Melvin L. Hewitt, Jr. has been a member of the Georgia Bar since 1985. After completing four years of active duty in the United States Navy, Mr. Hewitt attended college at Lakeland and later Kent State University. He spent the next six years in public law enforcement serving in the uniformed patrol division, the detective bureau and undercover narcotics investigations.
Mr. Hewitt left public law enforcement and entered the corporate world in 1974 where he spent the next seventeen years in the private security industry. Mr. Hewitt held positions in middle and upper management to include district, regional and operational vice president positions and was ultimately named president of Globe Security Systems, Inc., a publically-held, private security firm with over thirteen thousand employees and over one hundred offices in the United States and Europe. Mr. Hewitt left corporate America in 1989 and, along with his wife and partner, Harriet Isenberg, opened a private law practice in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mr. Hewitt represents victims of serious assaults and batteries, sexual assault, child molestation, and families of murder victims. He is an active member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Sandy Springs Bar Association, the American Association of Justice (formerly the "Trial Lawyers of America"), the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association (GTLA), the National Crime Victim Bar Association (NCVBA), the National Organization for Victims of Crime (NOVA), and the Lawyer's Club of Atlanta. Mr. Hewitt is a frequent speaker at NOVA, NCVBA and GTLA functions. He has appeared on television and radio programs speaking on issues of negligent security and civil justice for crime victims, and has published several articles relating to negligent security and crime victim issues in Trial Magazine, Calendar Call and The Connection.
