Andy Bayman is the Practice Group Leader of King & Spalding’s Tort Litigation and Environmental Practice Group. The Practice Group, with over 125 lawyers in five offices (including a state-of-the-art Discovery Center), is one of the largest practice groups of its kind in the U.S. and is devoted exclusively to defending tort litigation. The Practice Group offers a complete array of expertise -- from the cost-effective collection of documents, the work-up of scientific and other experts, and a sophisticated motion practice -- to trial and appeal including in class actions and MDLs in notoriously dangerous jurisdictions. The Practice Group was recognized by The American Lawyer in 2004 as one of the top three product liability practices in the country and Chambers USA has placed the Practice Group in its top tier of such practices nationwide as has The Legal 500. The Practice Group was also named to the National Law Journal’s “2006 Defense Hot List” of top ten firms with cutting-edge, successful strategies. King & Spalding was one of only three firms to be named to the “Defense Hot List” in both 2005 and 2006.

Mr. Bayman recently completed a three year term on King & Spalding’s Policy Committee, the firm’s management committee, and has served in numerous other leadership positions within the firm. Mr. Bayman chairs King & Spalding’s Pharmaceutical-Medical Device-Biotech industry practice initiative.

Memberships

• Served as the 2004-05 Chair of the State Bar of Georgia’s Product Liability Section.
  
  
• Presents frequently on product liability issues and trial skills as well as on emerging issues in product liability litigation and current developments in evidence law at Georgia Bar and national seminars. He gave a model closing argument at the ABA’s Emerging Issues in Automobile Product Liability Litigation in Phoenix, AZ in 1993 and at the State Bar of Georgia’s 11th Annual Product Liability Seminar in 2002.
  
  
• Served on various committees of the Lawyer’s Club of Atlanta and is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel, the Defense Research Institute and is a Fellow of the Lawyers’ Foundation of Georgia.

• Ranked as a top defense lawyer in the nation in the Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel editions for 2009-2010.
  
  
• In 2009, he was ranked as a top defense lawyer in the nation in the Super Lawyers 2009 Corporate Counsel edition.
  
  
• In 2006-2009, he was selected by Law & Politics and Atlanta magazine as a Georgia “Super Lawyer” who has attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement based on an extensive survey of Georgia lawyers.
  
  
• Recognized in Legal 500 as having “substantial lead trial expertise” as an “excellent lawyer” who “gets results at a great value in automotive and pharmaceutical products litigation.”
  
  
• Named one of “the Best Lawyers in America,” 2006-2009.

• Varner and Bayman: “Putting the Cart Before the Horse: Providing a Privilege Index Under Proposed Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5),” ABA National Institute on Emerging Issues in Automobile Product Liability Litigation (March 19, 1991).
  
  
• Bayman: “Strict Liability for Defective Ideas in Publications”, 42 Vand. L. Rev. 557 (1989).

• Admitted to practice in all of the state and federal courts of Georgia as well as in the Supreme Court of the United States, the Third, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits and in the United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Central District of Illinois, Western District of Michigan, and the District of Colorado.
  
  
• Has been admitted pro hac vice in the Courts of Alaska, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming.

• Received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law where he was a Patrick Wilson Scholar and a member of the Vanderbilt Law Review.
  
  
• Graduated, magna cum laude, from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Mortar Board and Omicron Delta Kappa. He was one of the original recipients of the President’s Award for Distinguished Service to Miami University.