Jody Rhodes is an associate with the Environmental & Land Development and the Litigation & Trial Practice Groups. She focuses her practice on environmental and general litigation, toxic tort and regulatory issues.
Ms. Rhodes received her J.D., cum laude, from the University Of Georgia School Of Law in 2009. While at Georgia Law, she served as notes editor for the Georgia Law Review. She was also the recipient of the 2009 William K. Meadow Award, an annual award made by fellow students and faculty to a graduate “who plans to practice law, who best exemplifies the integrity, sense of responsibility and high standards of the legal profession, and who has a keen sense of humor to afford a proper perspective to the resolution of legal problems." Ms. Rhodes received her B.A. in anthropology from the University of Georgia in 2000. Prior to law school, she managed aviation-related properties in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Following law school, Ms. Rhodes served as a law clerk to the Honorable Keith Starrett in the Southern District of Mississippi Hattiesburg Division.
Ms. Rhodes is a member of the State Bar of Georgia.
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Alston & Bird recently helped its clients U.S. Pipe & Foundry Co. and Walter Energy defend their March 2012 appellate victory in Solutia, Inc., et al. v. McWane, Inc., et al., 672 F.3d 1230 (11th Cir. 2012) from potential review by the United States Supreme Court.
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