Maxwell R. Jones

Practice Areas

Personal Injury – Max represents plaintiffs in tort cases involving catastrophic injury and death, and his practice focuses on litigating these high-stakes tort cases.

Commercial Litigation – Max also represents businesses and individuals in litigation and arbitration involving complex commercial litigation, including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, business divorces, fraud, partnership disputes, restrictive covenants, RICO, and trade secret misappropriation.

Max has tried cases to juries, judges, and arbitrators throughout Georgia, and he has handled multiple appeals to state and federal appellate courts.

Career

Max served in a variety of public service roles: as legal counsel for the Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission, as a law clerk for the Honorable Eleanor L. Ross of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, and as an extern for former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold Melton. Most recently, Max was a managing associate in the commercial litigation group of the largest law firm in the world.

Professional Memberships

Georgia Trial Lawyers Association – Member

Publications

• Ethical Pitfalls and Precautions for In-House Counsel: Who’s Your Client?, 12 Int’l In-House Counsel J. 48 (2019) (with Douglas Balyeat

and Gregory Brow)

• The Alien Tort Statute and Corporate Liability: Rebutting the Extraterritorial Presumption Post-Kiobel, 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 699 (2016)

• SB 99 – Criminal Procedure: Conduct of Criminal Trial Proceedings, 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 91 (2015) (with Mary Emily Kinshaw)

Personal

Max lives in the Kirkwood neighborhood of Atlanta, and enjoys spending time with his fiancée, three dogs, golfing, hiking, and cycling (road and mountain), when time permits.

Education