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A Fellow of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Tish has litigated a wide range of fiduciary disputes, including breach of fiduciary duty actions brought by beneficiaries against executors and trustees (on both sides), including financial institutions; will/trust interpretation cases; trustee removal cases; trust modification matters; contested conservatorships; trust issues in divorce cases; matters involving the appropriate measure of fiduciary compensation; cases involving the alleged failure to notify or communicate with beneficiaries; cases involving statutes of limitation with respect to actions of fiduciaries; and matters involving the alleged malfeasance of an agent under a financial power of attorney. She has also handled cases involving the Attorney General of Georgia and the oversight of charitable trusts.\nTish has handled appeals before the Georgia appellate courts, including oral arguments. Tish represents clients in commercial and fiduciary litigation, as well as litigation involving real estate transactions and governmental matters. \nPast Publications\n\nCo-author, \"Emerging Issues in Fiduciary Litigation,\" Estate Planning Institute (2012)\nCo-author, \"It's Not About the Teacups: Proper Estate Planning May Prevent Family Blowups,\" Atlanta Woman Magazine (2008)\nCo-author, \"The Modern Estate Planning Lawyer: Avoiding the Maelstrom of Malpractice Claims,\" Probate and Property, American Bar Association (2008)\n\nPast Speaking Engagements\n\n\"Can you Trust Trusts? 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For two decades, he has represented clients in the technology, financial services, insurance, food and beverage, energy, and healthcare industries in their most sensitive class actions, consumer protection matters, and business disputes. He is a leading authority on the defense of high-stakes consumer class actions and \"viral\" litigation and government enforcement action.  \nZach has led the defense in hundreds of class actions and in consumer protection litigation and investigations launched by government actors. His matters almost always implicate core business practices, critical public relations considerations, and federal or state regulatory scrutiny. Zach has defeated class certification or won on the merits in cases asserting claims under the federal and state RICO statutes, California's Unfair Competition Law, New York's GBL sections 349 and 350, the Consumer Fraud Acts in Illinois and New Jersey, and Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, among others. 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Executives in regulated industries -- especially life sciences, healthcare, defense, technology, financial services, artificial intelligence, and government contracting -- turn to Amelia for her current insights about domestic and international law enforcement trends.\nPrior to rejoining King \u0026amp; Spalding, Amelia served as Deputy Chief of Staff to the Director of the FBI, and as Senior Counsel to the U.S. Deputy Attorney General (DAG) at the Department of Justice.  She also served as a federal criminal prosecutor in the Financial Crimes \u0026amp; Public Corruption Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. \nAt the FBI, Amelia advised the Director and FBI leadership on all aspects of investigations regarding complex financial fraud, healthcare fraud, procurement fraud and collusion, trade sanctions and export controls, cyber and security-related critical incidents, official corruption, counterintelligence, and issues before the National Security Council.  Amelia also prepared and advised the FBI Director during numerous congressional hearings, including at “members only” classified briefings to the full U.S. Congress. \nAs Senior Counsel in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General from 2017-2018, Amelia managed a department-wide portfolio of corporate enforcement priorities, compliance initiatives, and case-specific issues arising across Main Justice divisions and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, as well as multi-agency efforts with SEC, CFTC, DHS, HHS, FDA, and various agency Offices of Inspector General.  Amelia served as the first Chair of the Corporate Enforcement \u0026amp; Accountability Working Group, a leadership committee responsible for guiding the DOJ’s strategy and policies to combat corporate criminal and civil fraud nationwide. She played an integral part in the development and implementation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Corporate Enforcement Policy and served as the principal staff counselor to the DAG on approvals of corporate compliance monitorships.\nIn private practice, Amelia is experienced in steering responses to oversight requests by congressional committees in the U.S. House and Senate. She also prepares business leaders to give testimony at televised hearings before federal and state legislative bodies.\nAmelia is a member of the invitation-only Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court for white collar practitioners in Washington, D.C. She serves on the boards of the Atlanta Police Foundation and The Goizueta Foundation.  \nAmelia graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, with a degree from the School of Public \u0026amp; International Affairs.  She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and was a member of The Yale Law Journal. 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