Wayne S. Tartline is a partner at the firm.  He has been a litigator in the Atlanta area since 1999, litigating hundreds of highly contested cases.  Mr. Tartline has expansive litigation experience encompassing civil and criminal cases in all of Georgia's courts, from juvenile courts to the Supreme Court of Georgia.  Mr. Tartline's practice is currently devoted to complex litigation and intellectual property counseling, with emphasis on trade secrets misappropriation and trademark infringement, insurance defense relating to serious injury claims, premises liability and motor vehicle collisions, and commercial development/construction/erosion litigation. 

Mr. Tartline received a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering Degree (B.I.E.) from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994. In 1999, he received his Juris Doctor degree from Georgia State University College of Law.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mr. Tartline is a founding member of the Georgia Innocence Project. He is also a member of the Georgia State Bar Intellectual Property Section, Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Cobb County, Georgia Bar Association;

The following is a sample of Mr. Tartline's reported appellate cases:  Harris v. Albany Lime & Cement Co., 291 Ga.App. 474, 662 S.E.2d 160 (2008), Wallace v. Bock, 279 Ga. 744, 620 S.E.2d 820 (2005), Landau v. Davis Law Group, P.C., 269 Ga.App. 904, 605 S.E.2d 461 (2004), Thompson v. State, 261 Ga.App. 828, 584 S.E.2d 7 (2003); Studenic v. Birk, A02A1844, 260 Ga.App. 364, 579 S.E.2d 788 (2003), Imerman v. London, 255 Ga. App. 140, 564 S.E.2d 544 (2002) and Rodriguez v. Nunez, 252 Ga.App. 57, 555 S.E.2d 514 (2001)