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Biography
Buck is a partner at Rogers Fite LLC. He is a P.O.S.T. (Peace Officer Standards and Training) Certified Guest Lecturer, Commercial Motor Vehicle Collisions and Law, and holds a Class "A" Commercial Driver's license. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Georgia in 1990 and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1994.
He is a graduate of the National College of Advocacy, the Ultimate Trial College in Washington, D.C., and the Trial Lawyers College. He is a Master in the Lamar Inn of Court.
Buck is the 55th President of the State Bar of Georgia and was President of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association for 2013-14 and served on the Atlanta Bar Association's Continuing Education Committee.
He is primarily a civil attorney representing victims of catastrophic claims and in In 2006, Buck was selected as one of the "14 Under 40" by the Fulton County Daily Report. Since 2008 he has been named by Georgia Super Lawyers magazine as a Georgia Super Lawyer and was included in the list of Top 100 Georgia Super Lawyers since 2011. Buck was also recently named to the list of Best Lawyers in Georgia in 2015.
He has devoted himself to community service, including serving on the Board of Directors for Road Safe America (trucking safety advocacy group), Chair of the Board of Directors of the Civil Justice PAC, Inc., Regional Council of Mothers against Drunk Driving (MADD), and the Shepherd Spinal and Brain Injury Center, where he is a Trustee and serves on both the Auxiliary and Advisory Boards.
Buck served on the faculty of the Trial Skills Clinic at the University of Georgia. In addition, Buck worked on the Georgia Fire Fighter Task Force as well as the Georgia Department of Transportation's "Secondary Collision Avoidance" initiative. He trains Georgia State Patrol Trooper cadets regarding cross-examination at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth, Georgia.
Buck is a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the American Trial Lawyers Association Top 100 Trial Lawyers. He is a sustaining member of the Interstate Trucking Litigation Group, and an associate member of the National Association of Professional Accident Reconstruction Specialists, Inc.
Education
- Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, Tennessee
- J.D. - 1994
- University of Georgia
- B.A. - 1990
Professional Associations
- Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, President, 2013 to 2014
- Atlanta Bar Association’s Continuing Education Committee
- American Association of Justice
- Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys
Current Employment Position
- Partner