ATTORNEY PROFILE

*Barbara Katz graduated from the City University of New York School of Law in 1992.  She was licensed by the State of Georgia and admitted to the Georgia Supreme Court, the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals that same year.

Ms. Katz is a family lawyer whose practice emphasizes adoption law, wills and estate planning, and divorce and domestic partnership issues.  After working as an associate for a few years, Ms. Katz formed the partnership of Mackinson & Katz, Attorneys at Law.  In 1998, Ms. Katz opened her solo practice, from which she formed a professional corporation in 2004.

In addition to her practice, Ms. Katz is a teacher who instructs students in the law.  Ms. Katz taught Legal Writing, Research & Advocacy at Emory University School of Law from 1998-2004; she also taught and administered a bar review course offered through Georgia State University School of Law from 1994-2006.  Finally, Ms. Katz is a private tutor and offers a bar review course for students taking the Georgia Bar Exam.  (See bar preparation page)

Ms. Katz is a member of the American Bar Association, the Stonewall Bar Association, and the National Lawyer's Guild.

*Thanks to the Wright-Hussong family for the photograph they took of me at court.