Member Profile: Penn Payne

Penn Payne
Penn Payne, LLC
3586 Tuxedo Park, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30305

Tel: (404) 841-3295
Fax: (404) 841-3296
Website: www.pennpayne.com

Penn Payne regularly travels out of state to Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee

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ADR Services Include:

Mediation; Arbitration; Early Neutral Evaluation; Fact Finding

 

Penn Payne has substantive case experience in the following areas...

ADA Disability
Civil Rights
Commercial/Business
Contract Disputes
Discrimination
EEOC
Employment
Partnerships
Sexual Harassment
Wage & Hour/FMLA

 

BIOGRAPHICAL:

Penn Payne serves as a mediator and arbitrator for employment, restrictive covenant, contract and commercial disputes and conducts independent investigations of employee complaints for corporations or their outside counsel.

By temperament and training, Penn is ideally suited to serve in these neutral capacities. Known for her fairness and skill in obtaining the trust of each party, she has cultivated the ability to be open-minded and to analyze all sides of a dispute. She has broad experience in employment and restrictive covenant law, and her proficiency as an arbitrator, mediator and investigator is based on 28 years of litigating disputes for both plaintiffs and defendants and providing sound business judgment and common sense solutions to her clients.

EDUCATION:

Penn earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and her law degree with honors from Emory University School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and taught legal research and writing to first-year students.

Memberships & Affiliations

Recognized in: The Best Lawyers in America; Who's Who Legal USA - Management Labor and Employment; Who's Who Legal USA - Arbitration; Georgia's Legal Elite published by Georgia Trend Magazine; and The Guide to the Best Attorneys in Georgia published by Atlanta Magazine and Georgia Super Lawyers (in the areas of employment litigation and alternative dispute resolution).
Formerly served as:
  • Board Member and Board President, Federal Defender Program
  • Board Member, Atlanta Bar Foundation
  • Atlanta Bar Association - Member of Board of Directors of Labor and Employment Section
  • Emory Law School Alumni Council
  • State Bar's Rules of Evidence Study Committee
  • Master of the Lamar American Inn of Court, Executive Committee member

Rates

$300 per hour or fraction thereof for mediation preparation and mediation session and for arbitration rulings, study time and arbitration hearing.

 

Penn Payne is a member of our GA chapter, Georgia Academy of Mediators & Arbitrators, the state's premier roster of certified attorney-mediators. The NCASCM profile includes more specific local information, such as counties and regions served, and can be visited directly at www.georgiamediators.org/penn-payne

 

 
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