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Roy E. Barnes

Barnes Law Group, LLC · 31 Atlanta Street SE, Marietta, GA

✓ Bar verified · Jul 2026Trial firm

53 yrs

At the Georgia bar

Admitted 2 Nov 1972

None

Public discipline

On record, per the State Bar

19 yrs

Outside the window

Window opens January 1991

Active

Member in good standing

Sections recorded

Fifty-three years at the Georgia bar and the 80th Governor of Georgia. The State Bar registers him as Hon. Roy E. Barnes. His is also the listing where Georgia's window matters most: he was admitted in 1972 and the register publishes from January 1991, so nineteen years of his career sit outside what it shows. His registered office is in Marietta, not Atlanta.

The bar record

State Bar of Georgia · member directory Record retrieved 29 July 2026

Full name

Hon. Roy E. Barnes

Status

Active Member in Good Standing

Public discipline

None on Record

Admit date

2 November 1972

Law school

University of Georgia

Sections

Consumer Law

Firm

Barnes Law Group, LLC

Practice areas

Georgia’s directory does not publish them

Fee options

Georgia’s directory does not publish them

Address of record

31 Atlanta Street SE, Marietta, GA 30060 · Tel 770-419-8505

What Georgia’s window covers

Georgia publishes public disciplinary history from January 1991 onward, and shows disbarment from any time at all. That is the widest window of any register on this site.

Roy E. Barnes was admitted 2 November 1972 — 19 years before the window opens. Those 19 years are not covered by what the register displays. Georgia does show disbarment from any time at all, so that specific outcome is accounted for; nothing lesser is.

This is the same shape of gap as Florida’s ten-year window, just at the other end of a career. It does not suggest anything is there. It means the register cannot tell you either way.

So read the badge narrowly. It means a human opened the State Bar of Georgia directory on 29 July 2026 and read what it says about Roy E. Barnes. Georgia publishes no practice areas and no fee terms, so the rideshare tag on this listing comes from the firm’s own site rather than the Bar.

Background

His bio says he was elected to the Georgia State Senate at 26, served eight terms, then the State House, and was elected Governor in 1998, serving one term. It says he received the 2003 John F. Kennedy Library Foundation Profile in Courage Award.Reported

It says he graduated with honours from the University of Georgia law school in 1972 and worked as a Cobb County prosecutor before opening his first firm in 1975 — which fits the register's 1972 admission date.Reported

The bio says he has appeared in more than 250 appellate cases and describes a class action against Fleet Finance in the early 1990s.Reported

Rideshare

Rideshare content — checked 29 Jul 2026

Uber & Lyft

barneslawgroup.com — dedicated Atlanta rideshare accident lawyer page

This is the firm’s own marketing. It shows they hold themselves out as taking rideshare cases — it is not evidence that they have run one, and we have not verified any rideshare case they have handled.

What we haven’t checked

Not established. Nineteen years of his career, 1972 to 1991, which Georgia's register does not reach. Georgia shows disbarment from any time, so that specific outcome is covered — but nothing lesser is. Whether an Atlanta rideshare file is run from Marietta, about twenty miles north-west. Any court records for case outcomes. Any settlement or verdict figure. We have no basis for judging quality of representation. A bar check is a floor, not a ranking.

Barnes Law Group31 Atlanta Street SE, Marietta, GA 30060

770-419-8505 barneslawgroup.com

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