George Green, Jr. is a Partner in Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP's Atlanta, Nashville and Dallas offices. He is a member of the Tort & Catastrophic Loss, Professional Liability/Errors & Omissions, Trial Advocacy/Trial On-Call and Commercial Litigation/Directors & Officers Practice Sections. His practice focuses on high stakes civil litigation in both state and federal courts with an emphasis on construction, commercial and tort litigation.

As part of his construction litigation practice, Mr. Green represents architects, engineers, owners, general contractors, and subcontractors on both small- and large-scale construction projects that involve claims of professional negligence, construction defect, negligence and breach of contract.

Mr. Green’s commercial litigation practice focuses on commercial contracts, business disputes, unfair business practices, breach of non-compete agreements, real estate transactions and claims brought against individual owners, directors and officers for alleged breach of fiduciary duty. He also has represented homeowner’s associations, community property companies, developers and property management companies in claims involving contract, torts, governance and construction. As part of his commercial litigation practice, he has handled class actions, including tech class actions involving errors and omissions and data breaches.

Mr. Green’s tort practice typically involves high exposure litigation involving catastrophic injuries. He is often retained by excess carriers as trial approaches to monitor trial strategy, and, in many cases, to step in as the first chair for trial.

Georgia

Tennessee 

Texas

‘Carrot and Stick’ Provisions Help Architects and GC’s Get Along, Construction Dive, 7/29/2022

Avoiding Shocks When Hiring a Low-Voltage Electrician, Construction Executive, 2/18/2022

Not Pandemic-Proof: The Ongoing Impact of COVID-19 on the Commercial Construction Industry, Construction Executive, 11/2/2021

• Represented one of the country’s premier design firms in a case arising out of the design and construction of an underground stormwater detention vault.  The plaintiff alleged that the excavation and bracing and dewatering activities necessary to construct the vault caused the ground underneath an adjacent apartment building to settle and resulted in structural damage to the building.  Prevailed on summary judgment on the grounds that its client owed no duty to the plaintiff and that its design was not defective.
• Successfully represented pipeline contractors in litigation across the country.
• Obtained favorable settlement for general contractor against homeowner’s association in contract dispute.
• Summary judgment for convenience store on dram shop case involving multiple fatalities.
• Obtained favorable settlement for boiler supplier and technicians in boiler explosion case involving significant property damage.
• Successfully resolved multiple premises liability cases involving personal injury and wrongful death.

• American Bar Association
• Atlanta Bar Association
• Nashville Bar Association
• Tennessee Bar Association
• Tennessee Law Review – Executive Editor
• Transactions: Tennessee Journal of Business Law – Assistant Acquisitions Editor

• The Best Lawyers in America, Best Lawyers, 2025–2026
• Future Star, Benchmark Litigation, 2026
• 40 Under 40 Hot List – South: Commercial and Insurance, Benchmark Litigation, 2021
• Georgia Rising Star: Defense, Super Lawyers, 2022–2023

• “To Design-Build or Not: That is the Question and Other Implications of Professional Liability Claims in Construction,” North American Construction Summit, 2025
• “To Design-Build or Not: That is the Question and Other Implications of Professional Liability Claims in Construction,” ExecuSummit Construction Conference, 2025
• “Using AI for Discovery in Construction Cases,” ExecuSummit Construction Conference, 2024