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Robert
W. Chestney
2004 Georgia Super Lawyer®.
Only
two lawyers in the entire state of Georgia were selected
by their peers to be Super Lawyers® for 2004 in
the limited area of DUI/DWI Defense--Bob Chestney and
his partner, Mike Hawkins.
Board Certified by the National College for
DUI Defense.
Only four lawyers in the entire state of Georgia are
board certified by the prestigious National College
for DUI Defense--Bob Chestney and Mike Hawkins are two
of them.
Mr. Chestney has been a member of the Georgia "Defense
of Drinking Drivers" group since its inception
in the early 1990's. This organization of lawyers who
vigorously defend DUI charges presented Mr. Chestney
with LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD in 2000 and honored
him again in 2002 as DUI LAWYER OF THE YEAR.
Mr. Chestney has been a criminal defense lawyer for
28 years, and since 1993 his practice has been exclusively
devoted to defending DUI and Vehicular Homicide cases.
He has handled over 1000 DUI cases, and has actually
been lead counsel in about 100 DUI jury trials, and
well over 200 bench trials. However, the majority of
his cases have been successfully resolved without a
trial (see our "Results" page). Since 1995,
Mr. Chestney has been recognized by Martindale-Hubbell
with their highest "av" rating, and is presently
listed in their Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.
In addition to his trial work, Mr. Chestney
maintains an aggressive appellate practice, having personally
handled such significant cases as:
- Jorgensen v. State, 207 Ga.App. 545 (1993)
- State v. Causey, 215 Ga.App. 85 (1994
- Morgan v. State, 267 Ga. 203 (1996)
- Sayers v. State, 226 Ga.App. 645 (1997)
- Fantasia v. State, 268 Ga. 512 (1997)
- Thompson v. State, 229 Ga.App. 526 (1997)
- State v. Fischer, 230 Ga.App. 613 (1998)
- Price v. State, 269 Ga. 222 (1998)
- Klink v. State, 272 Ga. 605 (2000).
Mr. Chestney is a founding member of the National
College for DUI Defense and served on their Board of
Regents from 1995 to 2002. He is also former chair of
the Criminal Law Section of the Atlanta Bar Association
and served on its Board of Directors from 1999 to 2003.
He is a member of the Atlanta Bar Association, the Cobb
County Bar Association, the Gwinnett County Bar Association,
the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers,
the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers,
and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
In addition to serving on the faculty of the National
College for DUI Defense, held at the Harvard Law School
each summer since 1995, Mr. Chestney has lectured on
DUI Defense at programs and seminars in Georgia, Alabama,
Florida, South Carolina, Missouri, Arizona, Hawaii and
Nevada, including the National NACDL DUI Seminar in
2000 and 2003, as well as the National "Getting
Tough on DWI" Seminar put on by the Minnesota Society
for Criminal Justice in 2004. Mr. Chestney chaired the
Georgia "Defense of Drinking Driver" programs
for ICLE of Georgia in 1995, 1996 and 1997.
EDUCATION:
West Georgia College, B.S. Physics/Mathematics, 1969.
Florida State University, M.S. Mathematics, 1970.
Woodrow Wilson College of Law, J.D. Magna Cum Laude,
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