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

W. Carter Bates III

  1. Position: Partner
  2. Phone: (478) 749-9906
  3. Phone 2: (478) 742-4280
  4. Fax: (478) 742-8720
  5. Email: cbates@jbpslaw.com
  6. VCard: Download
  7. 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

  1. University of Georgia (B.A., 1979)
  2. Mercer University (J.D., cum laude, 1982)
  3. New York University (LL.M. in Taxation, 1983). Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Delta Phi, Kappa Alpha Order
  4. Brainerd Currie Honor Society
  5. Mercer Law Review 1980-82 (Associate Editor: 1981-1982)

Admitted

  1. Georgia, 1982
  2. U.S. Tax Court

Professional Organizations/Activities

  1. SunTrust Bank, Middle Georgia, 1999-2003
  2. Covenant Care Services, 1995-2003 (Past-Chairman)
  3. First Presbyterian Day School, 1998-2002
  4. Macon Downtown Council, 1994-1998 (Chairman)
  5. Medcen Foundation, 1992-2000 (Chairman)
  6. Community Foundation of Central Georgia, 2002-2008 (Development Committee Chairman and Past Chairman of Professional Advisory Council)
  7. Central Georgia Senior Health (“Carlyle Place”), 1996-2008 (Chairman)
  8. Investment Committee, Central Georgia Health Systems, Inc. 1997 to present (Chairman)
  9. Audit Committee, Central Georgia Health Systems, Inc., 2007 to present
  10. State of Georgia, Board of Accountancy, Member 2005-2008
  11. Board of State Bank & Trust, Member, 2009-Present
  12. Ingleside Baptist Church, Board of Overseers, 2001-2004 and 2005-2008
  13. Atlanta Tax Forum, 1987-1990
  14. Macon Estate Planning Council, 1991 to present
  15. Atlanta Estate Planning Council, 2008 to present
  16. Macon Bar Association
  17. State Bar of Georgia, Fiduciary Law Section
  18. The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, 2007 to present (Estate and Gift Tax Committee, 2008 to present)
  19. Adjunct Professor at Walter F. George School Of Law, Mercer University, 2003 to Present

Practice Areas

  1. Taxation Law
  2. Business Law
  3. Tax-Exempt Organizations and Estate and Asset Protection Planning

Administrative/Legal Assistant Contact Information

  1. Name: Letitia Clark
  2. Title: Legal Assistant
  3. Phone: 478.749.9902
  4. Email: lclark@jbpslaw.com