Danielle Hildebrand joins Tisinger Vance, P.C. Law Firm

M. Hildebrand. Ms. Hildebrand joined the firm in December of this year. Ms. Hildebrand’s principal areas of practice include Healthcare Law, Business and Commercial Law, and Electric Membership Corporation Law.

Ms. Hildebrand was the salutatorian for the inaugural class at Blessed Trinity Catholic High School in Roswell, Georgia. In 2007, she graduated from the University of Notre Dame, College of Arts and Letters with a Bachelor of Arts in Pre-Professional Studies (pre-med) and Psychology. While at the University of Notre Dame, she was a member of the Women’s Liturgical Choir, was a Student Football Manager, and played dorm volleyball. She also volunteered at the local hospital and homeless center.

She graduated from Georgia State University College of Law Magna Cum Laude in 2011. Ms. Hildebrand graduated in the top 10% of her law class and serve as an Executive Board member on the Georgia State Law Review. She was the recipient of CALI Awards for Excellence for achieving the highest grade in Biotechnology Law & Ethics, Health Legislation & Advocacy, and Public Health Law. She was also awarded the Best Brief Award for Litigation. While in law school, Ms. Hildebrand served as a Graduate Research Assistant for Professor Nancy Mansfield and Law Librarian Pamela Brennan. She also clerked for Administrative Law Judge Timothy Hagan at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, interned at the Department of Health and Human Services Office of General Counsel and served as a Student Legal Intern in the HeLP Legal Services Clinic. She is a member of the State Bar of Georgia.

Ms. Hildebrand is the daughter of Peter and Joyce Hildebrand of Marietta, Georgia. She is a member of St. Peter Chanel Catholic Church. Her hobbies include hiking, kayaking, playing volleyball and watching Notre Dame Football.

Tisinger Vance, P.C. is a full service law firm that has been serving the legal needs of the West Georgia community since 1922. With the addition of Ms. Hildebrand, the law firm now has fourteen attorneys.

Georgia Super Lawyer

Tisinger Vance is pleased to announce that Richard G. Tisinger, Jr., for 2011 has again been named by Georgia Super Lawyers magazine as a top attorney in Georgia. Only five percent of the lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers. Each year, the research team at Super Lawyers undertakes a rigorous multi-phase selection process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, independent evaluation of candidates by the attorney-led research staff, a peer review of candidates by practice area, and a good-standing and disciplinary check.

Tommy Vance is back competing in triathlons, a year after surviving a plane crash

Local attorney Tommy Vance nearly lost his life last September when the Cessna 182 small-engine airplane that was carrying him to a deposition crashed in the pine trees short of a runway in Wheeler County. The plane’s pilot, Dan Marnell, was killed on impact in the Sept. 8 crash, but Vance’s shattered body was pulled from the wreckage with two broken ankles, five broken ribs, a punctured and collapsed lung, an exposed, fractured left elbow, torn left rotator cuff, three fractures of vertebrae in the back and severe lacerations to the head. In the last year, he has undergone four surgeries, including fusion of his back, two surgeries on his elbow and rotator cuff surgery. “I still feel these places, but it’s not like a nagging pain,” he said. “You definitely know where the breaks are.” Read more: Times-Georgian - Tommy Vance is back competing in triathlons a year after surviving a plane crash

Partners Named Super Lawyers

Tisinger Vance is pleased to announce that two of its partners, David H. Tisinger and Richard G. Tisinger, Jr., for 2010 have again been named by Georgia Super Lawyers magazine as top attorneys in Georgia. Only five percent of the lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers. Each year, the research team at Super Lawyers undertakes a rigorous multi-phase selection process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, independent evaluation of candidates by the attorney-led research staff, a peer review of candidates by practice area, and a good-standing and disciplinary check.

Partner Presented with Lifetime ECBA Award

Tisinger Vance is pleased to announce that one of its partners, Richard G. (Dick) Tisinger, Sr., was recently honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Electric Cooperative Bar Association (“ECBA”) for his dedication to electric cooperatives throughout the state of Georgia and nationwide.  The award--the highest of the ECBA awards-- recognizes those who have gone above and beyond expectations in advancing the electric cooperative program among attorneys, cooperatives, and their boards of directors.

Throughout his 40-year career representing electric membership corporations (“EMCs”), Mr. Tisinger has applied his vast knowledge of cooperative law and utility regulation to his efforts in developing and building partnerships between NRECA member cooperatives and its attorneys.  Mr. Tisinger, along with partner Steve Minor and associates Kristin Dial and Rob Walker, provide legal services to Georgia EMC and a number of EMC’s throughout Georgia, as well as GRESCO Utility Supply and Southeastern Data Cooperative.

ECBA is a network of nearly 700 attorneys nationwide representing the interests of NRECA member cooperatives.  Mr. Tisinger is a charter member of ECBA and served numerous years as a member of its Board of Directors.