Bradley M. Harmon

Partner

200 East Saint Julian Street
PO Box 9848
Savannah, GA 31412-0048

Tel 912.236.0261
Fax 912.236.4936

Brad Harmon is a partner in HunterMaclean’s litigation practice. For more than 20 years, he has helped businesses solve complex challenges and manage risk in fast-moving, regulated, and operationally-sophisticated industries. His work spans business and contract litigation, health care litigation, class action litigation, construction disputes, and fiduciary and shareholder matters. He also advises clients on potential litigation consequences of transactions, contract structures, and operational decisions. Clients value his direct but measured communication style and his ability to cut through complexity to identify what actually matters in a dispute.

Brad has served as outside general counsel to a regional healthcare system, as well as to biofuel and renewable fuel manufacturers. He has led several high-stakes, “bet-the-company” litigation matters, serving as lead trial and appellate counsel in major commercial disputes across a broad range of industries. Earlier in his career, he represented medical providers and trucking companies in defending personal injury lawsuits.

He has held key leadership positions at the Firm, including serving as managing partner from 2016 to 2024, and as a member of the management committee from 2012 to 2024. At age 38, he was the youngest managing partner elected in the Firm’s history. In this position, Brad led the HunterMaclean management committee, guided Firm strategy, set long-term vision, and directed Firm operations, while still maintaining a robust law practice. He now uses the skills honed during his Firm leadership to counsel business clients.

His legal expertise has earned him numerous honors, including repeated recognition as a Georgia Trend Magazine Legal Elite, selection to Georgia Super Lawyers, and inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America. He was previously recognized as an “On the Rise” attorney by the Fulton County Daily Report and selected to Georgia Trend Magazine’s “40 Under 40.”

He is licensed in Georgia and Tennessee. A native of Sevierville, Tennessee, Brad earned his B.A. from the University of Tennessee and his J.D. from Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law. Outside of work, he is an avid reader and enjoys running and cheering on his son Will at swim meets.


Experience

Published Opinions

  • Ruth, et al. v. Cherokee Funding, LLC, et al., 304 Ga. 574 (2018) (Ga. Oct. 22, 2018, No. S17G2021)
  • Cherokee Funding v. Ruth, 342 Ga. App. 404 (2017)
  • Douglas Asphalt Company v. Martin Marietta Aggregates et al., 339 Ga. App. 435 (2016)
  • Circle K Stores, Inc. v. T.O.H. Associates, Ltd., 318 Ga. App. 753 (2012)

Representative Engagements

  • Currently serving as outside general counsel for the wind-down of the largest healthcare system in the area with $600 million in annual revenue, after the sale of the system’s assets to a publicly-traded company.
  • Currently serving as outside general counsel for biofuel and renewable fuel production companies.
  • Lead counsel in bet-the-company litigation related to the design and construction of a biofuel manufacturing plant.
  • Lead trial counsel and co-appellate counsel in successful defense of a class action challenging the legality of Georgia’s litigation funding industry under the Georgia Industrial Loan Act and the Georgia Payday Lending Act.
  • Lead trial and appellate counsel in the successful defense of a large publicly traded supplier of aggregate and heavy building materials against a $32 million claim arising out of supply of materials for multiple large road construction projects (summary judgment obtained and upheld on appeal).
  • Representation of manufacturers and logistics companies in negotiation of 3PL and warehousing contracts.
  • Defense counsel in a large number of toxic tort/environmental lawsuits arising from the largest fish kill in Georgia history.
  • Representation of creditor in adversary action. In Re Douglas Asphalt Co., et al., Chapter 7, S.D. Ga. Bankr. (2009).
  • Successful representation and resolution of shareholder suit against an international third party logistics provider.
  • Defense verdict at trial in a personal injury premises liability claim. Kea v. Memorial Health Univ. Medical Center.

Community Work

  • Beacon Project: Advisory Board, Past Member
  • Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce: Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Current Vice-Chair; CEO Council
  • Union Mission: Board of Directors
  • Savannah Technical College Foundation: Board of Trustees, Past Member
  • Leadership Savannah: Class of 2010-2011
  • Savannah Quarterback Club
  • United Way of the Coastal Empire: Attorneys Division, Co-Chairman, 2010-2011
  • Live Oak Public Libraries Foundation: Past President

Credentials

Education

Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law: J.D., 2002
University of Tennessee: B.A., 1999

Affiliations

  • State Bar of Georgia
  • Tennessee Bar Association
  • Georgia Defense Lawyers Association
  • Savannah Bar Association
  • SBA Young Lawyer’s Division: Executive Committee, 2004-2005
  • Transportation Lawyers Association: Past Member
  • American Bar Association: Past Member

Recognition

Best Lawyers in America: Construction Litigation, 2018-2026
Best Lawyers is the oldest and most highly-respected peer review guide to the legal profession worldwide. A listing in Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both clients and legal professionals as a significant honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers.

Georgia Super Lawyers: Business Litigation, 2018-2026
Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.

Georgia Trend Magazine Legal Elite: 2016 & 2020-2021
Georgia Trend Magazine’s annual listing of Georgia’s top attorneys, selected by their peers. The list includes eight practice areas: business law; personal injury litigation; criminal law; labor and employment; taxes, estates and trusts; bankruptcy and creditors’ rights; family law; and general practice/trial law.

Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star: 2007, 2009-2011 & 2013-2017
Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.

Georgia Trend Magazine’s 40 Under 40: 2015
Georgia Trend’s “40 Under 40” honorees are outstanding Georgians under the age of 40 who represent the areas of business, government, politics, non-profits, conservation, education, and science. Nominations are made each year by Georgia Trend readers throughout the state. Only 40 people are selected to be part of this accomplished group.

Fulton County Daily Report’s On the Rise Attorney: 2013
The Fulton County Daily Report publishes an elite list of “On the Rise” Attorneys each year, recognizing 40 of the state’s leading lawyers under the age of 40. Winners are nominated and selected based on their contributions to law in Georgia.

GenerationNEXT: Savannah’s Rising Stars of Business, 2013
In their annual GenerationNEXT: Savannah’s Rising Stars of Business competition, Savannah Magazine and Business in Savannah recognize 21 local business and community leaders under the age of 40. The winners are nominated and selected based upon their business accomplishments and humanitarian efforts.

Martindale-Hubbell: AV Rated
The Martindale-Hubbell® PEER REVIEW RATINGS™ are an objective indicator of a lawyer’s high ethical standards and professional ability, generated from evaluations of lawyers by other members of the bar and the judiciary in the United States and Canada.

Licensed In

Georgia
Tennessee

Insights

Presentations

Products Liability
Presented by John Hewson and Brad Harmon to a HunterMaclean client in Savannah, Georgia, on April 27, 2016.

Products Liability
Presented by John Hewson and Brad Harmon to a HunterMaclean client in Savannah, Georgia, on July 24, 2014.

Changes to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 45 and 37
Presented to the Commercial & Business Litigation Committee at the Transportation Lawyers Association Annual Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida, from April 29 to May 3, 2014. Click here for PDF.

Legal Update: Issues Our Clients Are Asking Us About
Presented by Colin McRae and Brad Harmon at the Southeastern Warehouse Association Annual Convention in Destin, Florida, on September 14, 2013.

The Trial of the Slave Ship WANDERER
Presented at the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference in Savannah, Georgia, on May 2, 2013, by Colin McRae, Brad Harmon, and Adam Kirk.

Seminar on Mental Health and Involuntary Commitment
Presented for a health care client in 2010 and 2012.

Seminar on Medical Record Documentation
Presented for a health care client in 2009.

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