Southern Exposure: Education through film

David H. Pope is a 1974 graduate of the University of Florida (BA with High Honors; Phi Beta Kappa) and a 1977 graduate of the University of  North Carolina School of Law (JD). From January 1978 through December 2006, David practiced in Atlanta, Georgia in the firm of Carr, Tabb & Pope and its predecessor firms. Throughout his 29 year career as a private lawyer, David was in the forefront of environmental law in the south, handling cases under many of the federal environmental statutes and well as under state and common law.

David’s legal work has been acknowledged by his peers through an AV Rating in Martindale Hubble and inclusion in Best Lawyers In America and Georgia’s Super Lawyers. Following retirement from private practice at the end of 2006, David joined the Southern Environmental Law Center as Director of the Georgia/Alabama office in Atlanta. The Southern Environmental Law Center is a non-profit, public-interest law firm devoted to protecting the environment and special places in the South.