Akin & Tate | Cartersville Personal Injury Lawyers | Georgia Trial Attorneys | GA Bartow County Accident Law Firm

Warren Akin I began practicing law in 1836, later establishing the law offices in Cartersville where Akin & Tate still serves Georgians today. The elder Akin argued the first case before the Georgia Supreme Court in 1848. He was an ordained Methodist minister and a Trustee of Emory College. From 1861 to 1863, he served as Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives and as Confederate Congressman from 1864 to the end of the Civil War.

His grandson, the late Warren Akin, and great-grandson Wm. Morgan Akin together with S. Lester Tate, III, who previously practiced as a sole practitioner, formed Akin & Tate, P.C. in 1996. Peggy Akin St. Philip, Warren Akin I's great-great granddaughter and Morgan's daughter, joined the firm in 2007, becoming the fifth generation of Akins to practice law in Cartersville. Tyler M. Love recently joined the firm after graduating from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2009.

Today, the firm's attorneys counsel clients from the same building where Warren Akin I moved his practice after the Civil War.

Beginning with Warren Akin I almost 175 years ago, five generations of Akins have practiced law in Cartersville. When each new Akin lawyer is admitted to the Bar, he or she has signed the inside cover of this historic book, “Reports Cases in Law and Equity Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia in the year 1846.”