Linda Muir, Esq.

Secretary

Linda Torrence Muir is a business, corporate and estate planning attorney based in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is Of Counsel with The Saylor Law Firm LLP (www.saylorlaw.com), located in Midtown Atlanta and focusing its practice in Business, Corporate, Tax, Wills, Estates and Probate.  Ms. Muir has also established the firm in its Golden Isles Office, where it is convenient to clients in Sea Island, Saint Simons, and Brunswick.  Her practice now focuses in the areas of Business, Corporate, Estate Planning and Public Policy Advocacy.   A member of the Georgia State Bar since 1982, Ms. Muir was awarded the Juris Doctor degree that same year at Emory Law School, where she served on the editorial board of the Emory Law Journal.

Throughout her career, Ms. Muir has believed in serving her profession and her community.  She has served as President of the Legal Association of Women Students at Emory Law School, Secretary and President of the Atlanta Chapter of the American Corporate Counsel Association, President of the Vinings Homeowners Association, Founder of the Vinings Historic Preservation Society, and a Framer of the Women’s Leadership Board of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.  Having served on the boards of a number of organizations from time to time, she currently serves as Chair of the Board of the Sole Practitioner/Small Firm Section of the Atlanta Bar Association, Chair of the State Bar’s subcommittee on Civics Education, Secretary of the Georgia Women’s Institute, of which she is a founder, Chair of the Cool Girls Advisory Council, Vice President Programs and Strategic Planning of The International Alliance for Women, and Past President of the Atlanta Women’s Network. Ms. Muir is committed to drawing upon her years of experience and her expertise to bring the highest quality of service to her clients and her community.

Ms. Muir began practice as an Associate in the Corporate Department of King & Spalding, where she developed expertise in corporation and business law and in mergers and acquisitions.  From there, she moved to Contel Corporation, which merged with GTE Corporation in 1991, where she served as corporate counsel with Contel and as general counsel of GTE Mobilnet, which is now Verizon Wireless.  At Contel, she represented the company in negotiating and closing acquisitions and divestitures, supervising employee benefit matters, restructuring corporate subsidiaries, negotiating volume purchase agreements for telecommunications equipment, and filing comments with and appearing in front of the FCC.  At GTE Mobilnet, she was the general counsel responsible for the legal matters of the company’s cellular subsidiary and partnership interests, which accounted for approximately $1.5 billion in assets.  Following a brief tenure as Of Counsel in the Corporate Section with Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs, she served as the Executive Director of Corporate Outreach at BellSouth Corporation after joining the company in 1996 in the Regulatory and Legislative Matters Group.  There, she coordinated with outside counsel the company’s corporate positions on matters before the regulatory and legislative bodies of its nine-state southeastern region, and acted as the company’s public policy liaison to the women’s constituencies of the region.

Having taken early retirement from BellSouth in the summer of 2000, Ms. Muir founded The Muir Law Firm LLC in 2001, where she served as outside corporate counsel for businesses and corporations.  She is also one of the three co-founders and past president of Project Tsunami, Incorporated, now known as Quantum Leaps, Inc., a global accelerator of women’s entrepreneurship and a Georgia nonprofit company.

Prior to attending law school, Ms. Muir earned the Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude in philosophy at Newcomb College, the women’s college of Tulane University, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.  A member of Tulane Scholars and Fellows, she spent her junior year at Kings College of the University of London.  In 1976, she earned the Master of Arts degree in behavioral science at the University of Houston.  Following her undergraduate studies, she began her professional career with IBM Corporation in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, as a computer programmer.  Although a native of Nashville, Tennessee, Ms. Muir has made her home in Atlanta for over 30 years.  For the past three years, she has divided her time between Atlanta and Saint Simons.  She is married with two daughters and three grandchildren.