Cade Parian
Cade Parian is a senior neutral who mediates cases including automobile, medical malpractice, premises liability, property, and trucking, among others. He joined the Miles Mediation & Arbitration panel in February 2022 after serving for a year on the ADR OnDemand panel, quickly establishing himself as a go-to neutral in the southeastern United States.
Cade’s reputation amongst attorneys and judges throughout the southeast for being a “straight shooter” helped his mediation practice take off. Although he has spent the past 11 years representing plaintiffs in personal injury matters, he brings a wide range of experiences and perspectives to helping parties resolve their disputes no matter the subject matter.
A fourth generation west Georgian, Cade’s roots run deep along the banks of the Chattahoochee River. Cade has an active law practice with offices in Bremen, Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia, and Birmingham, Alabama. His practice has been wide-ranging since he was first admitted to the bar, and he has tried hundreds of civil cases to verdict in his career.
Cade’s legal career began at a large civil litigation defense firm in Birmingham, Alabama where he traveled across the country representing automobile and recreational vehicle manufacturers. The mentoring he received at this law firm came from some of the best civil defense lawyers in America. This was where Cade was first introduced to the mediation process. Observing the delicate “push and pull” style of different mediators across the country in high-stakes litigation planted the thought, “maybe there is a better way to resolve conflict than beating each other bloody in a courtroom?”
Cade’s career then took a turn homeward to Carrollton, Georgia. Settling back down in the Eastern time zone, his “small town” law career was anything but general practice. The early years of his practice in west Georgia were spent representing the nation’s largest real estate title insurance company and their insureds during the Great Recession. The disputes were wide-ranging, and the money on the line was big.
The economic crash caused multiple Georgia banks to fail. With bank failures, came mountains of disputes about the validity of loan documents and property valuations. It was the Wild West (pun intended) of trials. Cade estimates that he represented over 500 people and companies during this time against large banks tasked with taking over the smaller failed banks by FDIC. He conducted hundreds of jury and non-jury trials as lead counsel handling contract law, bankruptcy law, construction law, and real estate law cases.
Cade has also represented municipalities including the cities of Carrollton, Temple, and Whitesburg, Georgia. In addition, he has represented trade organizations and companies in the halls of the Georgia Capitol.
To learn more about Cade, read his spotlight.
Admitted to Practice
- Georgia, 2008
- Alabama, 2006
- 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
- US District Court, Northern District of Georgia
- US District Court, Northern District of Alabama
Education
- Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law, Juris Doctor, 2006
- University of West Georgia (which he affectionately calls “The Harvard of the South”), Bachelor’s in Business Administration (marketing), 2000