Joe Loveland is a senior litigation partner in King & Spalding’s Atlanta office with more than 30 years of trial experience. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he is listed in the Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA’s list of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Corporate Counsel Magazine’s list of the “Nation’s Top Business Litigators,” and a Top 100 Georgia Super Lawyer. A member of the bars of both Georgia and Texas, he has served as trial and appellate counsel on wide-ranging matters.
Mr. Loveland has been a member of the Bar of the Eleventh Circuit since the Circuit was founded and a member of the Bar of the Fifth Circuit since 1978. He is also a member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court as well as the Fourth and Sixth Circuit Courts of Appeal, and has argued in numerous state appellate courts, including the Supreme Courts of Georgia and Tennessee and the Texas Court of Appeals.
Mr. Loveland has served as head of the firm’s Professional Services Liability Practice and is a frequent speaker at professional meetings, including speaking on “Professionalism in Appellate Litigation in Georgia,” “Damages in Business Litigation in Georgia,” “Defeating Class Certification,” and “Class Actions Against The Insurance Industry.”
Mr. Loveland graduated with highest honors from the University of North Carolina and received his law degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He has served as Chair of the firm’s Litigation Department and has been elected to the firm’s Policy Committee on three occasions.
Mr. Loveland was a founding member of Georgia Appleseed and currently serves as Chair of its Board of Directors. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and of the Lawyer’s Committee of the National Center for State Courts and serves as Chair of the American College of Trial Lawyers’ Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Committee.
