Profile
Kristin Duke is an accomplished litigator with wide-ranging experience representing public and private companies in high-stakes commercial litigation and business disputes. She is well-versed in financial services litigation, employment matters, and construction-related disputes, offering clients strategic counsel and zealous advocacy across a broad array of industries.
Kristin’s practice spans from pre-litigation negotiations to final resolution, including jury trials and arbitration hearings. She is adept at managing large-scale e-discovery matters ensuring the efficient and effective handling of complex electronic data for her clients. With a proven track record in both state and federal courts, Kristin brings a deep understanding of intricate legal challenges and delivers tailored solutions to meet her clients’ needs.
Before joining the firm, Kristin honed her skills defending clients in cases involving product liability, premises liability, transportation disputes, medical malpractice, catastrophic injury, and matters related to nursing homes and long-term care. This diverse background equips her with a unique perspective and a proactive approach to solving her clients’ legal matters with creativity, precision, and an unwavering commitment to achieving successful outcomes.
Concentrations
- Commercial litigation
- Contract disputes and business torts
- Construction litigation
Capabilities
Experience
- Represented tenant to address rent, premises and conditions issues.
- Representing a non-profit that offers counseling services to students and families in finalizing their employment and client forms, policies and agreements.
- Obtained a seven-figure settlement for a general contractor in a construction dispute who was wrongfully terminated from a project by the owner.
- Obtained a dismissal of all claims against a company in a construction dispute who was sued for wrongful termination by the former general contractor on a project.
- Second chaired at an 8-day final hearing where the firm represented a municipality/project owner against a general contractor in a construction dispute involving claims of project delay and design error.
- Briefed, argued, and won 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss on behalf of a banking client facing breach of fiduciary duty claims.
- Obtained a voluntary dismissal of claims in an arbitration brought by a customer against a banking client related to tradeline reporting to the credit reporting bureaus.
- Defended a school system from Title IX (20 U.S.C. § 1681(a)) claims and claims of violation of Substantive Due Process, violation of Equal Protection, general negligence, gross negligence, negligent hiring, negligent supervision, negligent retention, negligent undertaking, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and punitive damages in connection with an alleged harassment by a teacher of a student.
- Briefed and won 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss on behalf of two school system employees that were individually named in above-mentioned lawsuit.
- Obtained a voluntary dismissal for a start-up company being sued by a former founder who brought claims of breach of the stockholder’s agreement.
- Briefed and secured denial of a motion for summary judgment on behalf of the Trustee in a high-dollar bankruptcy adversary action.
- Obtained a settlement for a client in a dispute over whether unpaid invoices were for work authorized or requested by the client.
- Obtained a settlement for a company in a dispute with a former employee involving claims of unpaid commissions.
- Attended an early mediation and obtained a settlement for the buyer of nursing homes against the former owner in a litigation involving claims of breach of contract and fraud.
- Briefed and obtained affirmance of summary judgment in a premises liability case involving a slip and fall in a restaurant parking lot.°
- Briefed and obtained affirmance of summary judgment in a premises liability case on behalf of an apartment complex owner and management company.°
- Obtained summary judgment in several premises liability cases, involving slip and falls and negligent security.°
- Obtained a defense verdict on behalf of a retail store in a negligence case involving a deer ladder stand in the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division before Judge Story.°
- Obtained settlement at mediation of a clear liability trucking accident.°
- Defended a trucking company against a motion for sanctions for spoliation of evidence.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Duke prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
- Law Clerk, Hon. Wendy Shoob, Fulton County Superior Court, 2015
Recognition & Leadership
- Team Member, "Georgia Firm of the Year," Benchmark Litigation, 2025
- Team Member, The American Lawyer’s “Regional Litigation Department of the Year - Georgia,” 2021
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Georgia Super Lawyers, "Rising Stars," 2020-2021, 2023-2025
- Member, State Bar of Georgia, 2015-Present
- Georgia Defense Lawyers Association, 2019-Present
- Volunteer, AVLF Saturday Lawyer Program
Credentials
- J.D., cum laude, Georgia State University College of Law
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B.A., Georgia Southern University
- Phi Alpha Delta
- Georgia
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia