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Managing Partner of Howick, Westfall, McBryan & Kaplan, LLP, M. Todd Westfall has been awarded an AV Rating by Martindale-Hubbell, Inc. for his outstanding professional integrity and exceptional legal service. Todd began practicing law in Georgia in 1979. He is a former Staff Attorney of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Areas of Practice:

• Commercial Real Estate
• Secured Lending
• Business Law
• Consumer Credit Compliance
• Corporate
• Foreclosure
• Liquidation
• Aviation Transactions
• Banks and Banking

Bar Admissions:

• State Bar of Georgia 1979
• Georgia Superior Court
• Georgia Court of Appeals
• Georgia Supreme Court
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
• 5^th Circuit Court of Appeals
• 11^th Circuit Court of Appeals
• U.S. Supreme Court

Education:

• Berry College (B.S. 1977)
• Woodrow Wilson College of Law (J.D. 1979)
• Georgia State University (J.D. 1985)

Work Experience, Honors, and Awards:

• Omicron Delta Kappa
• Pi Alpha Delta
• Notes and Comments Editor, Georgia State University Law Review, 1985
• Staff Attorney, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1980-1981
• Chair, Real Property Foreclosure Seminar, Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 2000-present
• AV Rating by Martindale-Hubbell, Inc.
• Cited in The Atlanta Lawyer, a publication of the Atlanta Bar Association, in their “24K Bar Leaders” issue
• Lead counsel for one of the largest multiple parcel (2075 individual parcels) assemblages in Georgia

Selected Professional Associations and Memberships:

• Atlanta Bar Association (Member, Board of Directors, 1990-1991, Secretary/Treasurer, 1991-1992; Chair Elect, 1992-1993; Chair, 1993-1994, Real Estate Section)
• State Bar of Georgia (Member, Sections on: Real Property Executive Committee, 1994-2000; Chair, Professionalism and Public Relations Subcommittee, 1998-2000; Title Standards Committee, 1994-1995; Co-Chair 1999-2000; Aviation Law)
• Atlanta Home Builders Association (Chair, Legal Affairs Committee, 1987-1988; Co-Counsel, New Home Sales Contract Task Force, 1994-1995)
• Mortgage Bankers Association of Georgia (Commercial Property Group Chair, 2007 to present)
• Lawyer Pilot Bar Association

Selected Publications and Presentations:

• “Builders: Beware Mortgage Fraud” Article for Atlanta Building News, 1991
• Presenter: “Bankruptcy – Relief from the Automatic Stay in Residential Transactions: Avoidance of Title Problems (Post-Petition Sales and Creditor Resales)” for Real Property Law ICLE Seminar, 1992
• Presenter:  “The Battle of the Contracts – Forms and Provisions for Brokers, Builders, Buyers and Sellers” for Real Property Law ICLE Seminar, 1995
• Presenter:  “A Sales Contract for all Reasons – Developing a Generic Form When No Broker is Involved” for Real Property Law ICLE Seminar, 1999