Jeffrey A. Jackson
Jeffrey A. Jackson is an attorney in the Atlanta area whose work centers on estate planning, probate and business matters. He is currently with Lerman Law Associates, P.C., a general practice firm serving clients across North Georgia in business and corporate law, real estate, and wills and trusts.
Jeffrey works with families, executors and small business owners at moments that tend to be either stressful or easy to put off. On the planning side, that means wills, trusts, powers of attorney and advance directives drafted to fit a client’s actual family and finances rather than a template. On the probate side, it means guiding executors and administrators through the Georgia probate courts, from opening the estate to the final distribution, and handling the paperwork, deadlines and creditor issues that catch most people off guard. For business owners, he helps with entity formation, operating and shareholder agreements, contracts and the succession questions that eventually land on every closely held company.
His approach is practical. Clients get plain-language explanations of their options, a clear sense of what things will cost and how long they will take, and an attorney who returns calls. He believes most legal problems in these areas are cheaper to prevent than to fix, and he spends a lot of his time helping clients do exactly that.
Education and admissions
Jeffrey earned his Juris Doctor from Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law in Macon and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Georgia in Athens, graduating in 2014. He was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 2018.
Background
Jeffrey grew up in Milton, Georgia, where his family runs Painted Horse Winery & Vineyards on the Farm at Pamelot, a working horse farm that has been in the family since the early 1990s. The winery opened in 2019 as the first farm winery in the history of Fulton County and Milton’s founding winery, and has since added a tasting room in downtown Alpharetta. Growing up around a family-run farm and small business is a big part of why Jeffrey gravitated toward estate and business work: he has seen firsthand how much planning it takes to keep something like that intact across generations.
Outside the office, Jeffrey is a University of Georgia alumnus and a lifelong Georgia resident who spends as much time as he can back on the farm.