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Teresa Pike Tomlinson is a Partner in our Atlanta and Columbus, Georgia, offices, where she specializes in complex trial and appellate civil practice. She is known for her ability to handle strategically complicated and potentially high value cases. She is admitted to courts throughout the country, including numerous federal circuit courts and the United States Supreme Court.
Teresa practiced law for 16 years with the plaintiff’s law firm of Pope McGlamry, where she specialized in complex litigation, giving her a unique perspective in her current defense cases. As plaintiff’s counsel, Teresa led a trial team to a $21.5 million award in her client’s favor, and led litigation teams in cases to include nationwide class actions, securities/derivative litigation, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act Litigation, and Multi-District litigation.
As a young lawyer, Teresa prosecuted civil claims for surviving families of 1996 ValuJet Air Crash, making her mark and becoming the first woman partner at her firm. She currently leads Hall Booth Smith’s multi-district efforts battling COVID-19 related claims in health care professional settings. Teresa previously served as the mayor of Columbus, Georgia, where she oversaw nearly 3,000 employees and a $275 million budget and was the chief elected official of the city/county government, public safety director, and Homeland Security Director for a 16-county region. She was a statewide candidate for United States Senate in 2020 finishing second in a field of seven in the primary election.
Teresa earned a Juris Doctor from Emory University and a Bachelor of Arts in Government, Economics and Business Management from Sweet Briar College in Virginia. She served as Chair of the Board of Directors for Sweet Briar College, and in 2015 she led an initiative to raise $28.5 million in four months to avert a planned closure of her alma mater and put the college back on solid financial footing.
She is a member of the Georgia Bar and has been admitted to practice before federal and state courts across the country, including the United States Supreme Court, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eighth and Eleventh Circuits, and the Georgia Supreme Court, among others.
Teresa is an experienced litigator and strategic thinker who has decades of leadership experience in municipal governance, complex legal matters, and crisis management. She served two terms as Mayor and Public Safety Director of the Columbus Consolidated Government, and holds National Security Secret Clearance with the U.S. Department of Defense. Earlier in her career, she focused her legal practice on complex litigation and appellate work.
Teresa brings decades of experience in complex litigation, strategic decision-making, crisis management, and government leadership to HBS clients. She joined the firm in 2019 after completing two terms as Mayor and Public Safety Director of the Columbus Consolidated Government, and she holds National Security Secret Clearance with the U.S. Department of Defense.
She previously spent a decade and a half handling complex litigation and appellate work at Pope McGlamry, where she led a trial team to a $21.5 million judgment in her client’s favor in a contract dispute that involved a related action by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Teresa is often invited to speak before other municipalities across Georgia and to local chambers of commerce and business development groups. She is also a frequent guest commentator on political and legal matters on Political Rewind by Georgia Public Radio, MSNBC’s AM Joy show and The Daily Beast.
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