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.
Timia works in general liability litigation, defending clients in a variety of commercial matters including product liability, premises liability and toxic torts. Additionally, she has experience in the areas of labor and employment law. Timia has provided a broad array of labor and employment legal services for clients including counseling and advice, litigation and arbitration defense, responding to charges filed with government agencies, and conducting workplace investigations related to employees’ claims of discrimination and retaliation. She has also provided in-house legal services on secondment.
Timia earned her J.D. with honors from the University of Georgia School of Law, where she competed on the National Moot Court Team, served as a notes editor for the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law and participated in the law school’s Prosecutorial Justice Clinic.
During law school, she also interned for the Honorable Sara Doyle, presiding judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals, where she researched various substantive and procedural legal issues, drafted judicial opinions and orders and prepared bench memoranda in preparation for oral arguments. Credentials Bar Admissions Georgia U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia Middle District of Georgia Georgia Supreme Court Education J.D., cum laude , University of Georgia School of Law, 2019 The Order of Barristers Moot Court Team The Joseph Henry Lumpkin American Inn of Court Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law , Vol. 46, Notes Editor Prosecutorial Justice Clinic, Western-Judicial Circuit, Special Victims Unit Davenport-Benham Black Law Student Association, Secretary Pin Point Scholarship Recipient B.A., summa cum laude , Business Economics, Georgia State University, 2015 Student Judicial Board, Justice United Kingdom Hospitality Study Abroad Program Golden Key Honors Society Community Involvement Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys Gate City Bar Association Atlanta Bar Association