Admitted to practice in Georgia; Editorial Assistant, Yale University Press, 1967-68; associate, Alston, Miller & Gaines, Atlanta, 1971-73; attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Atlanta office, 1973-74; associate, Long & Aldridge, Atlanta, 1974-76; Adjunct Professor, Mary Baldwin College, 1983-84; law clerk to Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1984-85; Adjunct Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, 1985-88; Assistant Professor of Law, 1988-1993; Associate Professor of Law, 1993-98; Professor of Law, 1998-2014; Professor of Law Emerita, 2014-.