Previous Congressman Collins joins Clarkesville legislation company

Previous Ga Congressman Doug Collins has joined a regulation business in Clarkesville. Collins, who represented the 9th Congressional District, now declared he has joined the law organization of Oliver & Weidner LLC, the place he will specialize in civil and felony litigation.

Collins joins attorneys Jim Weidner, Invoice Oliver, and retired Habersham County Superior Courtroom Judge Bucky Woods at the company.

“I’m thrilled to announce that I have joined Oliver & Weidner,” states Collins. “Bill and Jim have very long been mates and are properly revered for the company they present to households and firms here in our local community. North Ga will normally be household for me, which is why I’m specially grateful for the option to return to training legislation appropriate here in Clarkesville.”

A indigenous of Gainesville, Collins will come to Habersham County by way of Washington D.C. wherever he served in Congress from 2013 until eventually this earlier January. He still left D.C. following an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate.

“I’m thrilled to have him with us. [Doug’s] a wonderful dude. I’ve known him for many years, for a long time truly, and his integrity and honesty are unsurpassed,” Weidner tells Now Habersham. “I’m just glad to have him on board and am seeking ahead to working towards law with him.”

Collins served 5 a long time in the Ga Home of Representatives right before he was elected to Congress. During his first term in the state legislature, he graduated from Atlanta’s John Marshall Law University and set up his own legal practice.

Through his time in Congress, Collins served on the Home Judiciary Committee. He was named Ranking Member of the Committee in 2019.

As the top rated Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, Collins led the protection of President Donald Trump during the Property impeachment proceedings in 2019, and also served on the President’s protection team in the course of the Senate trial in 2020.

Trump has claimed in the past he would like to see Collins obstacle Ga Gov. Brian Kemp in the major election upcoming 12 months.

A chaplain in the U.S. Air Power Reserve, Collins has ministered to the country’s armed forces considering that 2002. He accomplished a 2008-2009 deployment to Iraq although stationed at Balad Air Force Base. As a Lieutenant Colonel, Collins continues to be lively in the Air Force Reserve right now.