Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial is pleased to announce the addition of Brooklyn Sawyers Belk as Of Counsel in the firm’s Atlanta office.  

Sawyers Belk is a seasoned litigator and trial attorney having tried nine federal trials to verdict. She has extensive experience with labor and employment and criminal law including litigating in federal administrative, district and appellate courts. Sawyers Belk has a particular interest in employment, health care, criminal and family law.  

“With more than a decade of litigation experience, Brooklyn’s addition is a tremendous asset to the firm and our clients,” said David Dial, the managing partner of Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial. “Brooklyn has a solid track record of success and a deep understanding of the law. Her ability to collaborate with peers and close cases further expands the capabilities of our award-winning litigation firm and will allow her to immediately meet our clients’ needs.”  

Previously, Sawyers Belk served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee, where she led their inclusion and diversity, human trafficking and community outreach initiatives. During her years as a public servant, Sawyers Belk worked for the Department of Justice as a trial attorney, distinguishing herself as a wiretap expert.  She also served as a litigator in the Middle Districts of Tennessee and Florida. Sawyers Belk is well-versed in the gamut of employment, labor, retirement, disability and other social security-related law from her years of service at the Social Security Administration.  

Outside of court, Sawyers Belk wrote, implemented and gave more than 50 local, regional and national trainings on topics ranging from implicit bias to fraud and white-collar crime to social justice. She is in high-demand as a national lecturer, having served as the keynote speaker for various organizations. Sawyers Belk has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law, where she led trial practice, interviewing and counseling and was honored as adjunct professor of the year. She has also taught undergraduate and pre-law courses at other institutions.

In November 2015, Sawyers Belk was admitted to the United States Supreme Court Bar. She is also admitted to practice by the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals where she has had several successful oral arguments and briefed various cases that she litigated from beginning to end. Additionally, Sawyers Belk served the National Black Prosecutors Association, an organization committed to diversity and inclusion at all levels of prosecution, as the regional director, social justice director and writer, and its executive board’s national secretary.

Sawyers Belk earned her bachelor’s degree from Emory & Henry College and continues to serve on the College’s Board of Trustees where she has been instrumental in assisting the College in managing its diversity and inclusion matters. She earned a master of arts in history from East Tennessee State University and graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law.