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F. Carlton King, Jr., Esq.

F. Carlton King, Jr., Esq.

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General Biography
Practice Areas
Appellate
Banking
Business Commercial
Employment Law
Estate Probate Trusts
Insurance
Intellectual Property
Personal Injury
Professional Liability
Real Property
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
Background and Education

F. Carlton King, Jr., Esq. is an experienced mediator and arbitrator who has handled cases in many substantive areas of practice. His over 50 years as an active trial lawyer -- representing individuals and multinational corporations, plaintiffs and defendants, in both federal and state courts in many states -- provide him with insight into the wide array of legal and practical issues that usually impact settlement.

ADR Experience and Qualifications

Carlton’s mediation, arbitration, and litigation experience includes a wide variety of cases:

  • Business torts (unfair competition, trade secret theft, trade name infringement, contract interference, price discrimination, fraud, and professional malpractice)
  • Employment (contracts, restrictive covenants, sex, age, race, and disability discrimination, negotiation of severance packages)
  • Real estate disputes (involving developers, custom and production builders, homeowners, brokers, and commercial leases)
  • Business disputes (breach of contract, UCC, and computer software)
  • Banking
  • Disputes between partners, limited partners, shareholders, and joint venturers, including dissolution of professional and other partnerships and corporations
  • Trusts and estates (will and estate contests, breach of fiduciary duty)
  • Product liability (personal injury, property damage, and wrongful death)
  • Medical malpractice and other claims for personal injury and wrongful death
  • Insurance (including coverage and bad faith issues)

Representative Matters

  • Arbitrated a FSLA overtime collective action
  • Arbitrated a breach of a contract claim where a CEO disputed a discharge for cause
  • Mediated numerous sexual harassment claims
  • Mediated a race and national origin discrimination claim against a city
  • Mediated a case where a school superintendent was dismissed by a local school board
  • Mediated a race discrimination claim against a senior manager of a major retail chain
  • Mediated several claims for unpaid commissions and stock options
  • Mediated numerous claims involving denial of disability benefits
  • Mediated several cases where insurance carriers have been involved and participated in the mediation

Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities

Completed Virtual ADR training conducted by the JAMS Institute, the training arm of JAMS. 

  • Fellow, American College of Civil Trial Mediators
  • Listed in Best Lawyers in America, Mediation, Arbitration and Commercial Litigation, 2003-2024
  • Listed in Who’s Who Legal, Commercial Mediation, 2022
  • Atlanta Collegium of Arbitrators and Mediators
  • Selected a Georgia Super Lawyer, limited to 5% of the Georgia Bar, based on peer evaluation
  • Member, American Bar Association, Atlanta Bar Association, and State Bar of Georgia
  • Member, Georgia Academy of Mediators and Arbitrators
  • Adjunct Professor, Employment Litigation, Emory University School of Law

Background and Education

  • Civil Trial Practice since 1971
  • Former Partner: King & Croft, LLP; Ford Harrison; and Hansell, Post, Brandon & Dorsey (now Jones Day)
  • J.D., University of Virginia, 1971; Order of the Coif; Law Review
  • BA., Furman University, 1968

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