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Tom Withers was an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief of the Criminal Section for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia from 1990 to 1998.

Attorney Tom Withers has achieved numerous outstanding accomplishments in private practice and previously 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 high-profile clients in complex Federal and State criminal proceedings throughout Georgia and the nation.

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

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

Mr. Withers has also had notable victories in civil litigation including class actions, complex civil litigation, medical malpractice, and wrongful death cases. Notably, he has helped develop and served as a class counsel for a 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 across the country. He has lectured on numerous occasions regarding topics in federal criminal defense and criminal law.

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