HAYNES M. STUDSTILL

MANAGING PARTNER

Haynes (Maier) Studstill was born and raised in Rome, Georgia. She attended Darlington School and graduated high school from the Culver Academies located in Culver, Indiana in 1994. She graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. in 1998.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

• Car Accidents
• Wrongful Death
• Workers’ Compensation
• Premises Liability
• Products Liability

Haynes spent several years as a journalist following college. She worked at WRC-TV (the NBC affiliate station) in Washington, D.C., and WSMV Channel 4 in Nashville, Tennessee, and then went on to become the Life Editor of The Brunswick News in Brunswick, Georgia. Her experience in the television and newspaper industries, combined with her love for riding horses, led her to Fort Worth, Texas where she worked for the Cowboy Publishing Group’s online presence, Horsecity.com, as well as its print publications Quarter Horse News and Barrel Horse News. After several years in the journalism industry, she decided to pursue a legal career.

AWARDED FOR EXCELLENCE AND INTEGRITY

Haynes graduated magna cum laude from Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law in Macon, Georgia, where she finished in the top 7% of her graduating class. She was nominated to lead the Mercer Law Review in the role of Editor-in-Chief in her final year of law school. During law school, she clerked for the Honorable C. Ashley Royal in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia in Macon, and for King & Spalding, LLP in Atlanta. She was also awarded a Faculty Award for Outstanding Legal Writing and inducted into the Brainerd Currie Honor Society.

Attorney Haynes Studstill has been recognized for her outstanding legal work, earning prestigious accolades such as:

• Rated 10.0/10.0 Superb, AVVO
• Legal Elite, Georgia Trend Magazine
• Rising Star, Georgia Super Lawyers
• Super Lawyers, Georgia Super Lawyers

After graduation from law school, Haynes and her husband, Justin Studstill, moved to Atlanta where Haynes continued working at King & Spalding, LLP. In 2009, Haynes and Danny Studstill partnered to form the Studstill Firm, LLP with offices in Macon, where Haynes was headquartered for 3 years, Nashville, and Valdosta, her current home. Haynes and her family have lived in the Valdosta area since 2012.

Haynes devotes her entire practice to helping injury victims in the wake of accidents or tragedies and is confident that this dedicated focus and specialization in this area of the law is extremely beneficial to her clients.

JURISDICTIONS ADMITTED TO PRACTICE

• Georgia, 2007
• Georgia Court of Appeals, 2008
• Supreme Court of Georgia, 2008
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Georgia, 2008
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, 2008
• United States Supreme Court, 2015

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

• President, Valdosta Bar Association 2023-24
• Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Valdosta Bar Association 2020-23
• Board Member, State Botanical Garden of Georgia 2024
• Board Member, The Verdict Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
• Board Member, Safe Kids Worldwide, Lowndes County Chapter
• Barrister, William Augustus Bootle Inn of Court
• PUBLISHING WORK
• Holy Moses: What Do We Do With the Ten Commandments?, 57 Mercer L. Rev. 645 (2006)
  The Verdict Georgia Trial Lawyers Association

AWARDS

• Rated 10.0/10.0 Superb, AVVO
• Legal Elite, Georgia Trend Magazine
• Rising Star, Georgia Super Lawyers
• Georgia Super Lawyers 2014-2024
• America’s Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys 2019-2024
• Best of Georgia Personal Injury Law Firm, 2023-24