Founding Partner
Lee Tucker is a founding partner of Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP. He maintains a broad-based legal practice, currently focusing on matters in the areas of real estate, corporate law, banking and finance, civil litigation and land use. Mr. Tucker serves as "general counsel" for many of his clients.
Mr. Tucker is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the North Fulton Bar Association, the Gwinnett County Bar Association, the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association. He has been identified as a member of the Georgia Trend "Legal Elite" and as an Atlanta Magazine "Super Lawyer." Mr. Tucker is a graduate of Leadership Georgia, Regional Leadership Institute, Leadership North Fulton and Leadership Gwinnett. He is active in several community organizations in the north metropolitan Atlanta region. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Gwinnett College Foundation, the 1818 Club, the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce, the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce, Neighborhood Cooperative Ministries and the Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia. Mr. Tucker previously served on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Student Finance Commission and the Gwinnett Technical College Foundation.
Prior to founding MPT, Mr. Tucker spent time as an associate with King & Spalding, LLP, an international law firm, where he specialized in private equity transactions, corporate finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, general corporate and securities matters. Prior to joining King & Spalding, Mr. Tucker served as an assistant to then-Governor Zell Miller in the Office of the Governor, State of Georgia.
Mr. Tucker received his J.D., cum laude, from the Georgia State University College of Law, where he was a member of the Georgia State University Law Review. While in law school, Mr. Tucker served as an intern to The Honorable P. Harris Hines, Justice, Supreme Court of the State of Georgia. Mr. Tucker earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Georgia.
Areas Of Practice
- Corporate Transactional
- Commercial Real Estate
- Land Use & Zoning
- Banking & Finance
Bar Admissions
- Georgia, 1999
Education
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Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, Georgia
- J.D.
- Honors: cum laude
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University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
- A.B.
- Major: History
Professional Associations and Memberships
- The 1818 Club, Board Member and past President (2016-2020)
- Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce, Executive Committee
- Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce, Executive Committee
- State Bar of Georgia, Member
- Gwinnett Bar Association, Member
- Greater North Fulton Bar Association, Member
Recommendations
- “The attorneys at MPT understand my business. I am comfortable calling on them for advice and don't have to worry about being “nickel-and-dimed” for fees. I view MPT as a partner with my business rather than as a service provider.”
- “The attorneys at MPT counsel me with practical legal advice based on their understanding of my business. As a client, I appreciate that they have made the effort to invest their time in learning about my business in a holistic way so that our attorney-client relationship can be a partnership bas...
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Brandon Beach, State Senator and CEO, Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce:
“MPT is a great law firm. In addition to their skill as attorneys, they are supportive of the business community and invest their time, talent and money in helping make our market a great place to do business.”