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Senior Administrative Staff
 
William H. Kitchens
Partner

404.873.8644  direct
404.873.8645  fax
william.kitchens@agg.com



Mr. Kitchens is a partner of the Firm and practice leader of the Firm's Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice Groups. He served as the Firm's Managing Partner from 1996 to 2008. He practices in the areas of food and drug law, environmental law, and trade association law and advises clients on matters relating to litigation, compliance and enforcement, product approvals, advertising and labeling, and regulatory, licensing, and permitting strategies. He has extensive experience representing clients in federal and state courts and before the Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Emory University School of Law, where he has taught a course in Food and Drug Law since 1979.  Mr. Kitchens has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (Biotechnology).


Professional Activities
  • American Bar Association
    – Administrative Law, Food and Drug Law Subcommittee
    – Antitrust Law
    – Business Law
    – Litigation
    – Environment, Energy and Resources Law 
    – Science and Technology Law
  • American Judicature Society
  • Atlanta Bar Association
  • Atlanta Bioscience Council
  • Food and Drug Law Institute
  • Georgia BIO, Board of Directors
  • Lawyers Foundation of Georgia, Fellow
  • State Bar of Georgia, Access to Justice Resource Development Committee
  • Atlanta Legal Aid Society
    – Chair, annual fund-raising campaign, 2008-2009
  • Editorial Board, Food and Drug Law Journal, 1981-87, 1996-2001
  • Medical Technology Leadership Forum, Southern Regional Task Force
  • Lawyers Club of Atlanta
  • The Best Lawyers in America
  • Selection, "Georgia Super Lawyers," Atlanta Magazine
Education
  • B.A., Emory University, 1970
    – With High Honors
  • J.D., University of Georgia School of Law, 1973
    – Notes Editor, The Georgia Law Review
Admitted to Practice
  • State of Georgia, 1973
  • Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia, 1974
  • United States Supreme Court, 1977
  • United States Court of Appeals for the First (1981), Fifth (1974) and Eleventh Circuits (1981)
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, 1974
Additional Information
Publications
  • Co-author, “It Doesn’t Necessarily Take a Village, But…: The Necessity of Internal Collaboration When Preparing a REMS Program,” Global Forum, Vol. 21, Issue 1, February 2010.
  • Author, "Tactical Approaches to Common Problems Affecting FDA-Regulated Companies," Food and Drug Law Settlements and Negotiations (Aspatore Books, 2006).
  • Author, “The Enigmatic Value of the Regulatory Function:  FDA, Clinical Trials, and Adventures in Wonderland,” Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, 2003.
  • Author, "Preventing Medication Misuse in Older Adults," Contemporary Long Term Care, 2003.
  • Author, "Where Science and Ethics Meet Business: FDA and Legislative Regulation of Biotechnology's New Medical Therapies," Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, 2002.
  • Author, "Taking Emerging Technologies Through Clinical Development and the Product Approval Procedures of the FDA and Other Agencies," Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, 2001.
  • Co-Author, "FDA Regime for Off-Label Use Emerges," The National Law Journal, August 1998.
  • Author, "FDA Regulation of Tissue Engineering," Synthetic Biodegradable Polymer Scaffolds (A. Atala, D. Mooney, eds., Birkhauser), 1997.
  • Co-Author, Georgia Environmental Law Handbook, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, 1996.
  • Co-Author, Georgia Jurisprudence: Environmental Law, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, 1995.
  • Author, "Introduction to the Symposium on Health Claims in Food Labeling and Advertising," Food and Drug Law Journal (1986)
  • Numerous presentations to industry and professional groups on food and drug law, environmental law, and trade regulation topics.


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