Alan R. Perry, Jr. has over 30 years experience in handling complex securities matters (litigation and arbitration) as well as other litigation matters. Among other things, he participated in the prosecution of many securities class actions, including the Oxford Health Plans securities fraud class action that resulted in a $300 million recovery for investors. Mr. Perry has served as lead or co-lead counsel in approximately a dozen jury trials and arbitrations and has argued numerous appeals. He has appeared in federal court cases in Atlanta, San Francisco, Minneapolis, New York, Houston and Chicago, among others. His diverse Georgia state court practice has taken him from Valdosta and Columbus, Greensboro, Conyers and Ellijay, to courts in each of the five Atlanta metropolitan-area counties. Before forming Page Perry, and during his years as an associate and then partner at the Atlanta-based firm Kilpatrick Townsend, Mr. Perry’s trial experience ranged from plaintiffs’ personal injury and wrongful death cases (including a multi-million dollar recovery in a medical malpractice matter) to complex business litigation.
Mr. Perry is admitted to practice before all Georgia trial and appellate courts, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the American Bar Association (Litigation Section: Class Actions and Derivative Suits/Securities Litigation Committees), the State Bar of Georgia, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, the Atlanta Bar Association, and the Lawyers Club of Atlanta.
Mr. Perry received his B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1976 with honors) and his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan (1980 magna cum laude). He was a member of the Order of the Coif and a Note Editor on the Journal of Law Reform. From 1980 to 1981, he clerked for Judge Edward A. Tamm of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Mr. Perry has been active in pro bono matters, working closely with Hands on Atlanta, Habitat for Humanity, and other community organization. He is a Life Fellow of the Lawyers Foundation of Georgia.
