Robert Thomas Homlar

Robert Homlar has spent his nearly twenty-year career focused on going to court on behalf of clients and causes.  Robert graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1999 and from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2002, spending the last year of law school at the University of Georgia School of Law.  He is Martindale-Hubbell “AV” rated and listed among the National Trial Lawyers Top 100.

In criminal practice, Robert has gotten not-guilty jury verdicts for clients in the face of overwhelming evidence. He was a state prosecutor for more than ten years in Augusta, Georgia and Nashville, Tennessee handling over 3,000 criminal cases including several murders and large financial fraud cases down to simple possession and misdemeanor cases.  He handled several large-scale significant cases including prosecuting members of one of the most powerful and violent criminal drug syndicates in Mexico, transnational central American criminal gangs, and was responsible for the largest methamphetamine manufacturing conspiracy prosecution in Tennessee history.

In civil practice, he has both represented and fought against some of the largest consumer goods corporations, trucking manufacturers, and shipping companies in the world.  He has successfully represented clients with claims against state and local government agencies recovering millions for wronged people. Focusing on “whistleblower,” wrongful death, products liability, tractor-trailer (logging trucks and commercial trucks) and civil rights (including wrongful arrest, malicious prosecution, and violation of Federal rights) litigation, Robert has the background in these areas to get results for clients.  

 He is licensed to practice in every state court in Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee as well as the Supreme Court of Georgia, Georgia Court of Appeals, United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Middle District of Georgia, Northern District of Georgia, Middle District of Tennessee, Eastern District of Tennessee and District of South Carolina. In addition, he is admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth, Sixth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits and the United States Supreme Court having been sponsored by noted attorney Bobby Lee Cook, the inspiration for Matlock.  In 2017 he became one of approximately forty American attorneys admitted to practice before the International Criminal Court at the Hague.

He is an experienced trial attorney and has handled thousands of cases, scores of jury trials and hundreds of hearings across the southeast.  With a depth of real-world litigation experience at the highest level he is an accomplished and driven trial lawyer. Ready to help clients get the best possible result.

By staying focused on our core mission and areas of practice outlined below the firm is able to effectively represent the best interests of clients. If you need assistance with an area of law not within my practice areas (such as divorce, child custody, wills, bankruptcy, immigration, and the like), please still do consider contacting us. Whatever your legal need may be, Robert T. Homlar's office welcomes any potential client contact. If we cannot help, we are committed to pointing people in the direction of someone who can.