workers' Compensation Seminar, 2004.

"Emerging Return to Work Issues", Atlanta Bar Association Advanced Workers' Compensation Seminar, 2007

Establishing Catastrophic Designation", Side by Side Brain Injury Clubhouse Seminar, 2008

PUBLICATIONS

"Proving Disability In Workers' Compensation Cases", The Verdict, July/August 1991

"Workers' Compensation Pre-Hearing Checklist (all issues)", The Atlanta Lawyer, Fourth Quarter 1991

"Workers' Compensation: Trends In Obtaining Medical Treatment", The Verdict, Winter 1999

"Workers' Compensation Subrogation: Two Perspectives", The Verdict, Fall 2002

CIVIC LEADERSHIP

Past President, Peachtree Hills Civic Association

Board of Directors, Side By Side Brain Injury Clubhouse, (Chair, 2008-present)