Suwanee, GA

Thomas Sterns Kenney

Thomas Sterns Kenney has over 30 years of experience, achieving significant appellate court victories and substantial recoveries for clients in various cases including contract, fraud, car wrecks, medical malpractice, and premises liability. He has tried over 500 jury trials, bench trials, and arbitration hearings.

Casey William Stevens

Casey W. Stevens specializes solely in personal injury and wrongful death cases. He began his career in 1988 as an insurance claims adjuster, then worked as an insurance defense attorney, and in 2001, opened his own firm representing plaintiffs. This background provides him with unique insight into insurance company tactics. He has been recognized as a National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Trial Lawyer and voted among the top 5% of attorneys in Georgia by Super Lawyers.

Thomas F. Brown

Attorney Thomas F. Brown, II has over four decades of experience representing injured workers and handling Social Security disability and personal injury automobile accident cases. He graduated from The Citadel, served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam, and earned his J.D. from Woodrow Wilson College of Law. He co-founded Burdine & Brown in 1979 and is a strong advocate for the injured and disabled, having also helped found the Workers' Compensation Claimants' Lawyers.

Christa Kirk

Christa Kirk is the founder of The Kirk Law Firm, P.C., specializing in personal injury, criminal defense, and family law in the Atlanta region. With extensive experience as a litigator, including nearly a decade as a prosecutor, she is skilled in both courtroom advocacy and negotiation, passionately helping clients through difficult times.

R. Parker McFarland Jr.

Attorney R. “Parker” McFarland, Jr. is a fourth generation attorney whose mission is to restore lives shattered by wrongful death and serious accidents and injuries. Since 2020, Parker has been voted “BEST PERSONAL INJURY ATTORNEY” four (4) times by the Forsyth County News. Parker is a Christian advocate who prays for and with his clients, providing aggressive legal representation rooted in faith and genuine care and concern. Parker’s great-grandfather, John Alexander McFarland, started practicing in 1905 and quickly became a prolific trial lawyer who won 2/3 of his cases. His son, Parker’s grandfather, Joe Alexander McFarland, was president of his law school class at Ole Miss and was a county attorney and circuit judge in Jasper, Mississippi. Joe McFarland was so well respected that he was invited to be a judge at the Supreme Court of Mississippi. Parker McFarland was raised in Cumming, graduated from South Forsyth High School in 1994, and obtained his B.A. degree in English at Covenant College. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from Mississippi College of Law in 2001, although he completed his final year of law school at the University of Georgia. Parker practiced law with his father, Robert “Bob” P. McFarland, Sr. at McFarland & McFarland, P.C. from 2001 until his father’s retirement in 2015. Following a merger, Parker McFarland was brought to this firm as a partner in 2015. Since that time, the firm has been consistently been voted “Best of Forsyth.” Parker is a trial and appellate lawyer whose practice focuses on serious personal injury and wrongful death cases arising from auto accidents and others’ negligence. Through the firm’s core values of wisdom, integrity, prayer, excellence, and selflessness, Parker has secured many significant recoveries against auto insurance companies for serious injuries and wrongful death. Parker is admitted to practice in all state, superior, federal, and appellate courts in Georgia as well as the United States Supreme Court. Parker has served as attorney coach of the South Forsyth High School Mock Trial team since 2009. He is a past president of the Forsyth County Bar Association, member of the North Forsyth Rotary Club, and serves on the Board of Directors of Signature Awakening Ministries. Parker and his wife, Nicole, together with their three children, Mary Elizabeth McFarland, Robert Parker McFarland III, and Joshua VanMeter McFarland live in Cumming, Georgia and are active members of Restoration Church in Alpharetta. Parker’s wife, Nicole, works in international missions, is an author, and highly sought after Bible teacher. Parker has coordinated the Forsyth County National Day of Prayer event since 2020 and also serves on the state team for Georgia National Day of Prayer.

Phil Pilgrim

Phil Pilgrim is a criminal defense lawyer specializing in DUI detection and enforcement defense. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice, and earned his Juris Doctorate from Georgia State University. During law school, he clerked for Judge Steve C. Jones and worked as a prosecutor for the Forsyth County Solicitor General’s Office and the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office. After law school, he continued as a prosecutor in Forsyth County, becoming a Senior Assistant and acting Assistant Solicitor on the Forsyth County DUI Court, prosecuting hundreds of DUI cases. He was also an instructor at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center (GPSTC) on DUI Detection and Enforcement. Phil left public service in 2007 and co-founded Carter/Pilgrim in 2013. In 2021, Carter/Pilgrim merged with Banks, Stubbs & McFarland, where he joined as a partner. His practice now focuses 100% on DUI, Serious Injury by Vehicle, and Vehicular Homicide cases, with an 85% non-DUI resolution rate. He is a very experienced trial lawyer, having tried countless cases from misdemeanor DUI to felony murder. He is a devoted husband and father, and a member of The Vine United Methodist Church.

Kristina Potra

Attorney Kristina Potra attended Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia and graduated in May of 2001, a year after her husband, Attorney Cornel Potra. While in law school, Attorney Kristina won the semi-finalist award in the Mock Trial competition. She also held an active role as a pastor’s wife helping her husband pastor a local church. During Attorney Kristina’s years in law school, the Potra family had two energetic children, and before Attorney Kristina graduated, their number increased to three. After graduation, Attorneys Potra moved to Georgia where Attorney Kristina became a member of the Georgia Bar in 2002. Over the years, she has enjoyed closely working with her husband as they established and steadily developed the firm. For years, she focused primarily on personal injury cases, and through that area of law, she brought variety to Potra Law Firm’s practice. Now, she continues to play an essential role at Potra Law Firm both as a Partner of the firm, and by working together with Attorney Potra to expand the firm and enlarge its community impact. In her spare time, Attorney Kristina enjoys building her family by spending time and being involved with the couple’s now five children and their activities. What she loves most about being a Partner at Potra Law Firm is the opportunity to contribute to the growth of its employees, and by extension, to the growth of the community in which Potra Law Firm serves.