Ranse Partin

Ranse Partin specializes in complex civil litigation, encompassing business litigation, whistleblower cases, class actions, and significant personal injury and product liability matters. As a licensed private pilot, Mr. Partin brings considerable expertise to cases related to aviation incidents. He has also provided counsel to various members of the Georgia General Assembly regarding personal injury claims, including advising a member sued in his personal capacity.

Mr. Partin’s notable representations include a medical malpractice case for a former NFL player of the Atlanta Falcons, which resulted in a substantial settlement following a jury trial. He is currently representing two families in federal court in Seattle, Washington, in a claim against Holland America, alleging the cruise line’s failure to adequately warn passengers of known dangers associated with seaplane flights in Ketchikan, Alaska, which tragically resulted in six fatalities.

Before founding his own firm, Mr. Partin practiced for a decade at one of the world’s largest law firms, representing prominent corporations across various sectors. He is dedicated to advocating for “the underdog” — individuals and businesses adversely affected, both economically and physically, by the wrongful acts of others.

Mr. Partin has received recognition from his peers as one of Georgia’s top attorneys. He holds the highest Martindale-Hubbell peer rating (“AV Preeminent,” 5 on a scale of 1-5), a distinction reflecting his standing among fellow lawyers. The Daily Report, Georgia’s legal newspaper, has named him one of the top 40 lawyers in the state under the age of 40. He has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer” and previously acknowledged as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers and Atlanta magazines, based on peer votes. In 2015 and 2016, Mr. Partin was included in Georgia Trend magazine’s list of “Georgia’s Legal Elite” in personal injury litigation.

He is passionate about trying cases throughout Georgia, particularly in rural venues that resonate with his background. In 2014, he served as co-counsel in the largest personal injury verdict in Valdosta, Georgia, at that time, securing $1.8 million for a client who suffered a needless leg amputation due to medical malpractice. In 2013, he was co-counsel in two jury verdicts exceeding $11 million: Hernandez v. Hi-Tech Engineering, which yielded a $10 million verdict in Jefferson County for the wrongful death of an undocumented worker in a sawmill; and Thomas v. Williams, which resulted in a $1.2 million verdict in Cobb County in an automotive wrongful death case.

Prior to establishing his firm, Mr. Partin spent ten years at King & Spalding, an internationally recognized law firm with over 850 lawyers, where he was a member of the Business Litigation, Healthcare, and False Claims Act (qui tam/whistleblower) practices. He represented numerous corporate clients, particularly in the healthcare sector, including hospitals, health systems, pharmacy providers, and managed care organizations. His work frequently involved complex healthcare regulatory and managed care issues, and he is an active speaker and writer on healthcare litigation topics. Mr. Partin also has extensive experience in business litigation, having represented Fortune 100 companies such as The Coca-Cola Company, Comcast, and SunTrust Bank. His litigation experience spans both state and federal courts, encompassing first-chair trial work at both the trial and appellate levels, as well as arbitration and mediation proceedings in commercial disputes nationwide. He has litigated a variety of business claims, including breach of contract, fraud, tortious interference, RICO, class actions, and insurance coverage disputes.

Mr. Partin graduated cum laude from The University of Georgia School of Law and holds a B.A. from Emory University. Following law school, he clerked for two years for the Honorable Thomas W. Thrash, Jr., United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. He is a native of Nashville, Georgia.

Speeches, Papers & Presentations

• June 2019: Panel presentation to State Bar of Georgia Annual Meeting, “War Stories From Trials”, Orlando, Florida
• September 2017: Presentation to Atlanta Bar Association Litigation Section on “Planning Your Case,” Atlanta, Georgia
• July 2017: Presentation and paper on “Repair Shops and Other 3rd Party Sources of Liability” in automotive cases, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association Auto Torts Seminar, Destin, Florida
• August 2015:  Arbitration of Healthcare Disputes, Arbitration Seminar, Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Atlanta, Georgia
• February 2015:  Apportionment: Benefit or Burden to Whom?, Product Liability Seminar, Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Atlanta, Georgia
• August 2013:  Tort Liability and Breach of Contract, Contract Litigation Seminar, Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Atlanta, Georgia
• August 2013:  Evidentiary & Trial Issues for Auto Cases Under the New Evidence Code, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association Auto Torts Seminar, Destin, Florida
• August 2013:  Tort Liability & Breach of Contract, Georgia ICLE Contract Litigation Seminar, Atlanta, Georgia
• March 2012:  Fundamentals of Health Care Law, Top 3 Issues Facing Health Plans, Georgia Bar Health Law Section Seminar
• Fall 2011:  Fighting Deceptive and Unfair Business Practices:  Georgia’s Statutory Claims, The Verdict, Georgia Trial Lawyer’s Association Magazine –View Article
• May 2011:  The False Claims Act:  Basic Issues in Whistleblower / Qui TamCases, Georgia Trial Lawyer’s Association Annual Meeting
• April 2011:  VHA Georgia, Managing Managed Care Disputes
• March 2011:  Georgia Law School, “Doing Well, Doing Good:  Law Firm Pro Bono” panel presentation
• March 2011:  Fundamentals of Health Care Law, Top 3 Issues Facing Health Plans, Georgia Bar Health Law Section Seminar
• May 2010: On Wine and FCA Claims: Breaking the Seal Spoils Both,
  American Health Lawyers Association, Healthcare Liability and Litigation Practice Group Newsletter
• March 2010: Fundamentals of Health Law, Top 3 Issues Facing Health
  Plans, Georgia Bar Health Law Section Seminar
• February 2010: Georgia Law School’s Working in the Public Interest (WIPI) Law Conference, Athens, Public Interest v. Private Practice, on balancing pro bono work with work at a large law firm
• February 2008: Presentation, Hospital / Managed Care Company Litigation, VHA Georgia
• 2008 Payors, Plans and Managed Care Law Institute, Non- Participating Provider Disputes: An Overview of Theories, Arguments, Defenses and Results, James W. Boswell III (contributing author)
• December 2008 Presentation: Staying Ahead of Medicare RACs and Other Program Integrity Contractors, Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors
• May 2007: Litigation Trends in Managed Care, American Health Lawyers Association Law Conference for Health Plans, Insurers, and Providers, Richard L. Shackelford and Ranse M. Partin

Community and Bar Service

• Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference, Planning Committee for 2020 & 2022 Atlanta Meeting
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel (2022-2025)
• Georgia Conservancy, Board of Directors (2014 – 2020)
• Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Executive Committee (2019- 2021); Vice-Chair of Directed Political Giving Program (2021 – 2022); PAC Board (current)
• Buckhead Lions Club, Board of Directors (2019 – current)
• Vice-Chair and Program Co-Chair, Aviation & Space Law Committee of the American Bar Association, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (“TIPS”) (2018)
• Member, Aviation Law Section, State Bar of Georgia
• Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association (AOPA)
• Peachtree Road United Methodist Church, Administrative Board (prior); Finance Committee (2006 – 2009; 2013 – 2016); Usher (current)
• Piedmont Driving Club
• Leadership Georgia, Class of 2013
• Emory University, Candler School of Theology, The Committee of 100 (2013 – 2016)
• Safe Kids of Georgia, Board of Directors (2013 – 2015)
• Special Committee on the Role of Magistrate Judges in Civil Litigation, Federal Bar Association, Atlanta Chapter
• American Health Lawyers Association (former member)
• Georgia Academy of Healthcare Attorneys (former member)
• Barrister, Bleckley Inn of Court (2005 – 2006)
• The Commerce Club Operating Board (2001-2005)
• Multiple Sclerosis Society, Georgia Chapter, Leadership Class of 2009
• State Bar of Georgia Committee on the Judiciary (2005-2008)
• Metro Atlanta Arts & Culture Coalition, Arts Leaders of Metro Atlanta (2008)
• Hanover West Neighborhood Association Board (2007)
• Leadership Atlanta L.E.A.D. Program, Class of 2006

See Attorney Ranse Partin Present Oral Arguments at the Georgia Supreme Court.

Representative Matters

Mr. Partin has a diverse litigation practice, primarily devoted to representing plaintiffs – businesses and individuals – in civil litigation.

Examples of Mr. Partin’s representations of businesses, since starting his own firm, include:

• Represented private equity fund as plaintiff in $21 million dispute related to the enforcement of a developer’s personal guaranty for a mezzanine loan related to an industrial warehouse development;
• Appointed to Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in Equifax Data Breach Multi-District Litigation (MDL), serving as Co-Liaison Counsel for the Financial Institution Class Plaintiffs;
• Obtained $1.2 million settlement for hospital client in breach of contract case where a managed healthcare insurance company was wrongfully paying the hospital for “outpatient-observation claims” as lower cost “inpatient claims”;
• Appointed to Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in Home Depot Data Breach MDL, serving as Co-Liaison for the Financial Institution Class Plaintiffs;
• Representing a Fortune 500 company as a plaintiff in a multi-million dollar tax dispute against a state;
• Successfully representing as plaintiff one of the nation’s largest suppliers of asphalt in several contract disputes with a road contractor and surety bonding companies, recovering nearly 100% of the underpayment shortly after filing suit;
• Defending one of the largest health-systems in the Southeast against business tort claims by a group of physicians previously affiliated with the health-system, in both the state trial and appellate courts;
• Representing as the plaintiff a regional health-system in a payment dispute in excess of $1 million against a Fortune 500 health insurer;
• Serving as local counsel for a plaintiff – telecommunications company in federal court in patent litigation against Google for infringing on a patent related to Google-Voice

Examples of Mr. Partin's representations of individuals include:

• $4.5 million pre-suit settlement of trucking collision involving the death of a husband and serious injuries to his wife, requiring extensive research and negotiations regarding personal jurisdiction and choice of state law issues
• Obtained $11.7 million verdict from a federal judge in a bench trial in an aviation accident case against the United States of America.  Represented the widow and children of a man who was killed in an aviation accident resulting from the negligence of pilots of the United States Civil Air Patrol.
• Obtained $3.5 million in a settlement for the surviving parents who lost their child in the crash of a private jet;
• Representing at trial the surviving family of a foreign-born worker in a wrongful death, product liability suit against the Canada-based manufacturer of a computer-operated lumber sawing system, involving depositions in Mexico, Oregon, Arkansas, and Georgia, resulting in a $10 million verdict in Jefferson County, Georgia, in March 2013;
• Representing at trial the surviving father of a college student, killed while driving from home Easter night when he collided into a boat and trailer parked partially in the right-of-way, resulting in a $1.2 million verdict in Cobb County, Georgia, in April 2013;
• Obtained a $765,000 settlement in a multi-defendant case for the surviving parents of a 6-year old girl, who drowned in a swimming pool built by a pool company in violation of building codes, which pool was wrongfully certified by the municipality as conforming to code, in September 2013; and
• Obtained a $300,000 settlement on the eve of trial from a county’s insurer, for federal civil rights claims against a Sheriff and investigator on behalf of a husband and wife whose home was illegally searched with an intentionally fabricated search warrant, working as co-counsel with famed trial lawyer, Bobby Lee Cook, in January 2013.

Ranse Partin arguing at the Georgia Court of Appeals
From 21:15 to 38:00

Contact Ranse Partin

ranse@conleygriggs.com

4200 Northside Parkway, NW Building One, Suite 300
Atlanta, GA 30327

Phone: (404) 809-2591
Fax: (404) 467-1166