William H. Kitchens 404.873.8644 [direct] 404.873.8645 [fax] william.kitchens@agg.com Area of Practice Litigation, Food and Drug Law, Environmental

Mr. Kitchens is Managing Partner of the firm. He practices in the areas of food and drug law, environmental law, and trade association law and advises clients on matters relating to compliance and enforcement, litigation, 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 Law School, where he has taught a course in Food and Drug Law since 1979.

Professional Activities

• American Bar Association (Sections: Antitrust Law; Business Law; Food and Drug Law Subcommittee; Litigation; Environment, Energy and Resources Law; and Science and Technology Law)
  
• American Judicature Society
  
• Atlanta Bar Association
  
• Food and Drug Law Institute
  
• Georgia Biomedical Partnership
  
• Lawyers Club of Atlanta
  
• State Bar of Georgia
  
• Editorial Board, Food and Drug Law Journal, 1981-87, 1996-2001
  
  
Publications

• 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.
• Co-Author, "FDA Regime for Off-Label Use Emerges," The National Law Journal, (August 1998).
  
• Author, "Taking Emerging Technologies Through Clinical Development and the Product Approval Procedures of the FDA and Other Agencies," Biotechnology, Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, 2001.
  
• 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's Cooperative Publishing 1995)
  
• Associate Editor, Georgia Environmental Law Letter (M. Lee Smith Publishers & Printers)
  
• Author, The Environmental Movement Heads Indoors: Indoor Air Quality Developments Affecting Building Owners and Managers, Quarterly Report, The Daily Report (Feb. 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.

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