Slade Mendenhall
Slade Mendenhall
Slade Mendenhall
Biography
Slade focuses his practice on commercial and appellate litigation. Drawing on experience as a former Assistant Attorney General in the Georgia Solicitor General’s office, he has briefed cases to state supreme courts and courts of appeal, U.S. courts of appeal, and the United States Supreme Court.
Slade has significant experience acting as legal issues and appellate preservation counsel in high-stakes litigation through the pretrial, trial, and post-trial phases. In that role, Slade focuses on appellate preservation while also leading complex briefing and issue development, including handling expert motions, motions for summary judgment, post-trial motions, and briefing related to significant evidentiary issues. Clients have entrusted him to brief issues with billions of dollars at stake.
An economist before turning to law, Slade continues to research and publish academic articles on diverse topics in both legal and economics journals. Prior to joining the firm in 2023, he clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Civic Involvement & Honors
Assistant Attorney General, Solicitor General’s Unit, Georgia Department of Law, 2021-2022
Clerkships
Clerkship, Honorable David J. Porter, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2022-2023
Admissions
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Georgia, 2022
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U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 2024
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U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 2023
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Supreme Court, Georgia
Education
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George Mason University, J.D., 2021
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George Mason University, Ph.D., magna cum laude, 2020
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University of Georgia, A.B., cum laude, 2012
Related Capabilities
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Business & Commercial Disputes
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Intellectual Property & Technology Disputes
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Litigation & Dispute Resolution
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Regulation, Compliance & Advisory
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Class Actions & Mass Torts
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Appellate
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Environmental and Toxic Tort
Experience
- Successfully moved to reduce as unconstitutional a $2 billion supersedeas bond for client in product liability suit.
- Secured victory for international foods company in the Supreme Court of Georgia, reinstating public service commission decision in support of $300 million manufacturing investment in the state.
- Briefed and orally argued appeal to the Supreme Court of Illinois regarding the proper interpretation of Illinois’ anti-SLAPP statute.
- Represented Haitian refugees in challenge to termination of Temporary Protected Status in the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Secured victory for LGBTQ+ non-profit in anti-SLAPP litigation from the trial court to the Georgia Court of Appeals.
- Secured victory for industrial property owner in lease/insurance dispute from the trial court to the Georgia Court of Appeals to a denial of certiorari in the Supreme Court of Georgia.
- Co-authored amicus briefs in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and in the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of national business advocacy group, challenging scope of antitrust ruling against tech giant.
- Briefed dozens of Daubert challenges to admissibility of expert witnesses’ testimony in state and federal courts as part of nationwide mass tort litigation, from highly technical general and specific causation opinions to economist experts’ calculations of damages.
- Regularly serves as on-site appellate preservation counsel in high-stakes tort trials.
Resources
Publications
- “Supermajorities: A Proposal for the Judiciary Evaluated,” Journal of Law, Economics and Policy, 2023
- “Was Washington’s First Term Legitimate?: Texas v. White and the Constitutional Convention,” Journal of Law, Economics and Policy, 2022
- Co-author, “To Sever or Not to Sever: Mixed Guidance from the Roberts Court,” Drake Law Review, 2021
- “Declared War and American Victory: A Search for Effective Commitment,” British Journal of American Legal Studies, 2020
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