Kevin A. Maxim is the principal of The Maxim Law Firm P.C. in Atlanta. He litigated in national law firms for fourteen years before forming The Maxim Law Firm in 2009. The firm’s litigation practice focuses on issues arising from contracts, real estate, the internet, fraud, insurance, and a gamut of business disputes, including those arising from restrictive covenants and trade secrets. Kevin has been a member of the FBA since June 2005. He currently serves as the FBA’s President-elect. He served as the FBA’s Treasurer 2024-2025, as General Counsel 2017-2018, and served on the Board of Directors 2013-2016 and again 2018-2021. He has chaired the FBA’s Budget & Finance Committee, the Annual Meeting Committee, the Constitution and Bylaws Committee, and the Hon. Sarah T. Hughes Award Committees, and has served on many other committees and task forces. He assisted in forming the FBA’s Southern District of Georgia Chapter, and is a Life Fellow of the FBA Foundation.
Kevin is proud of his Atlanta Chapter roots. The chapter hosted the FBA’s Annual Meeting & Convention in 2007 and 2017, and he chaired the 2017 Atlanta Convention Planning Committee and served alongside so many dedicated and resourceful Atlanta FBA leaders. Kevin served as the Atlanta Chapter president in 2009–2010 and has participated as a member of the Chapter’s advisory committee ever since.
Kevin served on the Board of Trustees of Atlanta’s Fernbank Museum of Natural History from 2008 to 2016 and continues as an honorary trustee there. Kevin has served on the Atlanta Bar Association’s Judicial Selection & Tenure Committee 2016-2018, and since 2012 as a volunteer practitioner participant in the semiannual Orientation to Professionalism Programs at the Emory University’s School of Law. Since 2009, he has also served on the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council. He has served as the Georgia editor of what is now called the ABA’s The Law of Class Action: Fifty-State Survey since its inception in 1999.
Kevin graduated with a degree in chemical engineering, summa cum laude, from the University of Cincinnati in 1991, and from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1994. He has been honored to be designated a Georgia Super Lawyer since 2010, as one of the Top 100 Georgia Super Lawyers since 2012, and as one of the Top 5 Business Litigation Attorneys in Georgia in 2026.