Attorney Tom Withers has achieved numerous outstanding successes in private practice and before that as the Chief of the Criminal Section for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Mr. Withers has successfully represented corporations, executives, businessmen, public officials, government employees, judges, attorneys and other clients in high-profile and complex Federal and State criminal proceedings throughout Georgia and the nation.

 As Chief of the Criminal Division and an Assistant United States Attorney, Mr. Withers served as lead counsel and was responsible for convictions in the nationally-followed prosecution of ABC Home Health Care, the largest privately held home health care provider in the United States, which was charged with defrauding Medicare of millions in reimbursements. Prior to entering the United States Attorney's Office, Mr. Withers was a successful partner with Oliver, Maner and Gray.

Mr. Withers employs his experience and skill at every stage of the representation, and has had remarkable successes in negotiating the termination of criminal investigations prior to indictment, in winning dismissals of indictments and in obtaining not guilty verdicts for his clients.  In other cases, Mr. Withers has won probated or greatly reduced sentences for clients, and has successfully pursued appeals for clients in Federal and State courts of appeals.  Mr. Withers approaches each matter as if it were going to trial with a painstaking attention to preparation and detail.

Mr. Withers has also had notable victories in civil litigation, including class actions, complex civil litigation, medical malpractice and wrongful death cases, where we have achieved remarkable success. Mr. Withers has also helped to develop, and served as class counsel for, groundbreaking, nationwide class action litigation in the mortgage industry.           

Mr. Withers is admitted in Georgia Federal and State courts and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and has appeared as counsel in jurisdictions around the country.  He has lectured on numerous occasions on topics in federal criminal defense and criminal law.  Mr. Withers is the author of Federal Criminal Defense Blog, www.federalcriminaldefenseblog.com , a valuable resource of information on news and developments in criminal law for practitioners and the public alike.

Mr. Withers was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He went on to complete both his undergraduate studies and his Juris Doctorate at the University of Georgia.