Dawn M Jones

Dawn Jones is a senior attorney in King & Spalding’s Tort and Environmental Practice Group.  An ICU registered nurse by training, with more than a decade of critical care nursing experience, Ms. Jones applies her medical training and background to defend manufacturers of pharmaceutical products and consumer goods in product liability lawsuits.

Prior to joining King & Spalding, Ms. Jones served as an Associate General Counsel for the Grady Health System, the largest non-profit, public hospital system in the state of Georgia that includes Grady Memorial Hospital, a hospital for children, a nursing home, numerous outpatient clinics, and several doctors offices, engaging more than 5800 employees.  In that position, Ms. Jones actively defended the Grady Health System in a range of litigation, including medical and nursing malpractice lawsuits and employment cases, and provided regular counsel and advice to administration and direct care givers concerning risk management, regulatory, and patient care issues.  She participated on several standing and ad hoc hospital committees, initiating and revising system-wide policies, procedures and practices in collaborative, multi-disciplinary settings.

Memberships

• Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys (past President)
  
  
• Gate City Bar Association (past Board of Directors)
  
  
• Georgia Association for Women Lawyers
  
  
• Advisory Council to the Health Law Partnership
  
  
• Atlanta Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (Board of Directors)
  
  
• Atlanta Bar Association Law School Outreach Committee (past Chair)
  
  
• Atlanta Bar Association Atlanta Council of Younger Lawyers Section (past Board of Directors)
  
  
• Atlanta Bar Foundation (Board of Directors)
  
  
• Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc. (Board of Directors)
  
  
• Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism
  
  
• Georgia Election Protection Legal Coordinating Committee (past Co-Chair)
  
  
• Multi-Bar Leadership Council (past Chair)
  
  
• State Bar of Georgia, Committee to Promote Inclusion in the Profession
  
  
• State Bar of Georgia, Board of Governors, Atlanta Circuit Post 16
  
  
• State Bar of Georgia, Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, District 5 (Chair)

Registration and Certification

• Nursing licenses in Virginia, the District of Columbia and Georgia