Bridget Bobick James
Bridget Bobick James has more than two decades of experience as a Georgia litigation lawyer. After graduating magna cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law, Bridget started her legal career with Troutman Sanders LLP in Atlanta, where she practiced primarily in the firm’s complex litigation practice group. In 2006, she joined a boutique law firm where she practiced fiduciary litigation and business litigation and became a partner.
In 2015, Bridget formed her own firm, The James Law Firm, LLC, where she focuses on probate litigation, estate and trust litigation, fiduciary litigation and business litigation. She has a proven record of obtaining successful results in litigation matters, including will contests, will construction cases, contested guardianships and conservatorships, trustee disputes and other breach-of-fiduciary duty and conversion cases. Bridget has handled complex business disputes throughout all stages of litigation, including extensive discovery, hearings, strategy, trials and appeals.
EDUCATION
University of Georgia School of Law, J.D, magna cum laude
- Order of the Coif, Phi Kappa Phi, Verner F. Chaffin Excellence in Fiduciary Law Award, Georgia Law Review – articles editor and editorial board, Thomas Murphy Scholar
University of Notre Dame, B.A., English, with honors
COURT & BAR ADMISSIONS
- State Bar of Georgia
- Supreme Court of Georgia
- Court of Appeals of Georgia
- United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia
- Eleventh Circuit, United States Court of Appeals
- Sixth Circuit, United States Court of Appeals
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Georgia Super Lawyer Rising Star – 2007, 2009, 2010
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Cathedral of St. Philip, Chapter member (lay governing body of the Cathedral)
- St. Monica’s Guild, treasurer – 2015-2016; outreach chair – 2014-2015
- Notre Dame Club of Atlanta Lawyers Division