Miles joined the firm in 2024 after five years in government and the judiciary. Miles has significant experience with high stakes litigation on both sides of the bench—particularly government and regulatory litigation. At the Georgia Attorney General’s Office, Miles represented government agencies and officials in election law, campaign finance law, employment law, and constitutional law issues. As an honors fellow in the Solicitor General’s office, he also represented the State in appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and Georgia’s state appellate courts. Since then, Miles has worked for three of Georgia’s preeminent judges—in both the state and federal judiciary—learning how judges process difficult cases and (thus) how lawyers can deliver top tier advice and advocacy for their clients. Prior to joining the firm, Miles last served as a law clerk for the Honorable Judge Lisa Branch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Miles, who graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law, also
- is an award winning legal writer;
- helped research Justice Nels S.D. Peterson’s groundbreaking article, Principles of Georgia Constitutional Interpretation;
- contributes to law school journals on issues of Georgia law, including a recent article on Constitutional Interpretation in the Mercer Law Review; and
- serves on the Board of the Atlanta Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society, including as Vice President of the Young Lawyers Chapter, as well as the Board of the Religious Liberty Section of the State Bar of Georgia.
Miles lives in Buckhead with his wife, Sharon, and their dog, Mae.
- Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, Inc. et al., v. Raffensperger, et al., 36 F.4th 1100 (11th Cir. 2022) (affirming the dismissal of Voting Rights Act claims against the Georgia Secretary of State related to absentee ballot applications during the COVID-19 pandemic on the merits; though the Court rejected arguments against the plaintiff organizations’ standing, those standing issues were later vindicated by the United States Supreme Court in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, 602 U.S. 367, 393-96 (2024))
- Weltner v. Raffensperger, 1:20-CV-01407 (N.D. Ga. July 15, 2020) (denying a request for a preliminary injunction and granting the state’s motion to dismiss in a lawsuit challenging the Governor’s right to appoint a justice to the Georgia Supreme Court after the resignation of Justice Keith Blackwell)
- Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission v. New Georgia Project, 359 Ga. App. 32 (2021) (reversing a trial court’s order dismissing an action to enforce campaign finance subpoenas under the Administrative Procedures Act)
- Wheale v. Georgia, et al., 3:20-cv-206, 2021 WL 5045002 (N.D. Ga. Sept. 21, 2021) (dismissing a judge’s employment discrimination lawsuit against the state because judges are not “employees” of the State despite exercising the State’s judicial power), aff’d No. 21-13676, 2022 WL 4953350 (11th Cir. 2022).
- Walker v. State, 312 Ga. 640, 402-03 (2021) (Nahmias, J., Concurring) (acknowledging, in part based on an amicus brief Miles drafted, that “the source of authority for Georgia trial courts to dismiss criminal cases without prejudice for ‘want of prosecution’ is at best murky and debatable”)