Maury Bowen is a partner in the firm, practicing in the areas of employment, labor, corporate, transactional and business law. She graduated from University of the South, Sewanee and the University of Georgia School of Law. Maury came to the firm after serving as Assistant General Counsel for a major sugar company. She has also practiced law in the areas of general defense litigation, and has served in a judicial clerkship.

In her corporate and transactional practice, Maury provides general representation to small and large corporate clients by setting up corporate entities, drafting contracts, creating company policies and procedures, handling small and large asset sales and acquisitions, conducting due diligence, implementing plant closures and drafting severance agreements.
In connection with representing her corporate clients, Maury handles business arbitrations, as well as labor arbitrations. She has defended all manner of employment-related disputes, including charges filed with both the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In addition, she has defended Department of Labor complaints, unemployment appeals, and investigated all manner of employment matters including complaints of harassment, discrimination and retaliation. In addition to her seminar training experience listed below, Maury has extensive experience conducting training to supervisors and employees in the areas of diversity and prevention of harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

In addition to working with a number of charitable organizations, Maury is a member of the Savannah Bar Association executive committee, and is past president of both the Younger Lawyers Division of the Savannah Bar Association (2000-2001), and the Savannah chapter of the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers. Maury is a member in good standing of the State Bar of Georgia.

Seminar Instructor Experience

• Developments in Labor & Employment Law: Savannah Bar Assoc. Hot Topics Seminar, September 1997
• Employment Law Seminar, Management Assistance Program of Savannah, November, 1997
• Company Policies, Documentation & Discipline, Lorman Educational Services, April, 1999
• The ADA, Worker's Compensation and FMLA Overlap Puzzle, Council on Education in Mgmt., August, 1999
• Update on Sexual Harassment Law, Society of Human Resources Managers, November 1999
• Sexual Harassment Law after Farragher and Burlington, American Law Firm Association International Conference (Phoenix, AZ), March, 2000
• Organizing against "Organization:" Union Avoidance Through Knowledge and Preparation, Southern Management Network, October, 2001
• Prevention of Sexual Harassment and Discrimination in the Workplace, February, 2002
• An Introduction to Limited Liability Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships, National Business Institute, May, 2004
• Using Your Time Wisely: Avoiding Harassment, Discrimination and Retaliation Claims, January and September of 2005

Education

• University of the South, Sewanee (B.A., 1990)
• University of Georgia School of Law, (J.D. 1994)

Related Experience

• Assistant General Counsel, Imperial Sugar Company
• Employee Relations Specialist, Savannah Foods & Industries, Inc.
• Lawyer, Bouhan, Williams & Levy, Savannah, Georgia

Professional Memberships

• State Bar of Georgia, Labor and Employment Law Section
• Savannah Bar Association: Executive Board (1999 to 2002), Seminar Committee Chair (1999-2000)
• Younger Lawyers Section Executive Board (1995 to 2002)
• Younger Lawyers Section Executive Board President (2000-2001)
• Georgia Association of Women Lawyers (President, Savannah Chapter, 2001-2002)

Court Admissions

• Georgia State and Superior Courts
• Supreme Court of Georgia
• Court of Appeals of Georgia
• United States District Court, Southern District of Georgia

Charitable Boards

• Rape Crises Center of Savannah (1997-2000, Board President, 1999-2000)
• Second Harvest Food Bank of Coastal Georgia (1995-1997)