"Zoning And Land Use" seminar will cover almost all aspects of land use planning that you might encounter in Georgia. There will be an emphasis on legal challenges and how to deal with them and avoid them, as well as suggestions as to how to deal with the different tribunals who hear zoning cases.

G. Douglas Dillard is an attorney with Dillard & Galloway, LLC. Mr. Dillard’s practice areas include zoning, planning and land use, local government law, land use litigation, zoning law, zoning variances and eminent domain. He has lectured on topics of zoning and land use law, and has authored numerous papers on these topics.

Andrea Cantrell Jones is an attorney with Dillard & Galloway, LLC. Her practice areas include local government law, land use litigation, eminent domain, commercial litigation and family law. Ms. Jones is a member of the Atlanta Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia, and the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers, and she is a guardian ad litem.

Laurel A. David is an associate with Dillard & Galloway, LLC. Ms. David’s practice areas include zoning law land use. She was admitted in Georgia in 2003.

James Blount Griffin is an associate at the Law Offices of Wm. Thomas Craig, concentrating his practice on zoning appeals, county codes, landfill permits, §1983 actions and other disputes. Mr. Griffin earned a B.A. degree from Gordon College, an M.A. degree from the University of Alabama and a J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University Law School

Daniel C. Haygood is a partner at Haygood & Pruett, LLP. He is engaged in local government representation, residential and commercial real estate, probate, estate, and trust planning and administration and corporate and contract representation. Mr. Haygood earned a B.S.B.A. degree, with honors, from Auburn University and a J.D. degree from the University Of Georgia School Of Law.

Michael C. Pruett is a partner at Haygood & Pruett, LLP. He is engaged in local government representation, probate, estate, and trust planning and administration and corporate and contract representation. Mr. Pruett earned a B.B.A. degree, magna cum laude, and a J.D. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Georgia

Edward D. Tolley is a partner at Cook, Noell, Tolley, Bates & Michael, and LLP. He earned B.B.A., M.B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Georgia. Mr. Tolley is a member of the board of governors for the State Bar of Georgia and the American College of Trial Lawyers; a distinguished fellow for the Georgia Bar Foundation; president of the Western Circuit Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association, Middle District of Georgia; and a fellow of the Lawyers Foundation of Georgia and the American Board of Trial Advocates.

Jonathan Weintraub, P.C. is a sole practitioner in Decatur, Georgia. For nearly eight years, he was the county attorney for DeKalb County, Georgia. Prior to his DeKalb experience, Mr. Weintraub was the county attorney for Gwinnett County, Georgia, during the period when it was the fastest growing county in the United States.