Victor Y. Johnson

13th Annual Justice Robert Benham Award for Community Service, The State Bar of Georgia and the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism, February 28, 2012.

United States Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit, Orangeburg, S.C.: Judicial Law Clerk, 1994-1995.

Supreme Court of Alabama: Judicial Law Clerk, 1992-1994.

Madison County Industrial Authority Attorney: 2000-2019 • City Attorney, Comer: 1998-2008

City Attorney, Danielsville: 1995-2010 • City Attorney, Ila: 2020- present

Admitted to practice law in Georgia and in Federal Courts: Georgia Supreme Court and Court of Appeals; U.S. District Court, Northern and Middle Districts, Georgia; U.S. District Court, Northern District, Alabama; U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals (4th & 11th Circuits)

Professional Memberships: State Bar of Georgia. American Bar Association. Northern Circuit Bar Association. Martindale-Hubbell rating: BV® Distinguished™ 4.4 out of 5

1992 J.D. cum laude University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia.

Top grade in Ethics (1992)

Ossabaw Award for outstanding achievement in legal activities reflecting the relationship between arts and the environment

1989 M.S. Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

1985 B.A. Economics, University of the South, Sewanee, TN

1984 B.S. cum digitate, Natural Resources, University of the South, Sewanee, TN

Real Estate Closings: • Residential, Commercial, Farm, Owner-Financed

• Title Exams and Title Insurance

• Leases and Lease/ Purchase Transactions

Business Law: • Acquisition and Sale Transactions

• Commercial Real Estate

• Contracts

• Corporations, Limited Liability Companies & Partnerships

Probate and Estates: • Administration and Probate of Estates

• Guardianship and Conservatorship

• Probate of Wills and Estates

Wills and Estate Planning • General Power of Attorney (Financial)

• Healthcare Power of Attorney (Advance Directives)

• Lifetime Planning and Medicaid Planning

• Wills, Living Wills, and Trusts

• Estate Planning and Elder Law

Land Use and Zoning: • Access and Easements

• Boundary disputes and Encroachments

• Land Trusts and Conservation Easements

• Property division • Property tax issues

• Purchase/Sale and Refinance Transactions

• Restrictive Covenants

• Zoning

• A guardian is a court-appointed agent who has the responsibility to manage an incapacitated person’s or child’s financial affairs

•A conservator is a court-appointed agent who has the power and the duty to act on behalf of the ward (child or incapacitated adult) to protect the ward’s property and manage healthcare and medical issues

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