Phillip E. Friduss, Education Attorney in Atlanta, Georgia
Over 37 years of legal practice · focused on Education, Employment, and General · 5.0/5 rating from 1 verified client review
PartneratHall Booth Smith, P.C.
Atlanta, GA
Practicing education in Atlanta since 1989.
- 37+
- Years practicing
- 5.0 ★
- 1 client review
- 2
- Bar admissions
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Phillip E. Friduss is a partner based in Atlanta, GA. The practice focuses on Education, Employment, and General. Phillip has over 37 years of legal experience. Currently practicing at Hall Booth Smith, P.C.. Rated 5.0 out of 5 from 1 client review.
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- Atlanta, GA
- Experience
- over 37 years
- Known for
- Education · Employment · General
- Handles Education, Employment, and General matters from Atlanta, GA.
- Over 37 years of practice as a licensed attorney.
- Recognized with AV Preeminent.
About Phillip E. Friduss: Phillip E. Friduss is a partner based in Atlanta, GA. The practice focuses on Education, Employment, and General. Phillip has over 37 years of legal experience. Currently practicing at Hall Booth Smith, P.C.. Rated 5.0 out of 5 from 1 client review.
Areas of practice
Phillip's practice areas in Atlanta
Phillip concentrates on education, employment, general, and health care. Each area below outlines the kind of case Phillip handles, typical outcomes to expect, and how the intake process starts.
Education
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Employment
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Education cases in Atlanta, Georgia
Phillip takes education matters in Atlanta, Georgia. Typical engagements include intake calls to scope the issue, review of any records or filings you already have, and a written strategy memo before Phillip agrees to represent you.
Employment cases in Atlanta, Georgia
Phillip takes employment matters in Atlanta, Georgia. Typical engagements include intake calls to scope the issue, review of any records or filings you already have, and a written strategy memo before Phillip agrees to represent you.
General cases in Atlanta, Georgia
Phillip takes general matters in Atlanta, Georgia. Typical engagements include intake calls to scope the issue, review of any records or filings you already have, and a written strategy memo before Phillip agrees to represent you.
Health Care cases in Atlanta, Georgia
Phillip takes health care matters in Atlanta, Georgia. Typical engagements include intake calls to scope the issue, review of any records or filings you already have, and a written strategy memo before Phillip agrees to represent you.
Biography
Phillip E. Friduss, education attorney serving Atlanta
Phillip E. Friduss is a partner based in Atlanta, GA. The practice focuses on Education, Employment, and General. Phillip has over 37 years of legal experience. Currently practicing at Hall Booth Smith, P.C.. Rated 5.0 out of 5 from 1 client review. Phillip works from Atlanta, Georgia and takes on education matters across the region.
Phil Friduss is a Partner in the Atlanta office with strong practice ties to the Firm’s 6 Georgia regional offices. His practice focuses on the defense of high-exposure cases in the areas of governmental liability, labor and employment, correctional health care, and education. In over 30 years, Phil has had the pleasure of representing over 225 public entities.
For the success of his team, Phil has been named a Georgia Super Lawyer by Atlanta Magazine 16 times, and he has also been an honored member of Georgia Trend Magazine’s Legal Elite in the area of labor and employment law. For over 20 years, he has been AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
Phil has been a member of DRI’s Governmental Liability Committee for over 20 years, serving as its Chairman from 2012 to 2014. He is a national level speaker and author. His legal column, Towns and the Law, appeared monthly from 2011 to 2018 in Georgia Municipal Association’s flagship print publication, Georgia Cities.
Experience
Correctional Health Care
Having represented the largest private correctional health care provider in the world for nearly 20 years, Phil has seen every type of correctional health care case imaginable. Delays in treatment, suicides, tasering cases, excited delirium death cases, medical negligence, class actions, and claims under brought under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 - Phil has been at the forefront of correctional health care cases since they started popping up with regularity in the 1990s.
Education
Phil has successfully represented Georgia school districts and officials in every manner of education law, including Title IX matters, IDEA cases, and FERPA matters to name a few.
Phil also serves as counsel to school districts in matters related to Georgia’s Fair Dismissal Practices Act. Phil currently serves as the Advisory Chair to the Defense Research Institute’s newly minted Education Substantive Law Group
Governmental Liability
In representing now well over 200 different public entities, Phil’s governmental liability practice covers every corner of Georgia, often in tandem with the firm’s regional offices in Georgia. He has successfully defended jury trials in every federal district in the state.
Phil works closely with public entities and officials as insurance, special, and outside counsel in all manner of 1983 litigation and state law matters. With a governmental practice ranging from police misconduct to First Amendment cases, from land use to wrongful death suits, and from high-speed pursuits to jail cases, he is a go-to lawyer in the highest exposure cases.
Phil is a widely known speaker and author on both the state and national levels. He served as Chairman of the powerful Defense Research Institute’s Governmental Liability Committee (where he presently serves on the Advisory Board), and also chaired the American Bar Association’s Sub-Committee on Civil Rights / First Amendment Liability. From 2011 to 2018 he served as the legal columnist for the Georgia Municipal Association’s flagship print publication Georgia Cities.
Labor & Employment
Over 30 years, Phil has successfully defended employment discrimination cases in every Georgia federal district. Phil has worked as insurance counsel, special counsel, outside counsel, and as an investigator within both the private and public sector communities.Georgia Trend magazine has awarded Phil the honor of being a member of Georgia’s Legal Elite in the area of labor and employment law.
Recognition
•AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
•Georgia Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers, 2003-2018
•Legal Elite, Georgia Trend Magazine
Presentations
Since 1996, Phil has regularly presented at numerous national and local engagements such as those for DRI, ABA, Georgia ICLE, ACHSA, USLAW, the Texas Bar Association, and others.
Publications
•Supreme Court Expands Fourth Amendment Protections
HBS Governmental Liability Blog; March 30, 2021
•Supreme Court Quietly Hammers Fifth Circuit in Conditions of Confinement Case, Reversing Qualified Immunity Ruling
HBS Governmental Liability Blog; November 5, 2020
•Supreme Court Takes on New Fourth Amendment Case
HBS Governmental Liability Blog; October 27, 2020
•Supreme Court Refuses To Stop Order To Move Inmates From Virus-Ravaged Prison
HBS Correctional Healthcare Blog; June 4, 2020
•COVID-19 In Jails And Prisons - US Supreme Court Asked To Stay Ohio Injunction Requiring Transfer Of Inmates
HBS Correctional Healthcare Blog; May 28, 2020
•US Supreme Court Ready To Sit Down To A Full Plate Of Qualified Immunity
HBS Governmental Liability Blog; May 6, 2020
•Yes, It’s True: You Cannot Sue A Dog- Or A Cat, For That Matter
HBS Governmental Liability Blog; April 29, 2020
•Of Dogs And Privacy: The Warrantless Seizure Of A Dog’s Blood, And All That Comes With It
HBS Governmental Liability Blog; April 15, 2020
•US Supreme Court Hands Down Pro-Law Enforcement 4th Amendment Ruling
HBS Governmental Liability Blog; April 7, 2020
•Gun Store Owner Sues Over Shelter-In-Place Ordinance
HBS Governmental Liability Blog; March 30, 2020
•Forced Labor in Privatized Prisons? Eleventh Circuit Cries Foul!
HBS Governmental Liability Blog; March 10, 2020
•The Modern Suicide Case In The Correctional Healthcare Setting
HBS Correctional Healthcare Blog; February 24, 2020
•2(B), or Not 2(B) - Show Me Your Papers Survives to See Another Day
DRI Today, 2016
•Today’s Correctional Healthcare World
White Paper, 2017
•Municipal Courts’ Practices Involving Incarceration of Indigent Defendants Under Fire
ACCG Annual Meeting, 2016
•Georgia’s Wistleblower Act as Applied to Local Governments
62nd Annual Institute for City and County Attorneys, 2015
•Georgia Municipal Association’s Georgia Cities
Legal Columnist, 2011-Present
•A Legal Fight, for Freedom: The Dred Scott Decision
For the Defense, 2011
•Defending the Indefensible: Racial Profiling Hits the Courts
For the Defense, 2000
•The Telecommunications Act of 1996
For the Defense, DRI, December 2008
•Public Entities and Public Officials’ Liability Under 42 U.S.C.
1981 and 1985
•Justices Give the War on Drugs a Significant Boost: The Year in the Fourth Amendment
The Urban Lawyer: The National Quarterly on State and Local Government Law 787-93, 1997
•Update on Fourth Amendment Search Cases: The New and Confused Framework
The Urban Lawyer: The National Quarterly on State and Local Government Law 679-700, 1996
In the Press
Supreme Court Expands Fourth Amendment Protections
March 30, 2021
Written by: Phillip E. Friduss, Esq. Getting hit by a bullet but still escaping in the getaway car implicates the Fourth Amendment after all sayeth Chief Justice Roberts in a heated 5-3 Opinion along ideological lines. Justice Amy Coney Barrett took no part in the case, which was argued in October before she took her
Supreme Court Quietly Hammers Fifth Circuit in Conditions of Confinement Case, Reversing Qualified Immunity Ruling
November 5, 2020
Written by: Phillip E. Friduss, Esq. This past Monday, in a per curiam decision (Justice Barrett not participating; Justice Alito concurring to suggest cert should not have been granted, but otherwise concurring with the judgment; and, Justice Thomas, dissenting without written opinion) the Supreme Court reversed and remanded a Fifth Circuit conditions of confinement qualified
Supreme Court Takes on New Fourth Amendment Case
October 27, 2020
Written by: Phillip E. Friduss, Esq. Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Lange v. California, Docket No. 20-18, where the issue has been coined in two different, but similar ways: Whether the pursuit of a person whom a police officer has probable cause to believe has committed a misdemeanor categorically qualifies as an
Supreme Court Refuses to Stop Order to Move Inmates From Virus-Ravaged Prison
June 4, 2020
Written by: Phillip E. Friduss, Esq. Thus is the title of Adam Liptak’s New York Times coverage of the Ohio inmate transfer case, Williams v Wilson case we reported on last week. The piece begins: “The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused a request from the Trump administration to block a trial judge’s ruling that had ordered
Services
Correctional Health Care
Education
Governmental Liability
Labor & Employment
How Phillip handles education matters
Phil Friduss is a Partner in the Atlanta office with strong practice ties to the Firm’s 6 Georgia regional offices. His practice focuses on the defense of high-exposure cases in the areas of governmental liability, labor and employment, correctional health care, and education. In over 30 years, Phil has had the pleasure of representing over 225 public entities. For the success of his team, Phil…
Who Phillip represents
Phillip reviews new inquiries case-by-case for education, employment, and general matters in Atlanta and the surrounding Georgia area.
Credentials
Credentials — where Phillip studied and practices
Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University
J.D. · 1989
Belmont College
B.A. · 1983
Jurisdictions
Phillip's state bar admissions
U.S. Court of Appeal
1990 · ACTIVE
Georgia
1989 · ACTIVE
Phillip studied at J.D. in Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University and B.A. in Belmont College.
Law school and academic background
Phillip completed J.D. in Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University and B.A. in Belmont College. Formal legal training is one signal of substantive knowledge — the day-to-day practice Phillip runs in Georgia is where that training gets applied to real client questions.
Recognition
Phillip's legal honors and published work
Phillip has received 1 formal recognition from bar associations, industry bodies, and peer-review services.
AV Preeminent
Legal awards and honors
AV Preeminent.
Locations
Phillip E. Friduss's office in Atlanta
Phillip's primary office is at Suite 2900, 191 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta, GA, 30303. In-person meetings are by appointment; a phone intake usually comes first.
Hall Booth Smith, P.C.
Suite 2900, 191 Peachtree Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 30303
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How to hire Phillip E. Friduss — what to expect in your first consultation
Working with a new education attorney should feel structured. Here's how the first two conversations with Phillip usually go, from the moment you request a consult to the day representation begins.
Consultation formats and pricing
Phillip charges for the initial consult. That fee is credited toward representation if you retain Phillip's office.
What to bring to your first meeting
Bring any documents you already have — police reports, medical records, filed pleadings, correspondence from an insurer, a copy of the contract at issue. If you're not sure, err on the side of bringing everything; Phillip will tell you what matters and what doesn't.
Questions to ask a education attorney in Atlanta, Georgia
A short list to run through before you commit: How many education matters have you handled in the last year? What's your fee structure? Who else in the office will work on this? What's your realistic estimate of timeline and range of outcomes? How do I reach you between meetings?
Fees & payment
Fees, payment methods, and consultation options for Phillip
Phillip discusses fees during intake so the arrangement fits the matter. Contingency, hourly, and flat-fee options are all common in education practice — ask which fits.
Hourly rates, contingency fees, and flat-fee options
Every education matter is priced differently. Simple document review might be a flat fee. Injury litigation is often contingency. Complex commercial disputes usually run hourly with a retainer. Phillip confirms the model in the engagement letter before any work starts.
Payment methods and payment plans
Phillip's office accepts standard payment methods. Ask about payment plans if the retainer is a stretch — many education practices work with clients on structured schedules.
Frequently asked
Frequently asked questions about Phillip E. Friduss
How much does it cost to hire Phillip for a education case?
Cost depends on the type of matter, the fee model (contingency, flat, hourly), and how contested the case becomes. Phillip walks through the likely range during the consult so there are no surprises.
Does Phillip offer a free consultation?
Phillip charges for the initial consult; that fee is credited toward representation if you retain Phillip's office. Some education attorneys offer free consults — check Phillip's current terms during booking.
How long do education cases in Georgia typically take?
Simple education matters can wrap in a few weeks; disputed cases can run 6–18 months from intake to resolution, longer if the matter goes to trial. Phillip gives a realistic estimate for your facts at the consult — vague answers here are a red flag.
Can Phillip take my case if I'm outside Atlanta?
Phillip is licensed in Georgia. Matters governed by Georgia law are the natural fit. Out-of-state matters are handled case-by-case, sometimes with local co-counsel. Ask during intake — Phillip will tell you if the case is a fit or refer you to someone closer to your court.
What should I bring to my first meeting with Phillip?
Bring every document that touches the dispute: contracts, correspondence, police or medical reports, filed pleadings, invoices, photographs, insurance letters. Also bring a written timeline of what happened, in your own words. Phillip will filter what matters — over-preparing at intake is always cheaper than needing a second meeting.
Is Phillip accepting new education clients right now?
Phillip's intake status shifts week to week. Submit the form; the office will confirm availability or refer the matter out.
Areas served
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