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Attorney Profile
Education
Emory University, BA
1993
Emory University, JD 1996
Practice Areas
Mr. Tharp practice areas
include both business litigation and family law matters. Much like his
law partner, Mr. Meriwether, he finds that handling both types of cases
provides unique advantages for his clients. His business litigation and
small business experience helps provide extensive financial expertise in
handling divorces with large, complicated estates. His family law
practice helps provide more frequent courtroom experiences that help him
to continue to learn how to best present cases in front of judges and
juries.
Mr. Tharp handles a broad range of family law cases including divorce,
modification actions, contempt proceedings, and appellant work. He
regularly handles estates with large and unique assets, such as a
business which can be difficult to value during a divorce proceeding.
Mr. Tharp has completed formal mediation training and utilizes this
knowledge to achieve favorable results while amicably trying to resolve
matters for his clients. Although Mr. Tharp strongly believes that
parties should try to resolve matters in a collaborative fashion
whenever possible, he also willing, when necessary and appropriate, to
utilize his extensive debate skills in a courtroom for his client’s
advantage.
General Background and Education
Robert L. Tharp was born on
Beale Air Force Base, California. As a child of a military family, he
has lived all across the United States and abroad. In high school, Mr.
Tharp started to compete at a national level in high school debate.
Mr. Tharp went college at Emory University and graduated in 1993. While
in college, Mr. Tharp served as an active leader on campus and was
president of the College Republicans, statewide officer of the College
Republicans, president of the Georgia Conservancy, student
representative to the Southern Accreditation Committee, and officer of
Delta Tau Delta. Mr. Tharp also continued to develop his debate skills
in college winning numerous college debate tournament awards including
best freshman debater, most improved debater, and 1st place at
Vanderbilt’s national debate competition. Mr. Tharp also reached
elimination rounds for the national debate championship during his time
in college.
Mr. Tharp stayed at Emory for
law school and received his Juris Doctor Degree in May of 1996. In
addition to the rigors of a law school curriculum, Mr. Tharp remained
active within the college and high school debate community by helping to
coach Emory University’s college debate program and serving as an
assistant debate coach for several local high schools including Milton
high school in Alpharetta, Georgia.
Mr. Tharp has continued to
advance his education and skills since graduation from law school, most
recently with his completion of formal mediation training to help better
serve his client’s needs in this growing area of dispute resolution.
Civic Involvement
Mr. Tharp served on the Board
of Directors for Emory University’s debate program, the Barkley Forum
for a number of years. As part of Mr. Tharp’s contributions to Emory
during this time period, he ran the Lincoln Douglas portion of the
annual Barkley Forum for high school debate tournament at Emory
University (the largest high school debate tournament in the nation)
while supervising and coaching Emory students during the school year and
high school students and high school teachers during annual summer
debate workshops. Mr. Tharp also provided extensive help to the
Georgia’s high school debate community by helping to run twenty plus
high school tournaments a year throughout the greater Atlanta area
including tournaments at Milton and Chattahoochee high school.
In addition, Mr. Tharp helped to establish and provided extensive
hands-on service for the Urban Debate League program for high school and
junior high school students. Mr. Tharp worked with establishing three of
the initial Urban debate league programs in this country in Atlanta,
Baltimore, and New York – a program that has expanded to 18 of the
nation’s largest cities, served 311 urban high schools, 51 urban middle
schools, and 37,000 urban public school students.
For these accomplishments, Mr.
Tharp was the sole recipient of Emory University’s prestigious Warren
Akin Outstanding Alumni Contribution award in 1998.
Political Background
Over the years, Mr. Tharp has
been active in numerous state and federal campaigns for local, state and
federal races from judges and state representatives to United States
Congressmen. He has served various campaign roles from volunteer to
campaign coordinator.
In addition, Robert L. Tharp
was one of the founding members of a political consulting firm that
managed various state and local level campaigns. Not only did this firm
provide him with invaluable experience developing and executing
comprehensive campaign plans, issues and materials, it also taught him
lessons of how to run a business and the struggles that small businesses
must manage.
You can rely on Meriwether & Tharp to guide you through difficult
divorce and family law situations. To speak to a member of our team, you
can call our office or e-mail us to schedule an appointment to meet with
someone on our family law team.
Meriwether & Tharp, LLC
11475 Great Oaks Way
Suite 125
Alpharetta, Georgia 30022
P: 678-879-9000 / F: 678-879-9001
Intake@mtlawoffice.com
Our lawyers are dedicated to providing excellent
legal services for divorce, child support and child custody issues
in the Atlanta, Georgia area, including: Acworth, Alpharetta,
Austell, Avondale Estates, Ball Ground, Buford, Canton, Chamblee,
Cherokee, Cobb, Cumming, Dacula, Decatur, DeKalb, Doraville, Duluth,
Dunwoody, Forsyth, Fulton, Gainesville, Gwinnett, Hall, Johns Creek,
Kennesaw, Lawrenceville, Lilburn, Lithonia, Marietta, Milton,
Norcross, Powder Springs, Roswell, Sandy Springs, Smyrna,
Snellville, Stone Mountain, Suwanee, and Woodstock.
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