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Client-Recommended Attorneys, Adjusters and Experts
Best's Insurance Professional Resources
Client-Recommended Attorneys, Adjusters and Experts


Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys - General Defense

Truist Bank Building, Suite 500, 435 Second Street, 5th Floor, Macon, Georgia 31201-2724

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 6437, Macon, GA 31208-6437

Established: 1872

Practice Areas

  • Insurance Defense
  • Automobile
  • Fire
  • Casualty
  • Life Insurance
  • Workers' Compensation
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Self-Insured
  • Coverage Opinions
  • Banking
  • Business Law
  • Class Actions
  • Complex Litigation
  • Education Law
  • Employment Law
  • Environmental Law

About Us

Jones Cork, LLP is one of the largest law firms in Georgia outside of Atlanta. Located at the center of the State, our firm’s legal representation reaches throughout the State, including Atlanta, Valdosta, Augusta, Columbus, and many small towns and cities across Georgia. Our goal in each legal engagement is to achieve a successful result for our client. Our firm maintains the highest standards of excellence and ethics.

Every legal engagement and every client is equally important to us.

Jones Cork, LLP has extensive experience representing large and small businesses; banking institutions; governmental entities and school districts; and individuals in virtually all aspects of corporate, transactional, commercial, real estate, litigation, and insurance matters. We believe quality legal representation includes personalized client service, and we strive to build strong relationships with our clients. We encourage frank and frequent communications on all aspects of our representation.

Client Information

General Counsel For

  • Baldwin County School District
  • Cherokee Brick & Tile Company
  • Methodist Home of the South Georgia Conference
  • Nu-Way Weiners, Inc.
  • Pulaski County School District
  • South Georgia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church
  • SPF Plastics Group

Insurance Clients

Local Counsel For

  • AT&T Southeast
  • BASF Corporation
  • BB&T
  • Bibb County School District
  • Blake & Pendleton, Inc.
  • City of Perry
  • Educational Credit Management Corporation
  • Genworth Financial, Inc.
  • KaMin LLC
  • Macon-Bibb County
  • Paul Davis Restoration
  • Primary Pediatrics
  • Republic Services, Inc.
  • Triangle Chemical Company

Regional Counsel For

  • B-H Transfer Co.
  • Georgia Power Company
  • Georgia Transmission Corporation
  • Green Group Holdings, LLC
  • Howard Sheppard, Inc.

Personnel Information

Partners


Howard J. Strickland, Jr.

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 1988
Education:
  • The Citadel, B.A., 1985
  • The University of Georgia, J.D., 1988

Born: 1963

Cater C. Thompson

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 1983
Education:
  • Mercer University, B.A. (summa cum laude), 1980
  • Mercer University, J.D. (cum laude), 1983
Law Review:
Mercer Law Review, 1981-1983

Born: 1959

Callie Dickson Bryan

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 2002
Memberships:
  • Georgia Defense Lawyers Association
Education:
  • The University of Georgia, B.A. (cum laude), 1999
  • Georgia State University College of Law, J.D., 2002

Born: 1977

Eugene S. Hatcher, Jr.

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 1997
Education:
  • The University of Alabama, B.A., 1994
  • Mercer University, J.D., 1997

Born: 1971

J. Patrick Goff

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 2005
Education:
  • Mercer University, B.B.A. (cum laude), 2001
  • Mercer University, J.D., 2004

Born: 1979

Christopher J. Arnold

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 2008
Memberships:
  • Georgia Defense Lawyers Association
Education:
  • The University of Georgia, B.B.A. (cum laude), 2005
  • Mercer University, J.D., 2008

Born: 1982

R. Matthew Shoemaker

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 2012
Memberships:
  • Georgia Defense Lawyers Association
Education:
  • The University of Georgia, B.A., 2007
  • Mercer University, J.D. (magna cum laude), 2012

Born: 1984

Andrew L. Davidson

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 2015
Education:
  • Georgia Southern University, B.S. (summa cum laude), 2011
  • Mercer University, J.D. (cum laude), 2015

Born: 1989

Benjamin Z. Claxton

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 2021
Education:
  • Mississippi College, J.D. (magna cum laude), 2015
  • The University of Mississippi, B.A., 2002

Born: 1980

Of Counsel


Timothy K. Adams

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 1962
Education:
  • Emory University, A.B., 1960
  • University of Virginia, LL.B., 1963

Born: 1938

W. Warren Plowden, Jr.

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 1968
Education:
  • Davidson College, A.B., 1965
  • Mercer University, LL.B. (magna cum laude), 1968

Born: 1944

Rufus D. Sams, III

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 1971
Memberships:
  • Georgia Defense Lawyers Association
Education:
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Mercer University, J.D. (cum laude), 1971
Law Review:
Board of Editors, Mercer Law Review, 1970-1971

Born: 1947

Steve L. Wilson

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 1972
Education:
  • Emory University, A.B., 1969
  • The University of Georgia, J.D., 1972

Born: 1947

Thomas W. Joyce

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 1989
Education:
  • Wofford College, A.B., 1980
  • Mercer University, J.D. (cum laude), 1989
Law Review:
Mercer University Law Review, 1988-1989

Born: 1958

Brandon A. Oren

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 1989
Education:
  • Bob Jones University, B.A., 1986
  • The University of Georgia, J.D., 1989

Born: 1964

Robert C. Norman, Jr.

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 1980
Memberships:
  • Association of Defense Trial Attorneys
Education:
  • The University of Georgia, A.B. (magna cum laude), 1977
  • The University of Georgia, J.D. (cum laude), 1980

Born: 1955

Emeritus


H. Jerome Strickland

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 1963
Memberships:
  • Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
Education:
  • Auburn University
  • Mercer University, LL.B., 1964

Born: 1940

Senior Attorney


Ryan C. Swanson

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 2007
Education:
  • The University of Georgia, B.B.A. (magna cum laude), 2003
  • The University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., 2007

Born: 1981

Associates


William B. McDavid

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 2018
Education:
  • University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2018

Born: 1990

Rhett G. Rycroft

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 2023
Education:
  • The University of Georgia, B.S.P.S., 2020
  • Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law, J.D. (cum laude), 2023

Born: 1997

Kenneth R. Ellington

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 2024
Education:
  • Clemson University, B.S., 2017
  • The University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., 2024

Born: 1995

Hunter L. Wallace

Macon, GA

Admitted
  • Georgia, 2024
Education:
  • The University of Georgia, B.B.A., Finance (cum laude), 2019
  • Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law, J.D. (cum laude), 2024

Born: 1997

Service Areas

Albany, Georgia, USA 103 miles

Americus, Georgia, USA 68 miles

Cordele, Georgia, USA 65 miles

Dublin, Georgia, USA 50 miles

Forsyth, Georgia, USA 24 miles

Griffin, Georgia, USA 52 miles

Milledgeville, Georgia, USA 30 miles

Perry, Georgia, USA 28 miles

Warner Robins, Georgia, USA 18 miles

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