Gilbert Deitch

Gil Deitch is widely recognized as a leading advocate for the rights of crime victims and an expert on civil cases arising from rapes and other criminal assaults occurring on private and public property. For decades he has been known by lawyers and judges as a pioneering force in the field of premises liability and has handled more negligent security cases than any other attorney in the State of Georgia and throughout the Southeast. Gil Deitch has taught numerous seminars on premises liability for members of the American Association for Justice (formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America) and members of the State Bar of Georgia. He has published premises liability articles in TRIAL Magazine, Verdict Magazine, the Georgia State Bar Journal, Fulton County Daily Report, and Crime Victims’ Litigation Quarterly. Gil Deitch has appeared as a victims’ rights attorney on several television and radio shows such as NBC Nightly News, 20/20 (ABC), WSB-TV (Atlanta), WAGA-TV (Atlanta), Georgia Cable TV (Atlanta), WVEU-TV (Atlanta) and the Mike Malloy Show (Atlanta), WSB-Radio (Atlanta) and KSOL Radio (San Francisco). He has been featured in numerous magazine and newspaper articles including Atlanta Magazine, Business Atlanta, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Gil Deitch is a member of the Georgia and Tennessee Bar Associations. He belongs to the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. He received his law degree (J.D.) from the University of Tennessee in 1970 and his undergraduate degree (B.B.A.) from the University of Georgia in 1967. Slaton v. Paris Adult Theatre I, 231 Ga. 312, 201 S.E.2d 456 (1973)