Practice Profile: Johnson works in business litigation, specializing in real estate and construction law. He represents developers, hoteliers, real estate investors, builders, general contractors and technology companies at Knight Johnson. He began his firm in 2011 at the age of 33, working out of his house to save money.

“James' legal mind is one of the best I've seen,” said Bryan M. Knight, who began the firm with Johnson.

In 2015, Johnson obtained a jury verdict of $7.1 million in the Superior Court of Gwinnett County, where he represented a real estate developer suing a title company for environmental contamination.