Timia A. Skelton

Timia works in general liability litigation, defending clients in a variety of commercial disputes including employment matters, product liability, premises liability and insurance coverage. Her employment legal services for clients including providing counseling and advice related to various issues including protected leave and workplace accommodations. She prepares employment-related agreements and policies and helps clients navigate performance management issues and disciplinary actions arising from policy violations or other workplace misconduct. Her employment practice also includes 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 to Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company during a six-month secondment.

Timia earned her J.D. with honors from the University of Georgia School of Law, where she competed on the 2019 Andrews Kurth National Moot Court Team, securing a national victory for the University of Georgia. She 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 her time in the Prosecutorial Justice Clinic, Timia worked in the Sexual Victims Unit of Georgia’s Western Judicial Circuit.  

During law school, she also interned for the Honorable Sara Doyle 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.