Attorney William K. Boddie, Jr. is a native of Atlanta, Georgia and a member of the State Bar of Georgia. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of The Boddie Law Group, LLC in Atlanta, GA. Attorney Boddie is a plaintiff’s trial attorney in personal injury, premises liability and creditor/debtor issues. Attorney Boddie also has an extensive criminal defense law practice. Moreover, he can act as either plaintiff’s or defendant’s attorney in family law matters, including those related deprivation, defense of abandonment, child support enforcement, child visitation or temporary protective orders.
In 1999, Attorney Boddie graduated from Valdosta State University with a bachelor of science in criminal justice. Pursing his dream to be an attorney, he enrolled at Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law.
While in law school, Attorney Boddie was a member of two national mock trial teams on which he represented the Mercer School of Law. He performed an internship with the National Criminal Defense College (NCDC) under the leadership of Dean Deryl Dantzler in 2002. That same year, Attorney Boddie performed another internship with the Houston County Public Defender’s Office and assisted with the defense of a rape case.
He sat second-chair at the jury trial and his client obtained a not guilty verdict. In the summer of 2003, Attorney Boddie worked with renowned criminal defense attorney and law professor, Cynthia W. Roseberry. During his internship with Professor Roseberry, he gained invaluable training and experience in the areas of federal criminal defense representation and superior court trial procedures.
In 2003, Attorney Boddie was awarded his juris doctor degree. Upon graduation, he was offered an Assistant Public Defender position with the Fulton County Public Defender’s Office in Atlanta, GA. During his tenure, Attorney Boddie represented over 450 indigent clients who had been charged with felony crimes. In 2007, he was among just 30 attorneys selected from throughout the State of Georgia by the Georgia Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (GACDL) to participate in the William Daniel Trial Advocacy Program in Athens, GA.
Now as a private practitioner, Attorney Boddie handles cases ranging from simple assault to battery upon a public official to aggravated child molestation. He has conducted numerous jury trials throughout the State of Georgia and has represented clients in high-profile cases.
In fact, Attorney Boddie was lead counsel on high-profile case where he represented an Atlanta police officer who was charged with violating his oath of office, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and terroristic threats. Attorney Boddie helped that client avoid prison time. He also helped a client charged with armed robbery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon get his case dismissed entirely.
Moreover, a strong advocate of everyone’s Constitutional right to a vigorous criminal defense, Attorney Boddie currently represents several Occupy Atlanta defendants as co-counsel.
He also represents clients in criminal actions related to family law situations. In fact, in one case, Attorney Boddie represented a wife in an Application for Temporary Protective Order that was filed by her husband’s mistress where the husband was subpoenaed as a witness by the mistress. Attorney Boddie obtained a favorable rendering for his client when the TPO application was denied by the Court.
In another case, in a child abandonment case, Attorney Boddie’s client was over $20,000 in arrears on child support. The Firm prevented that client from being incarcerated and the warrant for his arrest was dismissed.
Attorney Boddie is a frequent lecturer and panel member in seminars on criminal defense law and U.S. Constitutional law issues involving the 4th Amendment. He also has been an invited guest on the Derrick Bozeman Radio show on Atlanta’s WAOK (1380 AM) discussing important legal issues of the day and those that effect the practice of law and the general public. Attorney Boddie also has spoken to college classes at Brown Mackie College, Clark Atlanta University, Clayton State University, and Georgia Southern University.
He is admitted to practice in the Superior and State Courts of Georgia, the Georgia Court of Appeals, and the Georgia Supreme Court. He is also a bar member of the United States District Court Northern District of Georgia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Attorney Boddie is a member of various professional organizations such as the Gate City Bar Association, Clayton County Bar Association, Cobb County Bar Association, the Northwest Georgia Bar Association Young Lawyers Division (YLD) and the Criminal Section of the State Bar of Georgia. He is also Contributing Member of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (GACDL).
Additionally, Attorney Boddie is involved in several civic, business, and political organizations such as The Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and Let Us Make Man (LUMM). He serves as Chairman of The Advisory Board for The Fulton Leadership Academy.
He also is the Representative for the Blandtown Community on The City of Atlanta Neighborhood Planning Unit-D, a member of the Young Democrats of Georgia and a member of the Democratic Party of Georgia.
Attorney Kimberly D. Beard is a native of Atlanta, GA and a member of The State Bar of Georgia. She is an Associate at The Boddie Law Group in Atlanta, GA. Attorney Beard is a trial attorney who practices criminal defense law, family law, and personal injury. Attorney Beard, graduated from the University of West Georgia with a bachelor of science in criminal justice. As an undergraduate, she excelled in academics and graduated top ten percent of her class.
After earning her undergraduate degree, Attorney Beard worked for two years for Williams and Associates, PC, a personal injury and criminal defense firm in Decatur, GA. After that, Attorney Beard enrolled at the University of South Carolina School Of Law, where she received her juris doctor degree in 2010. While attending law school, she served as a member of the Pro Bono Board, a school ambassador, a Certified Juvenile Arbitrator, and as a child advocate for abused and neglected children.
In addition, Attorney Beard competed on South Carolina’s mock trial team and was admitted to the Criminal Defense Clinic at her law school. This clinic allowed Attorney Beard to be temporarily admitted to the South Carolina Bar of Attorneys through which she represented indigent clients for criminal cases.
Before joining The Boddie Law Group in 2010, Attorney Beard had the honor of interning for the Honorable Judge Tom N. Davis of Gwinnett County Superior Court and the Fulton County Public Defender’s Office. During her internship with Judge Davis, Attorney Beard drafted legal memoranda for civil cases for the Judge’s review, observed murder trials and reviewed divorce decrees for final judicial order.
While interning for the Fulton County Public Defender’s Office, Attorney Beard was able to assist over 100 indigent clients with their cases and represent many other indigent clients who had been charged with both felony and misdemeanor crimes.
In addition to handling cases in both state and superior courts in counties across Georgia, Attorney Beard represents clients in high-profile cases. Recently, Attorney Beard served as lead counsel on a case in Clayton County where a client was indicted for trafficking 316 grams of methamphetamine that was discovered after a home invasion. She got that charge dismissed.
Attorney Beard also successfully represents clients in divorce, child support and child support modification, child visitation and child custody (including modification orders), deprivations, parental move-away and abandonment cases, father’s rights and legitimation matters and on grandparent’s rights issues.
A strong advocate of co-parenting, in one case, she got a father joint legal and physical custody when the mother wanted sole legal and physical custody. In another case, where a father was hiding assets to avoid paying child support, Attorney Beard obtained a child support award that was favorable to the mother and did so in mediation rather than court.
Always working to protect the best interests of children, she handles juvenile cases in Fulton and DeKalb Counties, including petty theft, burglary, auto theft and theft by receiving stolen property. She was involved in the high-profile case concerning a spate of thefts of merchandise from area beauty supply stores. She also helps protect children’s legal rights in her work for the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program in Richland and Fulton Counties where she acts as guardian ad litem to juveniles.
Attorney Beard remains active in her community by serving on the Board of Directors of I Manage My Life Women’s Empowerment Network, a nonprofit that helps teen domestic violence victims regain control of their lives. Additionally, she mentors young women across the State of Georgia and speaks to college and high school classes about the legal issues that affect law practice and the general public.
Moreover, Attorney Beard is an adjunct professor at Herzing University where she teaches paralegal courses. She also is an active member of the Georgia Bar Association, Gate City Bar Association, the Northwest Georgia Bar Association and Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys (GABWA).
Attorney Monique L. Jones was born in New York but, by virtue of having been moved to East Point, GA in infancy, she is a native Atlantan. Of counsel to The Boddie Law Group. Attorney Jones has extensive experience in criminal defense and juvenile court law. She also represents clients in deprivation, family reunification and uncontested divorce cases as well as provides counsel, though not formal representation, to litigants in pro se divorce cases.
Attorney Jones earned her bachelor of arts from Yale University in 2001, where she double-majored in economics and English. A fluent French speaker, she received her juris doctor in 2004 from the University of Georgia Law School. While a student at UGA, Attorney Jones participated in the Vis Moot Court International Commercial Arbitration Team in Vienna, Austria. During law school, Attorney Jones also worked at two law firms, including Scott & Wells in Athens where she worked on worker’s compensation cases.
Upon graduation from UGA, Attorney Jones, who passed the New York Bar exam, started her own law practice, the Law Offices of Monique Jones. Through her firm, she began bringing her expertise to The Boddie Law Group in 2011. Her law firm’s work complements that of The Boddie Law Group because of its strong focus on family law and criminal defense.
In her family law practice, in addition to defending parents and/or custodians in deprivation cases of various types, Attorney Jones defends parents at probable cause hearings, adjudications, in protective order cases, at review hearings, and termination of parental rights hearings. Attorney Jones also has extensive experience in child support, child custody, child visitation and legitimation cases.
Accordingly, her firm works closely with the Department of Family and Children’s Services (DFACS) conducting follow-up with case plan goals and reunification efforts of DFACS tailored to individualized case plans. She does work in numerous cases with parents having low cognitive functioning, borderline mental handicap, and depression and anxiety diagnoses to reunify them with their children. Attorney Jones also represents parents experiencing domestic violence.
In fact, in one deprivation case, she got a mother of four reunited with all of children after the mother went through the Fulton County Court’s drug rehabilitation program and complied successfully with her case plan. Prior to Attorney Jones’ involvement, the mother faced several denials of her requests for reunification and struggled to navigate the DFACS system. Today, that mother is successfully raising her children at home.
Attorney Jones also engages in exceptional criminal defense of clients with a strong focus on juvenile court law. In her work in the juvenile courts, she defends children in felony and misdemeanor cases. Her representation includes trial preparation work, witness interviews, preparing discovery demands, subpoenaing parties, and pre-trial motions. Upon disposition, Attorney Jones’ representation consists of reviewing alternatives with parents as well as reviewing reports from probation and state detention center workers.
Additionally, Attorney Jones successfully defends adult criminal defendants. She provides such defense in bond hearings, probable cause hearing and probation revocation hearings. She has successfully presented a variety of motions including those to suppress evidence, for competency evaluations to exclude testimony, similar transaction evidence, identity issues and suggestive lineups. She has defended clients through jury trial verdict.
Attorney Jones showed how strong she is at criminal defense when she mounted an effective defense of a 19-year-old convicted felon who was charged with weapons and drug possession and fleeing police. Because of his criminal past, the client was facing a potential 10 to 30 year sentence. Attorney Jones got the case dismissed on all charges.
Attorney Jones keeps her legal skills sharp with frequent training. She has attended the DeKalb County Parent Attorney Seminar, the National Association for Counsel for Children, Parent Attorney Training and Child and Parent Attorney Training. She is a current member of the Georgia State Bar Association’s Criminal Defense Section and a past member of the Clayton and Gwinnett County Bar Associations.
When she is not practicing law, she is a mentor and a running program coach for elementary and high school students through Create Your Dreams in Northwest Atlanta.
