People: R. Wayne Bond, Partner
Biography
Mr. Bond has handled cases across the country involving product liability defense, contract disputes, class action defense, advertising claims, professional malpractice, corporate liability, personal injury, pharmaceutical clinical trials, employment discrimination, bankruptcy, criminal defense, fraud and business torts. He is experienced with complex business litigation, administrative hearings, and alternative dispute resolution, serving as an advocate, mediator and court-appointed arbitrator. He has successfully represented clients in high-profile, “front-page” cases and effectively managed confidential matters requiring clients to maintain the lowest possible profile.
Client industries served by Mr. Bond include financial institutions, financial services companies, product manufacturers, construction companies and life science companies. He has handled regulatory and criminal investigations by federal and state government agencies, and he has represented individuals and businesses in criminal and civil litigation in numerous state and federal courts.
Representative cases include:
- Successful defense of multiple class actions in state and federal courts on behalf of product manufacturers;
- Successful representation of product manufacturers in advertising disputes, including injunction proceedings for false advertising and Lanham Act claims over print and TV media advertising;
- Successful defense of numerous lender liability lawsuits in state, federal district and bankruptcy courts;
- Successful defense of product manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies and individual company executives sued in state and federal court and being investigated in state and federal criminal prosecutions;
- Successful defense of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies in state and federal courts by individual plaintiffs seeking over $100 million each; and
- Successful defense of class action clinical trials case with plaintiffs seeking $1.5 billion from sponsors, CROs, institutions and investigators, asserting RICO and conspiracy allegations, and making wholesale challenges to human experimentation in clinical trials.
Mr. Bond has lectured at numerous continuing professional education seminars, and has taught classes at the University of Georgia School of Law, the University of Georgia Business School, and Emory University.
Mr. Bond has handled cases across the country involving product liability defense, contract disputes, class action defense, advertising claims, professional malpractice, corporate liability, personal injury, pharmaceutical clinical trials, employment discrimination, bankruptcy, criminal defense, fraud and business torts. He is experienced with complex business litigation, administrative hearings, and alternative dispute resolution, serving as an advocate, mediator and court-appointed arbitrator. He has successfully represented clients in high-profile, “front-page” cases and effectively managed confidential matters requiring clients to maintain the lowest possible profile.
Client industries served by Mr. Bond include financial institutions, financial services companies, product manufacturers, construction companies and life science companies. He has handled regulatory and criminal investigations by federal and state government agencies, and he has represented individuals and businesses in criminal and civil litigation in numerous state and federal courts.
Representative cases include:
- Successful defense of multiple class actions in state and federal courts on behalf of product manufacturers;
- Successful representation of product manufacturers in advertising disputes, including injunction proceedings for false advertising and Lanham Act claims over print and TV media advertising;
- Successful defense of numerous lender liability lawsuits in state, federal district and bankruptcy courts;
- Successful defense of product manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies and individual company executives sued in state and federal court and being investigated in state and federal criminal prosecutions;
- Successful defense of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies in state and federal courts by individual plaintiffs seeking over $100 million each; and
- Successful defense of class action clinical trials case with plaintiffs seeking $1.5 billion from sponsors, CROs, institutions and investigators, asserting RICO and conspiracy allegations, and making wholesale challenges to human experimentation in clinical trials.
Mr. Bond has lectured at numerous continuing professional education seminars, and has taught classes at the University of Georgia School of Law, the University of Georgia Business School, and Emory University.
Education
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J.D., University of Georgia Law School (1984)
magna cum laude
Order of the Coif; Editorial and Managing Board, Georgia Law Review; International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Award for Distinguished Achievement in Advocacy; Talmadge Moot Court Competition: Best Oralist & First Place; Member: ABA National Mock Trial Team; ATLA National Mock Trial Team; Georgia Intrastate Mock Trial Team, Student Instructor, Appellate Advocacy Class -
B.S., Kennesaw College (1981)
with honors
Courts
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia
- U.S. Court of Claims
- Georgia Supreme Court
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Georgia Court of Appeals and all Georgia trial courts
