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Mike Terry handles high-stakes class actions, trials, and appellate matters. 

In recognition of his career achievements, Mike received the State Bar of Georgia’s “Tradition of Excellence Award” in 2024. He was also named a finalist for the national “Trial Lawyer of the Year” award by Public Justice in 2023 and was honored as Georgia’s overall “Lawyer of the Year” in 2021 by American Lawyer Media and the Daily Report, after being a finalist in 2017. Additionally, he received the inaugural “Guardian of Justice” Award from the Council of State Court Judges in 2017. 

Mike served as president of the Atlanta Bar Association from 2010 to 2011, where he prioritized judicial funding. In 2019, he received the organization’s highest honor, the Charles Watkins Award for lifetime service, and later served as president of the Atlanta Bar Foundation from 2018 to 2019. He currently sits on the boards of the Atlanta Bar Association and the ABA’s House of Delegates and previously served for a decade on the State Bar of Georgia’s Board of Governors.

He has published three books and numerous articles on appellate practice. He frequently writes and lectures on class actions and punitive damages and is often invited to moderate judicial panels, particularly on professionalism.

Atlanta Bar Association, Past President and Executive Committee Member; Litigation Section, Past Chair; Continuing Legal Education Board of Directors, Past Chair; Judicial Campaign Conduct Committee, Past Chair State Bar of Georgia, Member, 2012 - 2022 American Bar Association, Member, 2018 - 2024 Lawyers Foundation of Georgia, Sustaining Member  Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Executive Committee, Member American Association for Justice, Member  Lawyers Club of Atlanta, Member American Constitution Society, Member Lumpkin Inn, American Inns of Court, Executive Committee, Member; Program Committee, Chair Supreme Court of Georgia, Standing Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law, Member, 2005 - 2011, Chair 2010 - 2011; Emergency Management Committee, Member Druid Hills Civic Association, Former President  Atlanta Youth Soccer Association, Board of Directors

University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., 1987, magna cum laude

University of Georgia, A.B., 1982, magna cum laude