Attorney Brian Poe is Chairman of Georgia Injury Attorneys and Brian Poe & Associates, Attorneys, PC “The People’s Champs”. He is a well-known lawyer and businessperson in metro Atlanta and the state of Georgia, with over 25 years of experience practicing law, and he is also the Chairman of a national legal recruiting firm (Esquire Connect). Attorney Poe is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, has an M.B.A. from the University of Georgia and a B.S. from Florida State University. Attorney Poe is a member of the State Bar of Georgia. After many years as a Senior Attorney with a Fortune 500 corporation and major national law firms based in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. For over a decade, Attorney Poe wrote a popular column, the monthly “Attorney’s Corner” feature, for the award-winning Atlanta Tribune: The Magazine. Attorney Poe serves on the Board of Directors of the Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia, Inc., and was its first General Counse

Mr. Poe has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star in both Virginia and Washington D.C. in 2016-2019, one of the “10 Best” Attorneys for Family Law in 2016-2017 by the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys, chosen as one of the 2017 Top 10 Family Law Attorneys by the American Jurist Institute, and selected as one of the Top 10 Family Law Attorneys Under 40 in 2016 by the National Academy of Family Law Attorneys. Since joining Arquilla & Poe in early 2012, Michael Poe’s practice has focused on domestic relations and family law. Mr. Poe has extensive experience in the litigation of child custody, visitation and support issues; spousal support; equitable distribution of marital assets and debts; and the negotiation and preparation of property settlement agreements. Mr. Poe is also well versed in issues of military retirement, disability pay, the Survivor Benefit Plan, the Uniformed Services Former Spouses Protection Act and the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. Mr. Poe is a graduate of the William & Mary School of Law, where he was a member of the William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review as well as the school’s Domestic Violence Clinic.

Since 1994, Teresa Pofok’s practice has been devoted to the representation of multiemployer benefit plans jointly sponsored by unions and management. After starting her legal career with a union labor law firm, she served as an in-house compliance consultant with The Segal Company, a national multiemployer actuarial and consulting firm. This background provides her with a detailed understanding of the critical funding issues confronting most pension and health funds today. Teresa’s practice is concentrated in the area of employee benefits. She works with multiemployer benefit plans and employees on health and welfare and retirement benefit issues. She advises clients concerning legislative compliance issues, including retirement plan qualification, Affordable Care Act, continuation coverage under COBRA, and Health Insurance portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) and ERISA claims procedures. Teresa represents clients with respect to employee plan investigations and routine audits before various governmental agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Labor and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporations. These matters also include obtaining IRS determination letters, prohibited transaction exemptions, private letter rulings and opinion letters along with utilizing the IRS Employee Plan Compliance resolution System. Teresa graduated, cum laude, from Kent State University and earned her Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University College of Law at Camden. She is a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association and American Bar Association. She was recognized in the 2006 edition of Ohio Rising Stars magazine.

www.mppkj.com