
Civil Rights cases under 42 U.S.C. ยง 1983 and state law
General Litigation
Personal Injury
- Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- J.D. – 2016
- Emory University
- B.A. – 2009
- Major: Comparative Literature
- Major: Latin American Studies
- Liberty & Justice in Georgia: Protecting Our Heritage & Growing Our Competitive Future
- Confronting Criminal Justice Debt: A Guide for Policy Reform
- โWrongfulโ Prosecutions and Obtaining Compensation for Unlawful Detention, Verdict Magazine
- Itโs Easier to Convict Officers of Murder Than for Victimโs Family to Win Damages, Daily Report, June 2020
- The Honorable, Judge Allison Burroughs, United States District Court, District Of Massachusetts, Legal Intern
- Harvard Criminal Justice Institute, Public Defense Clinical Program, Student Attorney
- Harvard Criminal Justice Policy Program, Criminal Justice Fellow
- Southern Center For Human Rights, Atlanta, Georgia, Summer Intern
- Law Offices Of Howard Friedman, PC, Boston, Massachusetts, Legal Intern
- Harvard Capital Punishment Clinic, Georgia Appellate Resource Center, Atlanta, Georgia, Clinical Intern and Extern
- Loevy & Loevy, Chicago, Illinois, Summer Intern
- Mitchell & Shapiro, LLP, Atlanta, Georgia, Legal Intern
- Teach For America, Atlanta Public Schools, Atlanta, Georgia, Teacher, Soccer Coach
- National Police Accountability Project of the National Lawyers Guild
- American Association for Justice
- Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
Zack Greenamyre
Partner
Zack Greenamyre leads the firmโs civil rights practice aimed at obtaining justice for those who have had their constitutional rights violated by government misconduct, in addition to his work obtaining justice for victims of catastrophic injuries and resolving business disputes.
At trial, Mr. Greenamyre has obtained million-dollar verdicts for his clients. In federal court, he helped achieve what has been recognized as theย largest malicious prosecution verdict in Georgiaโs historyย in a police misconduct trial that garneredย national attention. And in state court, he was a part of team that won a hard-foughtย medical malpractice verdict that was one of the largest for the year. In another civil rights case, Mr. Greenamyre obtained a record $5,000,000 result, which is the highest the State of Georgia has paid to any individual in any case.
Representative civil rights cases include First Amendment challenges to unlawful government silencing of free speech, likeย this suitย representing visual artists against government censorship, andย these actionsย challenging a cityโs attempt to banish people who speak at city council meetings. Mr. Greenamyre also regularly represents victims of police abuse, including people who have beenย falsely arrestedย or imprisoned and who have experienced serious excessive and illegal force, obtaining significant compensation for his clients in difficult cases.
Mr. Greenamyre pushes for systemic reform. He litigatedย a series of federal lawsuits alleging pattern of wrongful arrests and retaliation against activists. These cases resulted in the recovery of more than $1 million for his clients who had been wrongfully arrested and prosecuted. This litigation, and the tenacity of his clients, led to 100% turnover of police officers within a small department. Recognized by his peers as one of the best young attorneys in the state, Mr. Greenamyre was selected as a โTop 40 Under 40โ trial attorney, and as a lawyer โSuper Lawyer Rising Starโ by the Daily Report.
Because all successful outcomes are ultimately team efforts, Mr. Greenamyre routinely works as co-counsel with the best civil rights and trial attorneys in the state, and with national firms and organizations.
Mr. Greenamyre is a graduate of Harvard Law School where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. While a student, he earned academic prizes for excellence in courses like Torts and Federal Courts. In internships, he worked and learned with excellent attorneys while representing clients with civil rights law organizations in Chicago, Boston, and Atlanta. Prior to attending law school, he taught high school English with the Atlanta Public Schools through Teach for America and was an intern at Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP.