Judge J. Jessy Lall

Bio

Judge Jaslovelin ‘Jessy’ Lall currently serves as a Judge with the State and   Superior (Family Division) courts of Fulton County, Georgia. She previously served as a Judge with the Fulton Magistrate and Administrative Law courts for almost 17 years. It is noteworthy that Jessy is Georgia’s First Indian female judge of South Asian descent appointed to the Georgia judiciary.

As a Judge in the Fulton County high volume courts, Jessy has tried numerous  civil and criminal cases since 2007. She presides over a variety of civil cases including Personal/Property Injuries, Premises Liability, contract  disputes arising from  Construction, Employment, Labor, Professional Malpractice, Landlord/Tenant as well as Garnishment matters. In addition Jessy covers cases involving Divorce, Family/Domestic Violence, Legitimation, and Custody modification issues. On the criminal side, Judge Lall does cover misdemeanor and felony cases, inmates bond and suppression hearings and issued thousands of arrest/search warrants. She trains incoming judges and has served as a training mentor to new magistrates.

Jessy was previously a civil trial attorney (plaintiff’s and defense) working on Personal Injury, Debt Collection, Premises Liability, Malpractice, Trucking litigation, Contract Disputes, Real Estate cases as well as some Corporate governance matters. She later managed her own solo practice where she tried all manner of cases from traffic, misdemeanors to real estate transactions and domestic cases.

She now also serves as a mediator and arbitrator with BAY.  She brings a wealth of judicial and litigation knowledge and experiences to facilitate a successful resolution prior to trial.

As a Judge and attorney, Jessy has a proven track record to positively advise, mentor and guide litigants, attorneys and judges with a grounded and realistic approach. She engages with the parties in a meaningful and respectful way, identifies the issues and facilitates the discussion to a mutually acceptable outcome.

She served on the Executive Board of the Georgia Council of Magistrate Court Judges, as well as the Council’s committees for Mentorship, Judges’ curriculum and Benchbook, as well as a faculty teacher for judicial seminars. She was on the Board for the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association (GAPABA) and past President of the North Fulton Bar Association. She is also an active member of the Stonewall Bar Association and the South Asian Bar Association (SABA). Since 1996, Jessy has participated as a judge for the Georgia State Bar’s Mock Trial Competitions as well as served as a panel speaker for a number of nonprofit organizations. Jessy obtained her Juris Doctorate degree in 1994 from Georgia State University College of Law after she graduated with her B.S. and M.B.A. from Wright State University in Ohio.

She grew up in Singapore, attending the Methodist Girls School and the Anglo Chinese Junior College, where she excelled in her General Cambridge ‘A” and “O” Examinations. Jessy is married to corporate executive Sanjay Lall, and they have a son and daughter. Proudly addicted  to NPR and BritBox but also enjoys high action movies, live  theater, musicals  and mystery novels. Favorite movie/books -: To Kill a Mockingbird;  everything done by Jane Austen, Agatha Christie and director Wes Anderson. Would love to travel more and catch up with multiple shows and half-read novels.  Have a love/hate relationship with her gym and Pilates (torture) machine. Favorite cities: Positano and Bali. Bucket list: Egypt, Africa and base camp Everest.