John M. Foy
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John Foy has been a member of the State Bar of Georgia since November 1993 and runs John Foy & Associates in Atlanta. The Bar lists him as an active member in good standing with no public discipline on record.
His listing is also, after nine bar checks across eight states, the first one where the register's published window covers the lawyer's entire career. That's worth explaining, because it means this badge is carrying more weight than some of the others on this site.
The bar record
Why this check covers more than most
Georgia states that its site publishes public disciplinary history from January 1991 onward, and shows disbarment from any time at all. Foy was admitted in November 1993.
The window opens two years before his career does. There is no stretch of his 32 years that Georgia's record doesn't reach. Compare that with the two Florida listings on this site:
All three read as clean or currently in good standing. They are not the same statement. Gerson's 30-day suspension in 2018 happened to fall inside Florida's decade — four years earlier and the same page would have shown nothing. Foy's record has no such edge to fall off.
This is the clearest illustration we've found of why we date every check and name every register. "Verified" is not a uniform unit.
What Georgia still won't tell you
Georgia is unusually forthcoming about its own limits, and three of them are worth carrying:
Reinstatement can read as good standing. The Bar states plainly that if an attorney has been suspended or disbarred and subsequently reinstated or readmitted, the site could show their membership status as "in Good Standing". Status and history are different questions. On Foy's listing the separate public discipline field reads "None on Record", and the window covers his whole career — but that warning is why we read the two fields as two facts, not one.
Grievances and private discipline are confidential. Georgia says it cannot confirm or deny that a grievance has been filed, that an attorney is under investigation, or that private discipline was issued. Illinois says much the same. What's published is the public record, and the public record is not the whole record.
No warranty. The Bar provides the data with no warranty of any kind and cautions that attorneys may have similar names. We matched on the firm and the Peachtree Road address, which is exactly the check that caution is asking for.
Rideshare
This is one of three firms on this site that treat rideshare as a stated practice area. John Foy & Associates runs a dedicated rideshare accident page for Atlanta, alongside its car, truck, motorcycle and bus accident pages.Verified
That matters more than it sounds. Of the twelve lawyers we've bar-checked, only LegalRideshare takes rideshare work exclusively, and only Amaro and Foy publish a dedicated page for it. The rest run general injury practices that rideshare claims arrive at rather than aim for. Neither approach is wrong — but they're different things, and a search engine won't tell you which one you're looking at.
Practice and firm
The firm is a personal injury practice covering car, drunk driving, rear-end and uninsured motorist accidents, motorcycle, bus, truck and rideshare claims, dog bites, slip and falls, workers' compensation, social security disability and wrongful death.Reported It operates in Spanish and offers a free consultation, and it lists service areas across Georgia including Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Marietta, Roswell and Sandy Springs.Reported We haven't established which of those are staffed offices and which are service areas — worth asking if you're not in Atlanta.
Foy advertises heavily, including television, and is known in the market as "the Strong Arm".Reported We mention it because you'll notice it, and because advertising volume tells you about a marketing budget and nothing whatsoever about a lawyer. The register is the part that's checkable.
One detail we'll note without drawing a conclusion from it: the firm publishes a page on illegal case solicitation under its ethics and values section.Reported Given that this directory has rejected listings for lead-generation broking and passed over a firm over allegations about solicited reviews, a practice that addresses the subject on its own site is at least unusual. We haven't read it closely enough to say more.
What we haven't checked
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