Tracy
Cullen O'Connell
is a partner of the firm practicing primarily in the
area of civil litigation. She graduated from Boston
College and cum laude from the University of Georgia
School of Law. Tracy has been engaged in a civil litigation
practice encompassing both insurance defense and corporate
or business litigation. She has served as lead counsel
in jury and bench trials in state and federal court,
handling cases involving automobile accidents, construction
defects, professional negligence and contract disputes.
She is a member of the State Bars of Georgia and Texas.
She is a member of the Savannah Bar Association and
the Georgia Defense Lawyers Association, Georgia Association
of Women Lawyers (President Savannah Chapter 1997)
and Defense Research Institute.
Education:
University of Georgia
School of Law (J.D. 1993, cum laude)
Awarded Tuition Equalization
Scholarship
Served as Honor Court
Justice all three years (Chief Justice - 3L)
Boston College, Bachelor
of Science, Business/Economics, May 1990
Dean's List and Outstanding
College Students of America
Community and Bar Activities:
State Bar of Georgia -
District Representative to Executive Council, Younger
Lawyer's Division
Defense Research Institute
- Member
Georgia Defense Lawyers
Association - Member
American Trial Lawyers
Association - Member
Savannah Bar Association
- Chairman, CLE Seminar Committee; Member of Younger
Lawyer Executive Board; Volunteer Student Coach
for High School Mock Trial Competition
Georgia Association of
Woman Lawyers - Past President, Savannah Chapter;
Recipient of Georgia Woman of Achievement Award
2000
Leadership Savannah Graduate
- Currently Member of the Graduate Program
United Way Cabinet Member
- Co-Chair of Attorney's Division 2002-2003 campaigns
Junior League of Savannah
- President 2005 - 2006
Telfair Academy of Arts
- Member of William Jay Society
Additional Related
Experience:
Armstrong Atlantic State
University, Savannah, Georgia; 1999 to Present
Instructor: Teach
continuing legal education courses to legal
assistants including Tort Law, Civil Litigation,
Advanced Civil Litigation and Practical Litigation
Techniques
Office of the District
Attorney , Atlantic Judicial Circuit, Athens, Georgia;
Fall 1992
Law Clerk: Prosecuted
criminal cases. Drafted appellate briefs and
motions. Researched criminal and evidentiary
issues
Bar and Court Admissions:
Georgia State and Superior
Courts
Supreme Court of Georgia
Court of Appeals of Georgia
United States District
Court, Southern, Middle and Northern Districts
All Eleventh Circuit Cout
of Appeals
Tracy
O'Connell
2 East Bryan Street, 10th Floor
Savannah, Georgia 31401
