MACON
231 Riverside Drive
Macon, Georgia 31201
TEL 478.742.4280
FAX 478.742.8720
ATLANTA
3399 Peachtree Road NE
Suite 810
Atlanta, Georgia 30326
TEL 404.997.6020
FAX 404.997.6021

W. Carter Bates III
- Position: Partner
- Phone: (478) 749-9906
- Phone 2: (478) 742-4280
- Fax: (478) 742-8720
- Email: cbates@jbpslaw.com
- VCard: Download
- Location: Macon
Biography
Carter Bates has successfully represented clients in the areas of taxation law, business law, tax-exempt organizations and estate and asset protection planning.
Carter and his wife, Thayer, and their daughters, Kenson and Cissy, are very active in the Macon community. Their main focus is on ministries through Ingleside Baptist Church. For the last 7 years, Carter has helped organize and led church planting mission trips to Peru involving many Ingleside members and friends.
Education
- University of Georgia (B.A., 1979)
- Mercer University (J.D., cum laude, 1982)
- New York University (LL.M. in Taxation, 1983). Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Delta Phi, Kappa Alpha Order
- Brainerd Currie Honor Society
- Mercer Law Review 1980-82 (Associate Editor: 1981-1982)
Admitted
- Georgia, 1982
- U.S. Tax Court
Professional Organizations/Activities
- SunTrust Bank, Middle Georgia, 1999-2003
- Covenant Care Services, 1995-2003 (Past-Chairman)
- First Presbyterian Day School, 1998-2002
- Macon Downtown Council, 1994-1998 (Chairman)
- Medcen Foundation, 1992-2000 (Chairman)
- Community Foundation of Central Georgia, 2002-2008 (Development Committee Chairman and Past Chairman of Professional Advisory Council)
- Central Georgia Senior Health (“Carlyle Place”), 1996-2008 (Chairman)
- Investment Committee, Central Georgia Health Systems, Inc. 1997 to present (Chairman)
- Audit Committee, Central Georgia Health Systems, Inc., 2007 to present
- State of Georgia, Board of Accountancy, Member 2005-2008
- Board of State Bank & Trust, Member, 2009-Present
- Ingleside Baptist Church, Board of Overseers, 2001-2004 and 2005-2008
- Atlanta Tax Forum, 1987-1990
- Macon Estate Planning Council, 1991 to present
- Atlanta Estate Planning Council, 2008 to present
- Macon Bar Association
- State Bar of Georgia, Fiduciary Law Section
- The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, 2007 to present (Estate and Gift Tax Committee, 2008 to present)
- Adjunct Professor at Walter F. George School Of Law, Mercer University, 2003 to Present
Practice Areas
- Taxation Law
- Business Law
- Tax-Exempt Organizations and Estate and Asset Protection Planning
Administrative/Legal Assistant Contact Information
- Name: Letitia Clark
- Title: Legal Assistant
- Phone: 478.749.9902
- Email: lclark@jbpslaw.com