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Aaron
E.
Pohlmann
Aaron Pohlmann's areas of practice include ERISA, employee benefits, employment, and life, health, and disability insurance litigation. Since completing a federal judicial clerkship, Mr. Pohlmann has represented employers, ERISA plan fiduciaries, third-party administrators, insurers, and managed healthcare entities in a wide variety of litigation. Mr. Pohlmann has extensive experience in Georgia federal and state courts, and has handled matters in Tennessee and South Carolina courts. Mr. Pohlmann holds several leadership positions in the American Bar Association. He is the chair-elect of the ABA TIPS Life Insurance Law Committee, is a Vice Chair of the ABA TIPS Employee Benefits Committee, and is Executive Editor of the ABA TIPS TortSource periodical. Mr. Pohlmann is a past Vice Chair of the ABA TIPS Health and Disability Committee, and the former website editor for the ABA TIPS Life Insurance Law Committee. Mr. Pohlmann was a 2008 graduate of the ABA TIPS Leadership Academy. Mr. Pohlmann is a three-time contributing author to ERISA Survey of Federal Circuits (American Bar Association, 2005, 2007, 2009), and has written numerous articles on ERISA and Life, Health, and Disability litigation in various publications of the ABA and the Defense Research Institute. Mr. Pohlmann has planned and moderated ABA continuing legal education seminars in the areas of HIPAA compliance and health insurance litigation.
Education
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J.D., Emory University School of Law, 2000,
Managing Editor, Emory International Law Review
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B.A., Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1995
Admissions
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Georgia, 2001
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Georgia Supreme Court
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Georgia Court of Appeals
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United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
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United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia
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United States District Court, Middle District of Georgia
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United States District Court, Southern District of Georgia
Professional Memberships
- American Bar Association, Tort, Trial & Insurance Practice Section
- Life Insurance Law Committee, Chair Elect
- Employee Benefits Committee, Vice Chair
- TortSource Editorial Board, Executive Editor
- Atlanta Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute (Life, Health and Disability Committee)
Experience
- Clerkships
- Law Clerk to U.S. District Judge Tom Stagg, Western District of Louisiana, 2000-2001
- Extern to Justice Norman Fletcher, Supreme Court of Georgia, 1999
- Extern to U.S. Magistrate Judge Roy S. Payne, Western District of Louisiana, 1998
- Assisted in editing and updating articles, Labor Relations & Public Policy Series, Wharton Industrial Research Unit, University of Pennsylvania
Publications
- Contributing author, ERISA Survey of Federal Circuits, 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions (American Bar Association, 2005, 2007, 2009)
- Contributing author, Misrepresentation in the Life, Health, and Disability Insurance Application Process: A National Survey (American Bar Association, 2009)
- "Circuit Split Endures over Exhaustion of Remedies for Fiduciary Duty Claims," DRI's Life, Health and Disability News, Fall 2008
- "Discovery And The Analytical Foundations Of ERISA Cases Subject To "Heightened" Arbitrary And Capricious Judicial Review ," The ABA's Health and Disability Insurance Law Committee Newsletter, Summer 2007
- "Non-fiduciary's ERISA Benefits Determination Entitled to Deferential Judicial Review," DRI's The Voice, December 20, 2006
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