Jody D. Peterman, LLC offers personal injury and criminal defense representation. The firm’s office is in Valdosta, and it serves clients statewide in Georgia. For an individual matter, counsel can assess the circumstances and available records.
Prepare for a conversation about your matter
- Gather notices, letters, and other documents related to the matter.
- Write down key dates and events as you understand them.
- For a court-related question, note the contact and location stated on your notice.
- Direct Municipal Court questions to the Court Clerk identified on the court page.
- For a City of Gray records request, refer to the city’s published open-records form.
- Keep court-office and city-records contact details distinct.
- Make a list of questions about how the available records relate to your situation.
Personal injury and criminal defense
The firm describes its personal-injury practice as representation for people seriously injured because of another party’s negligence. For an injury connected to Gray, organize the records already in your possession about the incident and its effects. Keep your own account separate from documents supplied by another person or office.
For criminal defense, the firm describes representation for clients facing serious felony charges in Georgia. Retain papers identifying your matter and the exact court or agency name on each item. Keep related communications as received, with your own timeline and questions about particular documents on separate pages.
Official resources: Firm legal services
Court office and separately identified session location
Gray’s Municipal Court office is at the Police Department, 151 James Street, Gray, GA 31032, telephone 478-986-5431. Its separate mailing address is PO Box 443, Gray, GA 31032. Preserve the office and mailing labels with those contact entries.
The court page identifies the D.V. Childs Civic Center next to City Hall at 109 James Street as the court-session location and directs questions to the Court Clerk. Keep the location stated on your own notice with that court label and your questions for the Clerk. Retain any related correspondence beside the particular notice it concerns.
Official resources: Gray Municipal Court
City records form and city contact
The City of Gray publishes an open-records request form and lists its city contact at 109 James Street, Gray, GA 31032, telephone 478-986-5433. Keep the city-records resource and general city contact labels beside those details in your notes.
For an existing municipal record, retain its title, date and issuing office where shown. Keep a particular inquiry and any response with the document description that prompted it. Preserve the separate court-office number and mailing entry alongside the city-records contact notes, with each office name identifiable.
Official resources: Gray city records requests; Gray Municipal Court
Introduce the matter in a first conversation
The firm describes the first conversation as a way to understand the general nature of a matter and identify appropriate next steps. Start with the injury or criminal-defense concern. For a court-labelled paper, retain the location on your notice with notes distinguishing the Police Department court office and mailing box from the civic-center session location; keep any city-record inquiry separately identified.
Bring your timeline, existing-document list and questions together. For an injury matter, group incident-related materials with records about its effects. For criminal defense, retain papers identifying the matter and related communications. Your Gray court or city-record notes can stay beside the particular paper or inquiry behind a concern while you explain the broader matter.
Official resources: Firm legal services; Gray Municipal Court; Gray city records requests
Questions about Gray
What court office and session locations does Gray identify separately?
The court office is at the Police Department, 151 James Street, Gray, GA 31032, telephone 478-986-5431, with separate mailing address PO Box 443. The court page identifies D.V. Childs Civic Center next to City Hall at 109 James Street as the session location and directs questions to the Court Clerk.
What city-records resource and contact are published?
The city publishes an open-records request form and lists 109 James Street, Gray, GA 31032, telephone 478-986-5433, as its city contact.
General information about legal services and local resources. A lawyer must review the facts and applicable law for your matter. Contacting the firm does not by itself create an attorney-client relationship.