William P. Horkan

Partner

Direct

478.749.9960

Office

478.742.4280

Fax

478.742.8720

Location

Macon

Email / vCard

Biography

Will Horkan maintains a statewide general litigation and trial practice. Will focuses his efforts on representing individuals, businesses, and local governments in a variety of civil matters including agricultural, business, employment, insurance claims and coverage disputes, and contractual disputes. Will also has experience representing crop insurers in crop insurance claims. 

Practice Areas

  • Agriculture Law
  • Business and Commercial Litigation
  • Construction
  • Corporate
  • Employment
  • Insurance Litigation and Coverage
  • Litigation
  • Local Government Law
  • Probate & Estate Administration

Professional Organizations/Activities

  • American Bar Association
  • State Bar of Georgia
  • Macon Bar Association
  • Past-President of the Macon YLD
  • American Agricultural Law Association
  • The Georgia Defense Lawyers Association
  • DRI
  • Leadership Macon - Class of 2015
  • Past Chairman, Gray-Jones County Chamber of Commerce 

Presentations + Publications

  • Will Horkan Presented at Oconee Fall Line Technical College on Current Trends in Employment Law
  • Legacy Panel Moderator – Georgia Farm Bureau Young Farmers Convention 2013
  • Landowner Liability For Dead or Decaying Trees, Georgia Forestry Today, May/June 2014
  • Employer Mandate – Strategic Planning Can Change the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act from a Roadblock to a Stepping Stone, Georgia Forestry Today, November/December 2013
  • The Thief in the Night, Georgia Forestry Today, September/October 2012
  • 2017 American Farm Bureau Federation Presentation – Reverse National Origin Discrimination, January 2017 
  • 2018 Agriculture Law CLE – Crop Insurance Litigation, March 2018

Education

University of Georgia (B.S.A. Agribusiness, cum laude 2006)

  • Member, Kappa Sigma
  • Member, AGHON
  • Congressional Agricultural Fellowship, U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry (Summer 2005)

Mercer University (J.D., 2009)

Admitted

  • Georgia, 2009
  • Supreme Court of Georgia, 2010
  • Court of Appeals of Georgia, 2010
  • Middle District of Georgia, 2011
  • Southern District of Georgia, 2015 

Administrative/Legal Assistant Contact

Name: Pansy Mullis
Title: Legal Assistant
Phone: 478.749.9986

< Back to Attorneys

Macon

231 Riverside Drive
Macon, Georgia 31201
View Map

Tel 478.742.4280

Fax 478.742.8720

Atlanta

Buckhead Tower at Lenox Square
3399 Peachtree Road NE
Suite 1700
Atlanta, Georgia 30326
View Map

Tel 404.997.6020

Fax 404.997.6021

LinkedIn POSTS

We are thrilled to announce the addition of attorney Kathryn Willis to the Firm’s Commercial Litigation practice group. Kathryn Willis maintains a statewide general litigation and trial practice, representing individuals, businesses, and local governments in a variety of civil matters including business disputes, employment disputes, contractual disputes, and probate matters, including guardianship/conservatorship matters and will/trust disputes. Kathryn also has experience in both transactional and litigation real estate matters, including stormwater runoff litigation, boundary line disputes, eminent domain, billboard sale/acquisition transactions, and other commercial real estate development matters such as zoning, permitting and construction financing. James-Bates-Brannan-Groover-LLP is excited to have the experience, knowledge, values, and commitment that Kathryn brings to the team.

06 Mar 2020

Please help us welcome Jamie Shaw as the newest legal assistant in our Commercial Litigation practice group. Jamie was born and raised in Alabama. She enjoys reading, bowling, traveling, college football, the Auburn Tigers and spending time with family, especially her husband and three daughters. Welcome Jamie, we are thrilled you have chosen to be a part of the JBBG family.

29 Jan 2020

© 2020 James-Bates-Brannan-Groover-LLP