Sunne & LaBouff - Attorneys at Law

Celia Sunne has been practicing law since 1989. She first practiced in Florida and then relocated to Atlanta, Georgia where she worked for the law firm of Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers. In her first several years of practicing law she defended insurance companies in workers’ compensation claims. While once called “a firecracker” by one of the senior partners, she found that she had little passion for defending the insurance companies against the injured workers.

Realizing that her sympathies were aligned with helping the injured worker, she left Swift, Currie in 1992 and began representing the injured in workers’ compensation and personal injury claims. Ms. Sunne worked for the high-profile personal injury firm of Tillman & Associates until 1999, when she decided to leave in order to open her own practice.

She and her current partner, John Paul LaBouff, found that they shared a similar philosophy about how best to represent the injured worker. In October, 1999 they formed Sunne & LaBouff and have continued to practice exclusively in the area of workers’ compensation, in a manner that remains congruent with their personal philosophies.

Ms. Sunne is a past Board member of the Workers’ Compensation section of the Atlanta Bar and is involved in committee work for the Women In The Profession section of the Atlanta Bar. She is also a member of the International Society of Holistic Lawyers.

John Paul LaBouff graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He received his law degree from Santa Clara University, in Santa Clara, California. While in law school he published a paper in the Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal about the constitutionality of choosing unproven medical treatment.

John Paul practiced in California until moving to Atlanta in 1995. He has practiced in the area of workers’ compensation and personal injury since graduating from law school in 1992.

Mr. LaBouff is a member of the Atlanta Bar Association and past President of its Sole Practitioner/Small Firm section.