Attorney Profiles

Lorna Sills Katica
Attorney at Law

Education:

• Suffolk University Law School:
  JD, Cum Laude, 1983, Boston, MA, Law Review
• Tufts University: B.A., Economics, 1980, Medford, MA
  

• Texas Bar 1984
• Florida Bar 1987
• Georgia Bar 2002
• Atlanta Bar Association 2003
• American Bar Association 2003
• Mediation Training In Workplace Disputes
• Atlanta Justice Center 2003
• Registered Mediator with Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution 2003
• Volunteer, Atlanta Truancy Intervention Project 2003
• The Congress of Fellows of the Center for International Legal Studies (2008)

Admitted:

• United States District Court, Middle District of Florida (1987)
  
• United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia (2003)
  
• Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (1991)
  
• Texas (1984)
  
• Florida (1987)
  
• Georgia (2003)
  

• In the Matter of Antonio Andrews, Niquel Barron v. ING North America Insurance Corp, Administrative Review Board, ALJ Case Nos.  2005-SOX-50, 2005-SOX-51 (August 29, 2008) (Counsel for Complainants)
• In Re: Carolyn Denise Upshur, Debtor, 2004 WL 2651355 (Bankr. N.D. Ga. 2004)
  (counsel for debtor)
• Comment, “Premises Liability: Resistance to the Abolition of the Common Law
  Trespasser Rule”, 17 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 230 (1983)
• Annual Survey of Rhode Island Law, The Informed Consent to Abortion Act, 17 Suffulk U. Law Rev. 505 (1983)
• Published Decisions: Assily v. Tampa General Hospital, 1994 U.S. Dist. Lexis 5226, 8 Fla. L. Seekly Fed. D. 138 (1994)(counsel for plaintiff)
• Flanagan v. General Motors Corp., 2006 WL 2792678 (N.D. Ga. 2006)
  (counsel for Plaintiff)
• Maitland v. Employease, Inc., 2006 WL 3090120 (N.D. Ga. 2006)
  (counsel for Plaintiff)
• Williams v. City of Atlanta, ___ S.E.2d___, 2007 W.L. 35241 (2007)
  (counsel for Plaintiff)
• Hoard v. CUH2A, Inc. Architecture Engineering Planning, 2006 W.L. 2617130 (N.D. Ga. 2006)(counsel for Plaintiff)
  
• Ms. Katica has written personal articles about her legal career published in the online magazine
  
  The Complete Lawyer:  
  
• The Accidental Entrepreneur,Complete Lawyer, Vol. 4, No. 3 (2008),
  
• Confessions of a Dragon Slayer, Complete Lawyer, Vol. 2 No. 4,
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Recent Honors:

Lorna Katica is the only invitee from the State of Georgia to receive the highly prestigious honor of participation in the August 2006 session of the Oxford Round Table, which presents an opportunity for select academic, government and business leaders to discuss contemporary issues over a five-day collegial, “think-tank” atmosphere in Oxford, England.  This Roundtable will gather 35 academics, lawyers, and public officials worldwide to discuss Blackstone and American Education Law.

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