Rate My Professor Lance McMillian

Lance McMillian serves as Associate Professor at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, joining the faculty in 2007. He holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from the University of Georgia, earned summa cum laude and as a member of the Order of the Coif. Before entering academia, McMillian practiced law for over a decade as a civil litigator, commercial arbitrator, and certified mediator. His practice focused on complex litigation, including class action prosecution and defense, business torts, constitutional torts, and discrimination cases. In 2002, he became a founding partner of McMillian & Camp, LLP, approved as lead counsel in federal and state courts for class and collective actions under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act, securing six- and seven-figure settlements. He argued cases before the Georgia Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, tried numerous cases to verdict, and participated in alternative dispute resolution as both neutral and advocate, mediating and arbitrating over 100 active lawsuits and serving on national arbitration panels. In 2017, he was part of a team that obtained a million-dollar award in a commercial arbitration before the American Arbitration Association.

At the law school, he teaches Torts, Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Constitutional Law Seminar, First Amendment Seminar, White Collar Crime, Domestic Relations, Depositions, Law Office Management, Remedies in Context, and Scholarly Writing. McMillian's research interests encompass legal writing and scholarship, tort law, property rights and human identity in media portrayals, antitrust issues in health care, and cinematic visions of law and lawyers. His scholarly articles have appeared in journals such as the North Carolina Law Review, Washington and Lee Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Tennessee Law Review, and Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal. Notable publications include "Story is Scholarship" in the Charleston Law Review (2024), "Adultery as Tort" in the North Carolina Law Review (2012), "The World of Deadwood: Property Rights and the Search for Human Identity" in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal (2011, with Michael B. Kent Jr.), "The Death of Law: A Cinematic Vision" in the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review (2009), and "The Proper Role of Courts: The Mistakes of the Supreme Court in Leegin" in the Wisconsin Law Review (2008). His work has been cited in federal and state court decisions, including by Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Thorogood v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. He has also contributed chapters to edited volumes on law in television and property in media.