Oliver Maner LLP - Benjamin M. Perkins

Benjamin M. Perkins

Partner

PO Box 10186
Savannah, GA 31412
TEL: 912.236.3311
FAX: 912.236.8725
E-Mail: bperkins@olivermaner.com

Practice Areas:	- Local Government Liability - Employment Law - Zoning and Land Use Litigation - Professional Negligence - Commercial Litigation - Construction Litigation - Products Liability - Personal Injury
Education:	- J.D., University of Georgia, 2004 - B.A., University of Georgia, 2000
Admitted to Bar:	- Georgia - Florida
Professional Activities:	- Past President, Young Lawyers Division of the Savannah Bar Association - Chairman, Board of Court Reporting of the Judicial Council of Georgia - Board of Directors, Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of Georgia - Savannah Bar Association - Georgia Defense Lawyers Association - Coach, Jenkins High School Mock Trial Team - Out of State Practitioners' Division of the State Bar of Florida - Member, Professional Liability Underwriting Society - Local Government Section of the State Bar of Georgia

Ben Perkins, a partner in the litigation section of the firm, graduated magna cum laude from the University of Georgia Honors Program, with a major in History, and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law.

After graduating from law school, Mr. Perkins worked with a civil litigation firm in Atlanta for several years and then moved to Savannah to join Oliver Maner. His primary areas of practice are local government liability, zoning and land use litigation, professional negligence, commercial litigation, construction litigation, products liability, personal injury, and employment law.

An active member of the State Bars of Georgia and Florida, Mr. Perkins was named a Georgia Rising Star for 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011 in the Georgia Super Lawyers edition of Atlanta Magazine and Law & Politics. He has prepared and presented seminars on Electronic Records and E-Discovery, Document Retention Policies and Procedures, Georgia Police Pursuit Law, Florida Jury Verdicts, Avoiding Bad Faith Claims, and State and Federal Open Records Law.

A graduate of Leadership Savannah's Class of 2009, Mr. Perkins is a Past President of the Savannah Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, is Chairman of the Board of Court Reporting of the Judicial Council of Georgia,

coaches a high school mock trial team, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of Georgia, is a member of the Savannah Bar Association History and Archives Committee, serves on the Board for the Chatham County Domestic Relations Initiative, and is a member of the Out of State Practitioners' Division of the State Bar of Florida. Mr. Perkins is admitted to practice before the Georgia Supreme Court, the Georgia Court of Appeals, the United States District Courts for the Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Georgia, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and all state courts of Florida.

Mr. Perkins has obtained favorable results for his clients in numerous reported cases. Notable decisions include Poole v. North Georgia Conference of the Methodist Church, 273 Ga. App. 536 (2005); Cypress Ins. Co. v. Duncan, 281 Ga. App. 469 (2006); Steele v. City of Port Wentworth, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20637 (S.D. Ga. 2008); Brown v. City of Tybee Island, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 27660 (S.D. Ga. 2010); Pollman v. Swan, 305 Ga. App. 369 (2010); Effingham County v. Rhodes, 307 Ga. App. 504 (2010); and Freeman v. Eichholz, 308 Ga. App. 18 (2011).