John Gross has over twenty years of experience in the practice of law, having begun his career with the New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, and having spent seventeen years at Powell Goldstein LLP, one of Atlanta’s oldest and most respected firms, where John was a partner for eleven years.

John has acted as lead counsel before federal and state trial and appellate courts, in administrative proceedings, and before ADR panels. His clients have included Fortune 100 companies, financial institutions, national and small-town community banks, corporate directors and officers, wealthy individuals and small business owners. John has also provided compliance advice and counseling in securities, antitrust and fiduciary duty matters, including to persons and entities pursuing high-risk or litigation-sensitive transactions.

John has represented defendants and plaintiffs in shareholders' class action litigation, corporate governance disputes, CMBS matters, antitrust class action and other antitrust litigation, as well as in fraud-on-the-market claims, dissenting shareholder valuation proceedings and internal corporate investigations. John also has experience in structuring and negotiating complex corporate and financial transactions.

John often speaks at continuing legal education programs. For the last ten years he has been the co-chair of an annual seminar on Corporate Litigation hosted by the Georgia Institute on Continuing Legal Education. John is also a member of the Board of Editors of the Georgia Bar Journal, the official publication of the State Bar of Georgia.