Attorney Profiles: William B. Hardegree
Bill Hardegree was admitted to the Alabama State Bar in 1957 and practiced briefly in his hometown of Talladega, Alabama, before he entered the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. as a First Lieutenant and was discharged in 1960 in the grade of Captain. He was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 1960 and was Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel for Royal Crown Cola Company before he joined Hatcher Stubbs in 1961.
For forty years, Bill has practiced exclusively in the area of civil litigation. He has litigated more than 200 jury trials and handled over 100 appeals. Bill's litigation and appellate practice is concentrated in the areas of commercial and business, insurance and personal injury, employment, and probate litigation. He also serves as a mediator in all of those practices areas as a registered mediator with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution and the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution.
Areas of Practice
- Employment Law
- Personal Injury and Insurance Litigation
- Commercial and Business Litigation
- Mediation and Alternate Dispute Resolution
Education
- Talladega, Alabama, Public Schools
- Baylor School, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1951
- Vanderbilt University, 1954
- L.L.B., University of Alabama Law School, 1957
Admitted to Practice
- Alabama, 1957
- Georgia, 1960
- Supreme Court of Alabama, 1957
- Supreme Court of Georgia and Georgia Court of Appeals, 1961
- U. S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia (Member of Rules Advisory Committee, 1992-1998); Northern District of Georgia; Middle and Northern District of Alabama
- U. S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Memberships, Affiliations and Activities
Current
- Alabama Bar Association (1957-present)
- State Bar of Georgia (1960-present; President, Columbus Younger Lawyers Section, 1962) (Board of Governors, 1971-1977) (Disciplinary Board, 1985-1988)
- Chattahoochee (Georgia) Circuit Bar Association (President, 1970)
- Chairman, Judicial Procedure and Administration Committee (1975-1976)
- Muscogee County Law Library (Trustee, 1970-present)
- ICLE Faculty Member (1982, 1985, 1990, 1993)
- Georgia Defense Lawyers Association (1971-2000; Trial Academy Faculty, 1985-1987) (Chairman, 1995-1996)
- House of TIME, Inc. (Founding Director, 1992-present; Former Chairman)
- Pickett & Hatcher Educational Fund, Inc. (Board of Directors, 1976-present)
Past
- American Red Cross
- Salvation Army
- Columbus Girls Club (Girls, Inc.)
- Anne Elizabeth Shepherd Home
- Cerebral Palsy Foundation
- Columbus YMCA
Illustrative Appellate Decisions
- Gibson v. McWhirter, 230 Ga. 545, 198 S.E.2d 205 (1973) (will construction)
- Southern Guaranty Ins. Co. v. Pearce, et al., 625 F.Supp. 646, 5th Cir. (GA) (1980); 607 F.2d 146, 5th Cir. (GA) (1979); 246 Ga. 33, 268 S.E.2d 623 (1980) (construction of insurance policy and statutory construction)
- Southern Stone Co. Inc. v. Singer, 665 F.2d 698, 11 Cir. (1982) (commercial fraud, contract)
- Evans v. Bibb Co., 178 Ga.App. 139; 342 S.E.2d 484 (1986) (wrongful discharge)
- Bradford v. Xerox Corporation, 216 Ga.App. 83, 453 S.E.2d 98 (1994) (punitive damages, sufficiency of evidence)
- Herring v. Condit, 218 Ga.App. 855, 463 S.E.2d 532 (1995) (negligence proximate/intervening cause)
- Webster v. Boyette, 224 Ga.App. 843, 482 S.E.2d 377; 232 Ga.App. 458, 502 S.E.2d 561; 269 Ga. 191, 496 S.E.2d 459 (1998) (punitive damages and bifurcation/trifurcation)
- Brown v. Kent, 238 Ga.App. 607, 518 S.E.2d 737; 248 Ga.App. 447, 545 S.E.2d 598 (2001) (contract, attorney fees, trial procedure)
- Smith & Pierce v. Association Services, Inc., 249 Ga.App. 629, 549 S.E.2d 454 (2001) (invasion of privacy, civil conspiracy)
- Curtis Anne Sims v. Carmen Evans and Chattahoochee Anesthesia Associates, Inc., 66 Fed. Appx. 845 (2001) (sex discrimination, wrongful termination)
- White v. Kent, 249 Ga.App. 893, 553 S.E.2d 1; 253 Ga.App. 492, 559 S.E.2d 731 (2002) (contracts, fraud, punitive damages)
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William B. Hardegree
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