Miles Skedsvold

BACK

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 and counseled government agencies and officials on election law, campaign finance law, employment disputes, and constitutional 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 forthcoming article on Constitutional Interpretation in the Mercer Law Review; and
  • serves on the Board of the Atlanta Young Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society and the Religious Liberty Section of the Georgia State Bar.

Miles lives in Buckhead with his wife, Sharon, and their dog, Mae.

Education

  • J.D., cum laude, University of Georgia School of Law
  • Editor in Chief, Journal of Intellectual Property Law
  • B.A., English Literature, magna cum laude, Georgia College and State University

Government Service

  • Honors Fellow, Georgia Attorney General’s Office
    • Elections, Employment, Health and Human Services Division
    • Solicitor General Division

Clerkships

  • The Honorable Lisa Godbey Wood, United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia;
  • The Honorable Presiding Justice Nels S.D. Peterson, Supreme Court of Georgia;
  • The Honorable Lisa Branch, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • 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”)

Miles Skedsvold

Attorney Bio
BACK

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 and counseled government agencies and officials on election law, campaign finance law, employment disputes, and constitutional 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 forthcoming article on Constitutional Interpretation in the Mercer Law Review; and
  • serves on the Board of the Atlanta Young Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society and the Religious Liberty Section of the Georgia State Bar.

Miles lives in Buckhead with his wife, Sharon, and their dog, Mae.

Education & Memberships

Education

  • J.D., cum laude, University of Georgia School of Law
  • Editor in Chief, Journal of Intellectual Property Law
  • B.A., English Literature, magna cum laude, Georgia College and State University

Government Service

  • Honors Fellow, Georgia Attorney General’s Office
    • Elections, Employment, Health and Human Services Division
    • Solicitor General Division

Clerkships

  • The Honorable Lisa Godbey Wood, United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia;
  • The Honorable Presiding Justice Nels S.D. Peterson, Supreme Court of Georgia;
  • The Honorable Lisa Branch, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Selected cases & representations
  • 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”)