Mr. Leon Strickland Jones

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Leon S. Jones</strong> is a partner and co-founder of the law firm of Jones &amp; Walden, LLC in Atlanta and concentrates his practice in the areas of bankruptcy, creditor rights and general business litigation. Before forming Jones &amp; Walden, LLC, he worked at such Georgia firms as the Macon office of Arnall, Golden &amp; Gregory; Burton &amp; Anderson; and Lawson, Davis, Pickren &amp; Seydell. Mr. Jones has served as lead counsel in numerous commercial trials and evidentiary hearings. He also has extensive experience in post-judgment collection matters. In addition to his law practice in the courts of the State of Georgia, Mr. Jones has litigated in the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Georgia. He has lectured extensively regarding bankruptcy and related litigation, and he speaks often to various trade groups on issues involving bankruptcy-related topics. Mr. Jones has a particular focus on individual chapter 11 cases and fraudulent-transfer law. Mr. Jones received his B.A. in 1985 in economics and political science from the University of Georgia, and his J.D. in 1998 from the University of Georgia School of Law, where he served as executive chairman of the Moot Court Board, as a member of the Grey’s Inn Moot Court Team and as a member of the Jessup Competitive Moot Court Team. He also served on the editorial board of the <em>Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law</em>. He also was selected as a member of the Order of Barristers and the Joseph Henry Lumpkin American Inn of Court.</p>