About Us

Attorney Ann Fitz focuses her practice exclusively on criminal defense and appellate work. Her interest in criminal law began when she served as a juror on a vehicular homicide case while in college. The experience left her with a unique third-person perspective that she successfully utilizes in assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a case, and in developing viable theories of defense.

Ms. Fitz has handled a number of high-profile cases, and her legal representation has been the subject of articles in the Fulton Daily Report, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Due to her expertise in the criminal law, Ms. Fitz is frequently called upon to appear as a guest legal commentator on national cable news networks to provide her insights and opinions on national high-profile cases.

Ms. Fitz began her legal career as a judicial intern for Judge A. Harris Adams (now on the Georgia Court of Appeals), and worked in the District Attorney's Office while in law school. Following graduation from law school, Ms. Fitz became an Assistant District Attorney for the State of Georgia, prosecuting felonies. Disheartened by the overzealousness of her colleagues and unfair treatment of defendants, Ms. Fitz decided to switch to criminal defense.

Ms. Fitz's federal criminal defense experience encompasses drug trafficking conspiracies, white collar crime (including mail fraud, wire fraud, mortgage fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud, bankruptcy fraud, money laundering, and embezzlement), antitrust violations, immigration issues, murder, and child pornography offenses. She has prepared motions and briefs in the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 10th, and 11th Circuits, as well as the United States Supreme Court. In addition, Ms. Fitz has successfully argued for sentencing mitigation on behalf of her clients in District Court, many times having defendants sentenced to house arrest rather than prison time.

On the state level, Ms. Fitz has represented clients charged with DUI, domestic violence, drug possession, and shoplifting, often times negotiating with the prosecutor for pre-trial diversion and expungement as an alternative to a guilty plea. She also challenged the constitutionality of a recent residency restriction law on behalf of non-violent sex offenders and has helped indigent defendants challenge their sentences and convictions in the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court.

Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, 1999, B.A.
English and Communications Double-Major

Mercer University, Walter F. George School of Law, Macon, Georgia, 2003, J.D.

Georgia, 2003
California, pending
U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, 2006
U.S. District Court Middle District of Georgia, 2007
U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 2006
United States Supreme Court, 2008

Corporate Crime: Trends in Liability in the Aftermath of Enron, Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 2007
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Corporate Crime, Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 2007

Who's Who Among American Law Students, 2000

State Bar of Georgia, Georgia Assn. Criminal Defense Lawyers,
National Assn. Criminal Defense Lawyers, Atlanta Bar Assn. Criminal Law Section, Federal Bar Assn.