Karlise Yvette Grier

Current

Managing Attorney at Grier Law Office, P.C.

Past

Judicial Officer at Fulton County Superior Court Family Division
Special Assistant Attorney General at Georgia State Law Department
Judge Pro Hac Vice at former City Court of Atlanta

Associate Attorney at Kilpatrick Stockton

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Education

Emory University School of Law
Dartmouth College
Frederick Douglass High School

Phillips Academy (Andover) Summer Session

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Karlise Yvette Grier’s Summary

Karlise Yvette Grier is the managing attorney of Grier Law Office, P.C., an Atlanta law firm that concentrates in the areas of adoption law, divorce law, and family law. Ms. Grier is an experienced trial attorney and child-welfare lawyer. During her legal career, Ms. Grier has litigated hundreds of cases and participated in several reported cases, including her most recent appellate victory of Frazier v. Frazier, 280 Ga. 687, 631 S.E.2d 666 (2006), a divorce case in which the Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed the judgment Ms. Grier obtained for her client after a trial of the case.

Ms. Grier has several years of complex litigation experience. She has tried contested matters - involving issues such as child custody, child support, alimony, division of marital property, and termination of parental rights - before both judges and juries in Georgia's superior, state, and juvenile courts. She has extensive experience in resolving contested divorce matters. Ms. Grier is also an experienced domestic adoption attorney and has successfully represented clients in interstate adoptions, private/independent adoptions, step-parent adoptions, relative adoptions, and agency adoptions.

Ms. Grier was appointed to serve as a part-time Magistrate Court judge in Fulton County in May 2006, and she has served as a Judicial Officer in the Fulton County Superior Court Family Division. From March 2000 until June 2005, Ms. Grier served as a Judge Pro Hac Vice in the former City Court of Atlanta (“Traffic Court”).

Karlise Yvette Grier’s Specialties:

I am an experienced trial attorney and have general civil and criminal trial experience. Currently, I concentrate my practice in the areas of family law (adoption and divorce in particular).

Karlise Yvette Grier’s Experience

Managing Attorney

Grier Law Office, P.C.

(Legal Services industry)

2000 — Present (9 years )

Grier Law Office, PC is a civil litigation firm, concentrating in the areas of adoption law, divorce and other family-law matters. The founding attorney for the Grier Law Office, Karlise Yvette Grier, is experienced in litigating contested divorce, custody, visitation, deprivation, and termination of parental rights matters in Georgia's superior and juvenile courts.

The Grier Law Office is a small law firm that offers its clients high-quality, personalized legal services in a cost-effective and efficient manner. While the Grier Law Office makes every effort to settle contested matters, consistent with the best interests of the client, the Grier Law Office also assists clients in the trial of contested matters before judges or juries, when necessary to protect the interests of the firm's clients.

The Grier Law Office handles cases throughout metropolitan Atlanta including, but not limited to: Dekalb, Clayton, Gwinnett, Cobb, Henry, Douglas and more.
Judicial Officer

Fulton County Superior Court Family Division

(Legal Services industry)

2006 — December 2008 (2 years )

Karlise Yvette Grier was honored to serve the citizens of Fulton County as a Judicial Officer in the Fulton County Superior Court Family Division. The Fulton County Superior Court Family Division was instituted in 1998 as a pilot project. The emphasis of the Family Division is on the best interests of children affected by legal proceedings and the family unit affected by the process. The Family Division's role is to provide a comprehensive approach to solving domestic disputes while simultaneously reducing the use of forced problem-solving via the litigation process.

Judicial Officers are part-time magistrate judges who are designated as Fulton County Superior Court judges in the Family Division. They possess specific skill, aptitude and adeptness at handling complex domestic law issues. The Family Division Judicial Officers are highly oriented toward serving the public and are an integral part of the Family Division team.
Special Assistant Attorney General

Georgia State Law Department

(Legal Services industry)

2002 — 2006 (4 years )
Judge Pro Hac Vice

former City Court of Atlanta

(Legal Services industry)

2000 — 2005 (5 years )

As a part-time judge for the City Court of Atlanta (“Traffic Court”), Karlise Yvette Grier presided over designated sessions of the Traffic Court when a full-time judge was unavailable. Judge Grier conducted first appearance, bond, and commitment hearings in felony and misdemeanor cases, involving traffic offenses. She also issued rulings, decisions, and verdicts in bench trials in misdemeanor cases, involving traffic offenses. In addition, Judge Grier presided over plea and arraignment calendars in misdemeanor cases, involving traffic offenses.
Associate Attorney

Kilpatrick Stockton

(Legal Services industry)

1992 — 1994 (2 years )

Karlise Yvette Grier’s Education

Emory University School of Law

J.D. , Law , 1989 — 1992
Dartmouth College

B.A. , Computer Science, with additional emphasis in Economics , 1982 — 1986
Frederick Douglass High School

1977 — 1982
Phillips Academy (Andover) Summer Session

(MS)2 1979 — 1981

Additional Information

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Karlise Yvette Grier’s Interests:

Child Welfare, Family Law, Criminal Law, Trial Practice, Access to Justice, Atlanta History, Traveling and Reading.

Karlise Yvette Grier’s Groups:

United Methodist Church, Frederick Douglass High School Alumni Association, (MS)2 (a Phillips Academy (Andover) Summer Session program) Alumni Association, Atlanta Business League, Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys, Georgia Association of Licensed Adoption Agencies, American Academy of Adoption Attorneys, Lawyers Foundation of Georgia, State Bar of Georgia, Charles Longstreet Weltner Family Law Inn of Court, Collier Heights, State Bar of Georgia, Emory University, Dartmouth College, Atlanta Bar Association, Access to Justice, Lawyers Club of Atlanta