Adwoa Ghartey-Tagoe Seymour
Associate, Bryan Cave LLP
Adwoa Ghartey-Tagoe Seymour is an associate at Bryan Cave LLP practicing in the areas of commercial litigation and product liability law. She represents companies and manufacturers in products liability litigation and business tort and contract disputes. Adwoa is also a registered neutral with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution, and she uses her alternative dispute resolution and litigation skills to represent companies both in state and federal courts and in mediation and arbitration. For example, Adwoa has: • Successfully represented two corporate defendants in premises liability action pending in Superior Court, which successfully ended in dismissal; • Successfully represented a healthcare company in federal litigation involving COBRA claims and ERISA fiduciary disputes, which resulted in a complete dismissal on summary judgment; • Successfully represented banking client on motion to dismiss or compel arbitration in the Superior Court of Fulton County, resulting in a complete dismissal of credit card consumer's claim for invasion of privacy; and • Successfully represented a banking client in arbitration pending before the National Arbitration Forum in a breach of contract dispute, resulting in an award in favor of her client. In addition to her litigation-related work, Adwoa has co-authored two legal publications: "Tainted Imports Require Refresher On CPSC Reporting Requirements; Companies Must Report a Product if a Defect Constitutes a Substantial Product Hazard," Industry Week, August 2007, and "USDA Arbitrarily Deregulates Genetically Modified Alfafa: The Future of Agricultural Biotechnology Starts Here," The Agriculturalist Lawyer, Vol. 3, Issue 2, September 2007. Adwoa is also a 2010 A. Leon Higginbotham Fellow of the American Arbitration Association. Beyond her work at Bryan Cave, Adwoa has demonstrated her strong passion for child advocacy by representing children, pro bono, in truancy proceedings in Fulton County Juvenile Court through the Truancy Intervention Project ("TIP") and by serving on the organization's Board. TIP largely serves African-American children in the Atlanta area. Adwoa also is a former board member of the Georgia Afterschool Investment Council, an organization dedicated to ensuring Georgia's youth have access to high-quality, affordable after school and summer learning opportunities. Further, Adwoa has taken on leadership roles in the legal community. Adwoa has been an active member of the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys ("GABWA") for a number of years. A voluntary bar association with nearly 600 financial members, GABWA's mission is to nurture, support, and galvanize the power of black women attorneys, advocate for women and children, and empower the African-American community. This year, Adwoa is serving as GABWA's Vice President. Adwoa also serves on the Board of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. Additionally, Adwoa serves in a leadership capacity over her church's youth ministry. Specifically, she has worked in youth ministry for the past eight years at New Beginning Gospel Tabernacle located in Griffin, Georgia. Griffin is about an hour south of Atlanta, which requires Adwoa and her family to drive about one hour each way, every Sunday to worship there. In that time, Adwoa has continuously worked with the African-American youth in that community, both members and non-members, to provide counseling, legal information, advocacy with school issues, and education and career counseling. Further, after the death of Bobby Tillman, a local youth who was beaten to death at a house party by four random teens and for no reason, Adwoa was led to restructure the youth Sunday school classes at her church. She and her husband now co-teach the classes for teens. In those classes, Adwoa and her husband tackle recent media headlines and contemporary issues facing African-American youth (e.g., bullying, racism, teen domestic violence, etc.), using biblical principles to equip the youth to successfully face the difficult situations of today. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Adwoa obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Adwoa went on to graduate cum laude from Georgia State University College of Law. While in law school, Adwoa received the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers Outstanding Law Graduate Award, honors in the second year litigation practicum, and the Best Overall Advocate Award in the Moot Court Board Appellate Advocacy competition. In addition, Adwoa interned with the Honorable A. Harris Adams of the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Honorable Penny Brown Reynolds of Fulton County State Court. Adwoa is currently licensed to practice law in Georgia and has been admitted to practice in various state and federal courts in Georgia. Adwoa has demonstrated a steadfast commitment to the legal profession and to her community. Remarkably, she skillfully balances these commitments with her responsibilities of being a wife and a mother. She is married to Elder Stanley A. Seymour, Esq. They are the proud parents of two children, Aba and Xavier.
