Practices:

• State and Local Government Affairs
• Litigation
  • Class Action Defense
  • Business Disputes / Commercial

Experience

Petrina Hall concentrates her practice on commercial disputes and public policy litigation. Ms. Hall handles cases involving contracts and business torts, telecommunications litigation, consumer fraud class actions, and governmental disputes.  Ms. Hall also focuses her practice on governmental issues at the state and local level.

During law school, she was inducted into the Moot Court Honor Society and was recognized with numerous awards and scholarships including the Earl Warren Legal Education Scholarship; Finalist in First Year Oral Argument Competition; Honors in the Litigation Practicum; and the “Best Oral Advocate” award given by the William McGee National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition.  Ms. Hall was also chosen as one of four students from the GSU College of Law to participate in the Georgia Law School Consortium Fellowship Program. In addition, Ms. Hall is the founder and president of the Board of Directors of the Legacy Scholarship Foundation, Inc., which she created for the benefit of high school students graduating from her alma mater.  Ms. Hall is also a founding board member of Young Leaders Collegiate Academy, a proposed charter middle school for South Fulton County, Georgia.  She has participated in United Way's Volunteer Improvement Program, which focuses on training community leaders to serve on non-profits boards, and served in the Big Sister mentoring program.

Ms. Hall received the 2007 Pro Bono and Community Service Award from McKenna Long & Aldridge, and currently serves on the firm's Diversity and Associate Committees.

Education

• J.D., Georgia State University College of Law, 2004
• B.A., Georgia State University, summa cum laude, 2001

Admitted

• Georgia
• Georgia Court of Appeals
• U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia
• U.S. District Court for Colorado