Experience

Cindy Tolbert has successfully defended clients in litigation matters for over twenty years. She specializes in the representation of individuals and businesses in areas of commercial litigation, construction litigation, product liability, mass tort litigation, medical malpractice and catastrophic personal injury cases.

Ms. Tolbert has served as national coordinating, regional and local trial counsel for manufacturers, insurance companies, refineries and chemical plants involved in litigation. She has managed litigation of thousands of cases, coordinating local counsel, directing discovery and implementing strategic defensive planning. She was admitted to The Mississippi State Bar in 1986, the Louisiana State Bar in 1990 and the State Bar of Georgia in 2006.  

Presentations and Publications:

• "Out From Silence", winner of 19th Annual Fiction Writing Competition, Georgia Bar Journal, June 2010.

• "Electronic Discovery in the Work Environment", Georgia Safety, Health & Environmental Conference, October 2008.

• "Global Warming Litigation - A review of current statutory and common law claims and anticipated trends", presentation for web salon seminar:  Climate Change - The shift from policy discussion to legal issue of risk management, March 25, 2008.

• "Electronic Discovery in the Work Environment", Georgia State Society of Human Resource Managers, June 18, 2008.

• "The Attorney-Client Privilege in the Corporate Setting", Professionalism Perspectives, Spring 2007.

• "Alms for the Poor: A Historical Analysis of a System of Disgrace," Poverty Law Review, Loyola University, New Orleans, Spring 1995.

• Speaker, "Louisiana Housing Legislation," Legislative Conference sponsored by Louisiana for Low Income Housing Today, November 1994.