Robert T. Trammell, Jr.
Biography
Bob Trammell has substantial experience in handling a wide range of complex legal issues on behalf of clients. He frequently serves as counsel for the receiver in both state and federal receivership cases, assisting the court-appointed receiver with the sale of businesses, the sale of assets, liquidation of assets, collection of accounts receivable, and various litigation related to the entity in receivership.
Bob also has substantial experience both serving as a fiduciary and advising fiduciaries in probate related matters. He has served as fiduciary in over 25 matters, ranging from being appointed conservator for minors and incapacitated adults, to serving as Administrator or Executor for decedents’ estates, and to serving as Trustee in both testamentary and inter vivos trusts.
Bob regularly consults with business clients as a de facto general counsel on a range of issues including ordinary course business transactions, personnel issues, contract matters, risk mitigation, and litigation issues.
He also has substantial local government experience. From 2011 to 2014, Bob represented Meriwether County as County Attorney. Bob has served as counsel to the Meriwether County Water & Sewerage Authority since 2011.
Bob has handled a variety of litigation matters in Magistrate Court, Probate Court, State Court, Superior Court, U.S. District Court, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the Georgia Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of Georgia. These cases include criminal cases, estate litigation, contract disputes, land use matters, personal injury, divorce, employment litigation, and consumer fraud cases.
Bob graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1999. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Jack T. Camp in the United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia. Bob then practiced law at King & Spalding in Atlanta in the Financial Restructuring practice group before founding The Trammell Firm in 2003.
Bob served three terms as the State Representative for House District 132 (covering portions of Troup, Coweta, and Meriwether counties) in the Georgia House of Representatives from January 2015 through January 2021, including serving as House Minority Leader from 2017 until the end of his term in elected office. In 2018, Bob was named as one of the 100 most influential Georgians by Georgia trend magazine (https://www.georgiatrend.com/2017/12/31/2018-100-most-influential-georgians/).