Gracie Saas is an associate in HunterMaclean’s litigation practice group. She works with businesses and individuals on a wide variety of general and commercial litigation matters, including product liability, real estate litigation, trust and estate litigation, fiduciary liability, professional liability, contract disputes, maritime and logistics matters, and trade secrets litigation, at both the trial and appellate levels. Gracie also has experience assisting clients in complex transactional matters, such as sales of closely held corporations, estate and gift planning, and securities regulation.
Gracie is admitted to practice before all state trial and appellate courts in Georgia and all U.S. District Courts of Georgia. She is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and the Savannah Bar Association, and she currently serves on the executive boards of the Savannah Bar Association Young Lawyers Division and the Savannah Chapter of the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers. In addition to being a guardian ad litem with the Superior Court of Chatham County, she works with the Georgia Legal Services Program to provide pro bono legal services to persons with low incomes.
Gracie attended Thomas Edison State College, where she completed a B.A. in Liberal Studies and Humanities in less than two years. Before law school, she worked as a business reporter covering the 2008 financial crisis. She also worked in her family’s cotton brokerage firm in Waynesboro, Georgia, assisting cotton producers and merchants with spot pricing, forward contracting, commodity futures transactions, and hedging strategies. Gracie earned her J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law. During her time at UGA, she was a member of the managing board for the Journal of Intellectual Property Law, a finalist in the J. Melvin England Mock Trial Competition, president of the Dean’s Ambassadors, and vice president of the Women Law Students Association. She was also a part of the Family Justice Clinic, which provides pro bono legal services to individuals experiencing domestic violence.
Outside of her legal practice, Gracie is an active member of the community. She currently serves as the president of the board of directors for the Live Oak Public Libraries Foundation, the organization that raises funds to supplement programs envisioned and provided by Live Oak Public Libraries, and is a member of the United Way Young Leaders of the Coastal Empire.
Live Oak Public Libraries Foundation: Board of Directors, President
United Way Young Leaders of the Coastal Empire
Credentials
Education
Education
University of Georgia School of Law: J.D., 2018 Thomas Edison State College: B.A., Liberal Studies and Humanities, 2010
Affiliations
Affiliations
State Bar of Georgia
Georgia Association for Women Lawyers: Savannah Chapter, President
Savannah Bar Association Young Lawyers Division: Executive Board
Georgia Legal Services Program
Superior Court of Chatham County: Guardian Ad Litem
Recognition
Recognition
Ones to Watch: Commercial Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law; 2022-2024 “Ones to Watch” is a new category in Best Lawyers, 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.
HunterMaclean, a leading law firm with offices in Savannah and St. Simons Island, is pleased to announce that 27 attorneys from the firm were recently selected for inclusion in The…
HunterMaclean, a leading law firm with offices in Savannah and St. Simons Island, is pleased to announce that 28 attorneys from the firm were recently selected for inclusion in The Best…
HunterMaclean, a leading business law firm with offices in Savannah and St. Simons Island, recently welcomed Gracie G. Shepherd as an associate in the Firm’s litigation practice group. Gracie works…
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