Shelby Grubbs

Managing member in the Atlanta, Georgia, USA office, Miller & Martin

Managing member in the Atlanta, Georgia, USA office of Miller & Martin, PLLC, Shelby Grubbs works as an advocate, mediator and special master in commercial disputes. He serves as lead counsel in arbitrations and litigations, including class litigations, and often coordinates parallel proceedings in overseas jurisdictions. 

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and he is registered as a panellist for the American Arbitration Association, the CPR (International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution), International Centre for Dispute Resolution and International Chamber of Commerce. From 2014–2017, he was executive director at the Atlanta Center for International Arbitration and Mediation (ACIAM), an affiliate of the Georgia State University (GSU) College of Law, and helped establish the ACIAM hearing facility. 

He teaches international commercial arbitration at Emory Law School in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is a frequent continuing education speaker and has lectured at Duke University Law School (Durham, North Carolina, USA), Emory Law School (Atlanta, Georgia, USA), the University of Memphis Law School (Memphis, Tennessee, USA) and the University of Tennessee College of Law (Knoxville, Tennessee, USA) and at Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, among other places. He coaches the Georgia State Vis Moot team. He is a founding member of AtlAS, the Atlanta International Arbitration Society, currently serving as its Secretary. He is a former Chair of the Litigation Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Section of the World Law Group and edited International Civil Procedure (Kluwer 2004) comparing civil procedure in 33 jurisdictions.