Anna A. Orkins
Practice Areas
Estate Planning and Administration
Real Estate
Legal Assistant
Laurie Dennis
Paralegal
Jamie Leech-Ryal
ATTORNEY
Anna A. Orkins
After years of practicing law in the areas of wills, trusts, and estates, Anna Adams Orkins joined the firm’s estate planning and probate section in January of 2019. A partner in the firm, she continues to focus her practice on estate planning and probate, including the preparation of wills and trusts, incapacity planning, probate and administration, guardianships, conservatorships, and real estate issues. Prior to joining Stewart, Melvin & Frost, Anna was an attorney for several years at an estate planning law firm in Roswell, before opening her own estate planning and probate practice
Professional and Community Recognition
Anna received her Juris Doctor from Georgia State University College of Law. While attending law school, she was the Real Estate Graduate Research Assistant for Georgia State University Office of Legal Affairs. Anna also served as Associate Editor for Georgia State University Law Review and authored the legislative history of House Bill 397, which is published in Georgia State University Law Review’s Peach Sheets. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English, cum laude, from the University of Georgia. While a student at the University of Georgia, she studied abroad in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she examined conflict resolution.
Anna is a member of the Gainesville-Northeastern Bar Association, the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers, the Fiduciary Law section of the State Bar of Georgia, and the Real Property, Trust, and Estate Law section of the American Bar Association. A native of Dahlonega, she is passionate about her community, where she currently serves on the Board of Directors for Lumpkin Literacy.
IN THE NEWS
Anna Orkins
Stewart, Melvin & Frost’s Anna Adams Orkins Named to ‘Georgia Super Lawyers’ List
Stewart, Melvin & Frost attorney Anna Adams Orkins has been named a 2021 Georgia Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine. The Rising Stars list recognizes