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Faison has significant jury trial and arbitration experience as lead counsel in state and federal courts in both commercial and tort litigation. His litigation experience includes hundreds of pre-trial and post-trial hearings involving all conceivable aspects of complex tort and business litigation, including expert witness challenges and other evidentiary matters.

Faison is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Dougherty Circuit Bar Association and the Defense Research Institute (DRI). He has presented at numerous CLEs, including the Product Liability Seminar sponsored by DRI and the Trial Tactics Seminar sponsored by the Dougherty Bar Association. He is active in the Product Liability Section of the Georgia Bar, and has published in its newsletter. Locally, he has served on numerous committees for the Dougherty Circuit Bar Association. He formerly chaired numerous committees for the Atlanta Bar Association, including the Law Day Committee, and served as the Regional Coordinator of the High School Mock Trial Competition in the Atlanta Region for four years. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Council of Younger Lawyers and a former member of the Lawyers Club of Atlanta.

After earning a B.A. from Emory University in 1992, Faison graduated cum laude in 1995 from Georgia State University College of Law, where he served as managing editor of the Georgia State University Law Review. Faison began his law career with three Atlanta law firms. In late 2003, he left the partnership of McKenna, Long & Aldridge to move back to his hometown of Albany and joined the partnership of Watson, Spence, Lowe and Chambless LLP, now known as Watson Spence LLP.

He served on the Board of Trustees of Leadership Georgia from 2008 through 2010, including serving as Selections Chair. From its inception in 2006 through 2010, he served as the President of the non-profit Lily Pad SANE Center, Inc. in Albany, which serves as a regional provider of forensic and advocacy services to assist victims of sexual assault and child abuse. He remains a member of the Executive Committee of Lily Pad and the Executive Boardroom was recently named in his honor.

Faison is a graduate of the 2005/2006 class of Leadership Albany and a graduate of the 2007 Class of Leadership Georgia. He is a member of the Dougherty County Rotary Club and serves on the Board of Directors as Treasurer. In 2010, he was appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue to serve on the Georgia Student Finance Commission as the representative from the Second Congressional District, and he continues to serve in this capacity. In recent years, Faison has served on the Young Executive Board of Regions Bank in Albany, the Board of Directors of the Albany Chamber of Commerce and its Executive Committee, the Board of Trustees of the Albany Museum of Art, the Board of Directors of First Tee of Albany, and the Corporate Gifts Committee of Albany Community Hospice Campaign. He has been actively involved with the annual Wild Affair event benefitting the Flint Riverquarium in Albany.

Faison and his wife, Kari, are the parents of two sons and attend St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Albany.