Gainesville, GA Lawyers

Criminal Defense Law

505 Green St, Gainesville, GA 30501, USA

Blake A. Poole, founder of The Law Offices of Blake A. Poole, LLC, is an attorney who understands overcoming real-life challenges in a strategic, smart and dedicated manner. As a former Army infantryman from 2005-2008, he approaches his clients with respect and handles their cases with dedication and integrity. Following his 15-month tour in Iraq and honorable discharge from the Army, Blake received his undergraduate degree from North Georgia College and State University and his law degree from Georgia State University. Blake uses his skills and life experiences to counsel and guide our legal team. We take a straightforward approach with an emphasis on transparency and strong client relationships. Our goal is to deliver a level of service that makes every client feel as though they are our only client.

Family and Divorce Law

200 West Academy Street, Gainesville, GA 30501

Family and Divorce Law

125 Maple Street NW, Gainesville, GA 30501

Catherine Hicks is a native Atlantan, a 1986 graduate of the University of Georgia (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and a 1989 graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law.. She was awarded the full academic Castellow Scholarship to UGA Law School. Catherine was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 1989 and joined Fox Chandler in 1992. Catherine is a member of the Gainesville-Northeastern Bar Association (Vice President, 2016-2017; Secretary, 2014-2016), The E. Wycliff Orr Inn of Court, and the Family Law Section of the Georgia Bar Association. Catherine is a former Special Assistant Attorney General. She has been an active member of the State Bar's High School Mock Trial Committee since 1991 (Chair, 1996-1997). Catherine's community and civic involvement has included: Hall-Dawson CASA Board of Directors; Hall County United Way (Attorneys Section Chair); Children's Center for Hope and Healing Board of Directors; Northeast Georgia Medical Center Auxiliary; Enota Elementary PTA Board Vice President; Centennial Elementary PTA Board Secretary; Pinecrest Academy Touchdown Club Officer; Gainesville High School and Pinecrest Academy mock trial team coach. Catherine and her husband Brian are the parents of two sons who are also attorneys. Divorce and other kinds of family law litigation are frequently very stressful. Catherine Hicks focuses her practice exclusively on the area of family law and on helping her clients navigate the often complex, stressful situations with which they are faced with compassion, experience and attention to detail.

Personal Injury Law

1370 Thompson Bridge Rd, Suite 300, Gainesville, GA 30501

Bob has been the attorney for clients in cases involving: car accidents, tractor-trailer collisions, product liability, slip and fall, work related injuries, nursing home abuse, Dram shop cases, family law matters and more. He started his career defending claims on behalf of Insurance Companies. He has tried Personal Injury, Contract, Divorce, and Criminal cases to Jury verdict. He has tried countless deprivation (now dependency), and termination actions in Juvenile Court where he presented cases to protect abused and neglected children. As a result of his efforts, he has been named the Special Assistant Attorney General of the Year in 2002 and 2005. Bob helps clients that have been injured as a result of someone else?s negligence or intentional act. Bob is diligent in his representation of bringing justice to those who have been injured or have lost loved as a result of an accident. Bob is admitted to the Georgia State Bar. He graduated from Auburn University before attending Mercer University for law school.

Civil Litigation

800 Jesse Jewell SW Pkwy, Suite 100, GAINESVILLE, GA 30501-4212

Kate Cook is a partner at Cook Law Group, LLC in Gainesville, Georgia. Her work at the firm involves researching and writing briefs in complex litigation, along with oral argument at the trial and appellate levels. She and Matthew E. Cook established the firm in 2013. Cook studied Russian language and literature at the University of the South, earning her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in 1998. A Biehl Grant supported her study of urban housing privatization in Russia in 1997. She went on to the Walter F. George School of Law as a Woodruff Scholar and received her J.D. magna cum laude in 2002. Her first position after law school was a clerkship with U.S. District Judge Clay D. Land in the Middle District of Georgia’s Columbus Division. From 2002 to 2004, she researched and drafted internal memoranda and orders and assisted with trials and hearings. Nine years at Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer in Columbus followed. There, she prepared trial and appellate briefs and managed filed cases, among them business disputes and class actions. In addition to trial-court arguments, Cook has argued before Georgia’s Court of Appeals and Supreme Court and the federal Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Her published work includes co-authored Mercer Law Review articles on trial practice and procedure. She also taught Advanced Contracts Drafting as an adjunct professor at the Walter F. George School of Law from 2013 to 2016.

Family and Divorce Law

303 Jesse Jewell Pkwy, suite 200, Gainesville, GA 30501-2900

Lydia J. Sartain served for nine years as District Attorney of the Georgia Northeastern Judicial Circuit. She also served as Solicitor for the State Court of Hall County. A native of Blairsville, GA, Lydia graduated from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University. In 1998, Georgia Trend magazine listed her as one of the state’s “Forty Under Forty” leaders, and in 2006 she was named one of Georgia’s top trial lawyers. Launching her own practice in 2019 provided Lydia the opportunity to focus on what she knows best – Family Law and Mediation. Prior to her appointment as DA, Lydia acted as Director of Georgia’s Children and Youth Council under Governor Zell Miller. In this position she oversaw grant programs to prevent juvenile delinquency and monitored all of the juvenile detention facilities across Georgia as part of the Department of Justice. In 1999, Governor Roy Barnes appointed Lydia to serve on the State Board of Public Safety where she supported the efforts of all public safety agencies to reduce crime, apprehend those who commit them, and respond to disaster.

Personal Injury Law

1370 Thompson Bridge Road, Suite 300, Gainesville, GA 30501

John Robert “Bob” Coleman, Jr. is a founding partner of the law firm of Coleman, Chambers & Rogers, LLP. Bob and his family reside in Gainesville and he is well-known and respected in the community and throughout the State of Georgia. Over the past two decades, Bob has been the attorney for clients in cases involving: car accidents, tractor-trailer collisions, product liability, slip and fall, work related injuries, nursing home abuse, Dram shop cases, family law matters and more. He started his career defending claims on behalf of Insurance Companies. He has tried Personal Injury, Contract, Divorce, and Criminal cases to Jury verdict.