George's practice has focused on executive compensation, ESOP and other stock ownership plan issues, the investment and financial aspects of benefit plans, and controversy work involving compensation and benefit arrangements. He has also continued to work with issues arising under traditional pension and profit-sharing plans. Generally, his practice embraces both planning and resolving disputes with the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor or plan participants and has involved representation of executive officers as well as major corporations.

George has spoken and written extensively on employee benefit topics and has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America and similar publications for well over a decade. He served as the Chair of the American Bar Association Business Law Section's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Committee from 1988 to 1992 and as Co-Chair of the Annual ABA National Institute on Executive Compensation from 1987 to 1993. He is also a former Chair of the ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits (a select committee that coordinates the employee benefits activities of six sections of the ABA) and was selected as a Charter Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.

Prior to joining the firm, George clerked for Judge John Godbold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He also served from 1978 to 1980 as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.

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