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City: Atlanta
State: GA
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A true educator, Cicely Barber began her professional career as a first grade teacher in Atlanta’s inner-city school system. Cicely’s drive to achieve led her to enroll in law school, so she returned to her home state of Michigan to attend Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Cicely has been licensed to practice law since 2000.
Cicely spent the first part of her legal career working in the public sector as a staff attorney to the Chief Judge of the largest trial court in Georgia. In her tenure as staff attorney, Cicely gained extensive litigation experience by managing the judge’s civil case docket, which consisted of hundreds of cases, including personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, product liability, and breach of contract cases.
Today, Cicely blends her passion for teaching with her law degree by providing practical legal training and professional development seminars to legal professionals through her company, Litigation Training Solutions, LLC and teaching paralegals enrolled in Emory University’s Paralegal Program. In addition to teaching at Emory University, Cicely has taught at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia and online for Kaplan University in Florida. Cicely’s teaching background coupled with her legal training make her uniquely qualified to speak to diverse audiences about complex topics.
Cicely's client base is not limited to legal professionals. She also enjoys providing training in corporate environments as well. She recently expanded her client base to include professional athletes and entertainers. Cicely coaches this unique group of professionals on how to effectively address the media.
Cicely is a member of the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys and the Georgia State Bar’s Women & Minorities in the Profession Committee. Cicely is also on the Board of Directors for Georgia Legal Services Program. She is a trained mediator and occasionally serves as a Guardian Ad Litem in child custody cases. Cicely is a cum laude graduate of both Spelman College and Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Cicely balances all of the above with her roles as wife and mother to two children, Skylar and Bryan.
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