Preston Haliburton. The Attorney. The Athlete. The Person.

The Haliburton Law Firm

     The Haliburton Law Firm is an aggressive law firm and is dedicated to the best possible outcome for all of its clients.  The mantra of the firm is, “Always fighting aggressively for the full recovery of all of our clients.”  The Haliburton Law Firm utilizes professionals in various fields (medical, law enforcement, etc.) to attain full recovery for accident victims or for those who have been wrongfully arrested.

     “Regardless of whether you have been seriously injured or accused of a DUI or other serious crimes, we are ready to fight to make you whole.” – Preston L. Haliburton, Esq.

What Others Say About Attorney Haliburtion…

     John Thomas, veteran legislative lobbyist, states:  “I have known Mr. Haliburton for years, and he is very competent, aggressive, and trustworthy…rare qualities to find these days.”

Internet CEO, Paul B., observes:  “In a time of need, I sought the legal counsel of Attorney Haliburton, and I am glad that I did!  He is aggressive!  He has stood with me and is continuing to fight for me to this day!  I highly recommend him!”

     Dr. John Trotter, Chairman/CEO of a teachers union, opines:  “I have known Preston for years, and I have called on his services for my family members and for the teachers whom our union represents.  He is creative, committed, and has a certain panache and flair in the courtroom.  I like to watch him work his legal charm.”

Short Background on Preston Haliburton

Preston Haliburton is a criminal and personal injury lawyer who also is recognized as a Constitutional law expert as well as an elections law expert.  Besides being an All State quarterback at Bremen High School, he was also a two-time Golden Gloves Boxing Champion in Georgia and was a Three Times First Team All American in collegiate boxing.  Boxer Haliburton is undefeated (14 and 0) in the professional ranks and looking forward to his world title bout.  This 2000 graduate of the University of Georgia earned his law degree from Georgia State University where he served as a Student Body Senator, was on the Search Committee for Law School Dean, and founded the Public Policy Committee at the law school.  He was the Senior Managing Editor of the student-managed MALUM Law Review and is the Founder/CEO of an internationally renowned company, Breathalyzer Equalizer.

More Extensive Background on Preston Haliburton

     Many words may describe Preston Haliburton – charismatic, leader, courageous, athlete, scholar, renaissance man, aggressive attorney, altruistic, handsome, among just a few – but the word that best encapsulates Preston Haliburton, the person, is caring.  Although Preston has been granted by his Creator an ability to shine on many levels, he chooses to never forget the needs of the poor, the distressed, the handicapped, the dispossessed, the isolated, the depressed, and the ostracized.  This is what makes Preston so attractive as a person…he truly lifts the spirits of those with whom he interacts, and he does not discriminate about those with whom he talks, shares a joke or an irony of life or even a blessing.  He has a heart.

 Preston Haliburton’s roots are in Hanging Dog Creek, North Carolina — in the heart of America’s Appalachian Mountains.  His paternal grandparents came to Atlanta, Georgia to work in the Fulton Bag & Seed Company in what is known as Cabbagetown.  Several generations of Haliburtons lived in Cabbagetown and worked for Fulton Bag & Seed Company.  His grandfather, Claude Lee (C. L.) Haliburton, became a well-known club fighter in his day.  Tough and irascible almost beyond description (like when he pulled a police officer out of his bathtub and beat him up because C. L. thought that the police officer had abused his police power by pulling him over in his car earlier in the evening), C. L. and his wife raised several children in Cabbagetown before finally making it out in the late 1960s.  Because C. L. Haliburton had become a master plumber (a skill he picked up in the U. S. Army in World War II), he was a well-known leader in the local plumber’s union.  C. L. moved his family to the West End area of Atlanta, and Richard Haliburton, Preston’s father, graduated from the old Joseph E. Brown High School in Atlanta.

CEO Preston Haliburton (L) and with co-founders of Breathalyzer Equalizer, Dr. Mac Moretz (C) and Ron Lloyd (R).

 Richard Haliburton, a tall and handsome young kid, was struck with the dreaded Polio in the 1950s and spent much time at Warm Springs, Georgia, trying to learn to cope with Polio.  Unable to play regular sports like football and basketball because of the Polio, Richard took up boxing, and he became quite a sensation as a fighter who had to drag one leg while fighting.  He could hold his own among any comers and established quite a reputation as a pugilist.  Because of his handicapping condition, the State of Georgia paid for his tuition to West Georgia College (now the University of West Georgia), and Richard Haliburton went on to have a very successful career running a State Hospital for the Handicapped.  (Richard has also appeared in two movies dealing with boxing.)  Richard worked with a young Evander Holyfield during his amateur days all the way through the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.  This is the now infamous Olympics where many strongly feel that Holyfield was robbed of a Gold Medal.  Hence, the name, Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield!  Not only was this Four Time World Champion under Richard Haliburton’s tutelage, but so was the late World Champion Vernon Forrest.

The Breathalyzer Equalizer product was launched with an explosion of media and is sold world-wide.

When Preston Lee Haliburton, Richard’s son, came along, he was immersed in a world of boxing.  Sometimes, a full size regulation ring would be set up in the Haliburton’s yard, and the fighters whom Richard was training would live at the Haliburton house.  Preston’s parents went through a divorce when he was five years old, the same year that he fought a bout in the old Omni Auditorium in Atlanta.  Yes, at just five years old, Preston made his public debut as a boxer!  However, it was at this same age that Preston fell off the stairs of the high-dive at the Carrollton Country Club and almost died.  He remained in coma for several weeks, and Richard faced the decision to either operate to relieve the swelling on Preston’s brain with the possibility that this operation could save Preston’s life but leave him with some brain damage or just hope and pray that the swelling would go down on its own.  Richard chose the latter option.  After weeks in coma, Preston finally woke up one morning and asked his grandmother for some McDonald’s Chicken Nuggets.  True story.  In fact, Preston’s case against the Carrollton Country Club is studied in law school to this day.

 Preston excelled in athletics of all types in Carroll County.  In the Eighth Grade, he was named Carroll County’s Middle School Athlete of the Year.  When it was time to choose a high school, Preston was being recruited in a football-mad area like college players are recruited today.  He and his father Richard finally decided that Preston’s chances to start as a freshman quarterback on the varsity and to take advantage of a private school-like education was Bremen High School in Haralson County.  Bremen City School System was located right next to the Carroll County line, and the Haliburtons rented an apartment in Bremen. Bremen was a powerhouse in Single A sports in Georgia and an academic oasis among public high schools.  (Of course it did not hurt that the longest serving Speaker of the House in the United States lived in Bremen, had a daughter who taught at Bremen High School, and was a Bremen Blue Devil through and through.  Mr. Thomas B. Murphy, this legendary Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, had inestimable influence on the young Preston, serving as his mentor and wise counselor.  Today, the late Speaker’s son, Judge Mike Murphy, still serves as a mentor to Attorney Preston Haliburton.)

At Bremen High School, young Preston excelled in sports and in academia.  After two or three games into his freshman year, Preston became the starting quarterback on the varsity – and even scored a varsity touchdown while still 14 years of age.  By his junior year, Preston was being recruited by Georgia, Georgia Tech, and North Carolina State, among other schools, as a quarterback prospect.  Initially Preston hurt his back by, of all things, trying to dunk a basketball in the eighth grade.  This nagging injury continued to plague him through the rest of his high school career.  His senior year, Preston was named All State quarterback, Second Team, behind a fellow by the name of Champ Bailey, an All American at UGA and a future NFL Hall of Famer.  Preston also was selected to play in the Georgia High School All Star Game in baseball where he played with UGA and NFL quarterback Quincy Carter.  Preston was elected Mr. Bremen High School by his fellow students.

Preston (L) enjoying a lighter moment with the ring girls at the boxing matches.

Preston was quite a hitter in baseball, and decided to sign a dual football and baseball scholarship to the University of West Georgia.  But, he re-injured his back, and  because of this re-injury, Preston has to redshirt in both football and baseball that year.  He felt the calling for the ministry and decided play baseball at Truett-McConnell, a Christian junior college (now four year college) in North Georgia.  He played baseball at this baseball powerhouse (several players sign professional contracts), having to learn to hit left-handed because of the back injury.  Preston hit over .300 while batting left-handed.  The next year, Preston transferred to the University of Georgia.  At UGA, Preston began to dwell on his ability to perform in sports due to his back injury.  Finally, he decided that he could go back to the sport of his youth, a sport where he had garnered Golden Gloves Championships as a youth.  He decided that he would return to the ring, his ring of redemption.  Preston had concluded that he could box left-handed.

Preston is 14 and 0 boxing professionally is looking forward to his fight for the World Continental Title Belt with the International Boxing Union (IBU) where he is ranked Number One Contender in the World.

 Preston actually kick-started UGA’s boxing program.  It no longer existed.  Other Southeastern Conference schools had boxing, but not UGA.  No problem.  Preston went to the UGA Administration and got its official imprimatur for a boxing program at UGA.  All Preston did was win the Southeastern Conference Championship two years in a row in his last two years of undergraduate school.  By the way, he was also named First Team All American two years straight while boxing for UGA.  Preston graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in Political Science, a field that he had been drawn to by his close association with politicians whom he personally knew and also by his association with his mother’s lobbying firm, The Preston Group.  To this day, Preston works with his mother, Julie Ann McConnell, in the capacity of General Counsel for her successful lobbying firm.

U. S. Congressman Jim Marshall was Preston’s law professor and boxing coach while Preston attended the Walter F. Georgia School of Law at Mercer University.  Photo by Politico.

 Preston’s next adventure involved law school.  Initially, Preston planned to attend Ole Miss Law School and even attended its orientation.  But, thinking of the importance of his Georgia connections, Preston decided to enroll in the venerable Mercer University Law School in Macon, Georgia.  Griffin Bell, the Lion of Lawyers in Georgia and former U. S. Attorney General in the Jimmy Carter Administration, attended Mercer University Law School which has the oldest law review in Georgia.  In the Fall of his first year, Preston was elected overwhelmingly to be a Representative to the Student Bar Association.  Preston still had one year of collegiate boxing eligibility left, and, like at UGA, he went to the Mercer Administration seeking to establish the Mercer Boxing Team.  Jim Marshall, a professor on the law school faculty and later a four-term U. S. Congressman, agreed to be the official coach for the Mercer Boxing Team.  Preston was warming up for the Olympic Trials and had an excellent shot at making the U. S. Olympic Boxing Team.  At the Downtown Athletic Club in New York City, Preston knocked down twice the National Champion from the U. S. Naval Academy, but like Holyfield in the 1988 Olympics, he was apparently “robbed” of a decision.  Later, at the Olympic Trials, Preston handedly won a couple of fights against representatives of other states and appeared to be on his way to making the prestigious U. S. Boxing Team for the Summer Olympics but his bicep muscle was totally torn from the elbow.  He returned to law school the next week, after having undergone major reconstruction surgery of his bicep muscle.  It had to be re-attached to the elbow.  Preston had to complete his first year of law school while typing with only his left hand.  The right arm was the injured arm.  Understandably, Preston’s friends and fellow students tried to help him as much as possible, but law school is a dog-eat-dog world, and Preston had to survive for several months with one arm.  Out of respect and admiration, Preston’s fellow students again elected Preston overwhelmingly to represent them on the Student Bar Association for the up-coming school year.  This time, he was elected Vice President, almost unheard of for a student still in his first year of law school.

Preston knows most the of the well-known characters in the boxing world because he grew up around it.  His father had worked with Evander Holyfield as an amateur all the way up to his days as an Olympian.  Here is Preston with Iron Mike Tyson.

Meantime, Preston was granted a medical red-shirt for the 2001-2001 year.  Preston’s arm was recuperating, and he continued to put in many hours in the boxing gym.  He was being pulled by his boxing associations to go back to Atlanta and train.  So, Preston transferred to the Georgia State University College of Law.  At GSU College of Law, he could take some of his law classes at night.  Preston was immediately elected by his fellow students as a Student Senator.  He was also selected to be on the Dean Search Committee.  He organized a Legislative Symposium for the Law School and had many elected officials to come speak to the law students.  With a very hectic schedule, Preston managed to earn First Team All American Honors for the third time in collegiate boxing and still completed law school right on time.

Upon graduating from law school, Preston toyed with the some T. V. reality shows, principally The Contender and Next Great Fighter as well as The Bachelor and Joe Millionaire.  Contract talks ensured but Preston decided to immediately establish The Haliburton Law Firm.  Preston focused on Criminal Law, D. U. I. Law, and major injuries and wrongful deaths, although he has worked in the areas of Election Law and Education Law.  Mr. Haliburton has been known to pull out some wily and little known case law and legal concepts to win cases when dealing with issues of law before judges or in appellate endeavors such as his “pre-existing duty rule.”

 Mr. Haliburton is still an active supporter of Bremen High School athletics.  He is active in The Gridiron Society of which he was tapped as a member while still a student at the University of Georgia.  Mr. Haliburton is known as a man of many friends because he has never met a stranger, from the CEO of the company to the custodian who cleans the buildings.  He is the founder and CEO of Breathalyzer Equalizer, Inc., and was the Senior Managing Editor of The MALUM Law Review, an “underground” but upbeat and fun law review while he was in law school.

 Mr. Haliburton currently has fourteen (14) wins and zero (0) losses and nine (9) knockouts in the professional boxing ranks.  It is more and more difficult for Mr. Haliburton to secure opponents to box as he is positioning himself for a world title fight.  Meantime, he trains each day and often engages boxing commentary in the United States and abroad.  His story has been featured in a number of publications, including The New York Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  Mr. Haliburton, who serves as President of the American Association of Aggressive Attorneys (AAAA), was featured this past year in Jezebel Magazine as one of Atlanta’s “most beautiful people.”  Concerning this annual prestigious accolade, Mr. Haliburton stated, “They must have run out of people to feature.”

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