D'Avanzo, Joseph

Render C. Freeman, Esq. has dedicated his career to helping injured victims hold wrongdoers financially responsible for their carelessness. As a trial attorney, Mr. Freeman has a broad range of experience in litigating complex disputes, including wrongful death, personal injury, products liability, motor vehicle and trucking collisions, medical malpractice, premises liability, negligent hiring and negligent security. Mr. Freeman has been lead trial counsel in jury trials all over Georgia from Federal District Court in Atlanta to smaller Superior Courts in the remote corners of our State. 

Before joining Andersen, Tate & Carr, PC in 2005, Mr. Freeman's was a partner in an Atlanta firm for eleven years where he defended proprietors and trucking companies, including Marathon Oil and Pepsi Bottling Group.  His extensive experience as a defense lawyer gives him unique strategic insights into defense tactics that enable him to achieve a successful outcome for his injured clients.

Since 2004, Mr. Freeman has carried an "AV" rating from the Martindale-Hubbell National Legal Directory, the highest such designation given for both lawyer competence and integrity. He is an active member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and the American Association for Justice, regularly attending advanced seminars to hone his litigation and trial skills.

Mr. Freeman was admitted to practice in Georgia in 1994 and is admitted to practice in all Georgia courts, the United States District Court for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Freeman and his family have lived in the Johns Creek community in North Fulton County (now the City of Johns Creek) since 1995 where he is an active member of The Church of the Hills Presbyterian Church, is an active member in the Rotary Club of Johns Creek, where he is serving as the 2009/2010 President, is an active member of the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce, where he recently served as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors from 2006 to 2009.

Mr. Freeman was born and raised in Atlanta where he graduated from The Lovett School in 1985. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Colgate University in 1989. He then attended the University of Georgia School of Law where he received his Juris Doctor in 1994. For his third year of law school, Mr. Freeman was a visiting student at Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn, New York where he studied securities law and commercial transactions.

Mr. Freeman has been a registered Mediator and Arbitrator with the State of Georgia since 2010.