Kenyatta Thorpe is an associate in our Tifton office, practicing in general liability and insurance coverage law.
Prior to joining HBS, Kenyatta worked as a managing attorney for the MidSouth Alternate Defender’s Office, where she reorganized the process by which conflict cases were assigned and managed a caseload of over 150 violent felonies. She also served as a senior assistant district attorney in the Juvenile Division of the Dougherty County District Attorney’s Office. While there, she maintained the juvenile court for the circuit and prosecuted juveniles charged as adults under Senate Bill 440
Kenyatta earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Appalachian School of Law, where she was a member of the Employment Law Moot Court Team and president of the Black Law Student’s Association. She also was a recipient of the Little Red Wagon Community Service Award and the Anthony L. Sutin Soul of ASL Award. She earned her Bachelor of Science, cum laude, from Georgia State University.
Credentials
- State Courts:
- Court of Appeals, Supreme Court
Education
- J.D., cum laude, Appalachian School of Law
- B.S., cum laude, Georgia State University, 2011
Memberships
- Tifton Circuit Bar Association
- The National Black Lawyers Top 100
With over a decade of experience in personal injury law, Trial Banks approaches every case with both strategy and heart. Our founder, Attorney Rian Banks, spent years working for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 insurance companies as a defense attorney, gaining firsthand insight into how these corporations prioritize profits over people. That experience revealed how insurers often reduce real pain into numbers that protect their bottom line. That perspective now fuels the firm’s mission: to stand up for people when the system tries to undervalue their story, their injury, and their future.
Today, Trial Banks represents people across Georgia after life-changing injuries: car crashes, truck wrecks, motorcycle collisions, nursing home neglect, or abuse by a home health agency. We also make space for people who are often overlooked—clients from minority communities, people unsure of who to trust, and families worried about what might happen if they speak up.
Flynn D. Broady, Jr., an Army combat veteran and prosecutor, became District Attorney of the Cobb Judicial Circuit on Jan. 1, 2021 with a vow to hold violent criminals accountable while restoring nonviolent offenders to productive lives. DA Broady believes wider community engagement, including expanded access to accountability courts and more visible victim advocacy, are essential to that effort.
DA Broady is a native of Birmingham. He spent more than two decades in the Army as an instructor, a recruiter and a combat infantryman with tours in Iraq. He earned his law degree at Seton Hall University, where he also led ROTC. He previously prosecuted cases in the Solicitor General’s Office and also served as coordinator of the Veterans Treatment and Accountability Court. He and his family live in Marietta.
Marissa Crespo is an entertainment and business law attorney, author, and entrepreneur. As the principal of Crespo Law Office, P.C., she represents entertainment content creators, multi-national publicly traded companies, private corporations, and media conglomerates in complex commercial deals and entertainment transactions.
Acknowledging her passion to bring more of a personable approach as a lawyer, while leveraging her previous corporate experience working for an AmLaw 100 firm, Ms. Crespo chose a more entrepreneurial path in starting her own law firm to provide premium quality representation, with a culture centered on exceptional customer service and professionalism. Noted as the self-proclaimed "The Culture Curator®" she creatively crafts and curates intellectual property works from a legal perspective to help protect the cultural narrative and voices of her clients. Whether she is representing more conservative corporations or more progressive, entrepreneurial content creators and companies, Ms. Crespo provides a chameleon-style approach to adapt to the short-term and long-term business goals of each client.
In the entertainment industry, Ms. Crespo has been involved in deals for television shows on major networks such as NBC, VH1, Bravo, and WE tv, including such shows as Love and Hip-Hop and the Real Housewives franchises, and has negotiated development deals for scripted and unscripted television shows and films. She has negotiated brand sponsorships and IP licensing deals on behalf of writers, and new media adult and kid influencers, secured the registration and SAG-AFTRA franchising of minority and women-owned talent agencies and management firms throughout the country, and has successfully drafted and negotiated film deals for directors, writers, actors, and production companies as production legal counsel on films that have premiered at Tribeca and Sundance.
A frequent writer and panelist on entertainment-related issues, Ms. Crespo has been published by Thomson Reuters and in leading entertainment trade journals such as Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts and the New York Bar Association’s Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Journal, and is currently a freelance writer for Screencraft, and is a member of the Authors Guild.
Bar Admissions:
New York, New Jersey, Georgia
Certifications:
Fashion Law Certificate, Fordham Law School
Giget C. Johnson graduated from Clark Atlanta University, located in Atlanta, Georgia, with both a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Master of Science degree. She obtained her Juris Doctor degree from Mercer University, Walter F. George School of Law, located in Macon, Georgia. Admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 2002, Giget is authorized to practice law in both state and federal courts, at both trial and appellate levels. She is admitted to practice before the Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia, the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, the U.S. District Court in the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh and Sixth Circuits. Giget is a registered sports agent.